Plain was a six, then five and now is a four-piece alternative rock band based in Lugano, Switzerland as last week Andy (guitar) left the band to follow his audio engineer passion.
The different musical backgrounds of each member are the essence of this blend of musical flavours winking to a British art rock approach.
The band has released their debut LP album “
Different Not Strange” in spring 2008. Written, produced and performed by Plain with the collaboration of both
Chris Sheldon (Oceansize, Foo Fighters, Biffy Clyro, Roger Waters, …) for the mixing and
Kevin Metcalfe (The Soundmasters, London) for the mastering, this debut album is hard to define or label because of the quirky sounds produced from this unusual combination of talents and personalities.
Since the release in 2005 of their first five tracks self-produced promo EP, still available in online stores and reviewed favorably by press, local newspapers and online international webzines, Plain have started performing at some of the most significant Swiss venues, also playing support to groups from the international music scene and working with local artists, catching the attention of the public and the media in Switzerland, Europe and the United States.
Eclectic musicians such as
Pino Di Benedetto (drums),
Nick Poretti (lead voice),
Stefano Fanzini (bass) and
Gianmaria Pisino (keyboards) are the core and engine of this band, giving energy and dynamism during their live shows as well as in the recorded product.
A new Plain website
www.plainonline.com has been released in order to be more consistent with the new album image and band line-up: be sure to visit it to sign up on their e-mail list for advance notice on band activities and find out about online album availability.
If you like you can take a look at
www.myspace.com/plainonline to read comments from the fans.
Remeber to check your favorite online record store to pick up your copy of “
Different Not Strange".
Finally our debut album "Different Not Strange" is available to be downloaded in main online stores!
Here are some examples:
Napster |
iTunes |
eMusic |
Amazon |
Wippit |
Musicload |
Audio Lunchbox |
Exlibris and many more...
*** due to serious problems experienced by our digital distributor with its releases some of the provided links may not work properly
our album should be available again very soon... hopefully! ***
Soon we're going to sell our digipack CD through both MySpace and Purevolume pages and our official website.
To the ones who'd like to have in their hands something more than their iPods... stay tuned and we'll keep you informed about.
Thank you so much for having waited so long and for your constant support.
Online Now!
