Alabaster DePlume

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Beautifully meditative music from Alabaster DePlume – a set that brings together work from a variety of recorded projects from the past decade or so – finally getting full exposure in this Transatlantic collaboration between Chicago's International Anthem label and London's Total Refreshment Centre! The sound is a great illustration of the genre-crossing modes that have been going on in both scenes – as Alabaster's music is definitely beyond easy description or definition, and comes across in a way that's as personal as it is collaborative – since DePlume works with a whole host of different musicians on the recordings, mixing flute, percussion, strings, keyboards, and other elements together in a way that follows a spiritual legacy from the more spacey side of Alice Coltrane, to the west coast experiments of Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, to the changes taking place on the planet at present. Alabaster plays tenor and guitar, and vocalizes slightly – but never really sings

PERSONNEL:

• Leon Boydon (acoustic guitar)
• Kirsty McGee (bass flute)
• Lorien Edwards (bass guitar)
• Beth Porter, Hannah Miller, Jessica Macdonald, Will Calderbank (cello)
• Sarathy Korwar (drums)
• Phillip Howley, Rick Weedon (percussion)
• Ellis Davies, James Howard (electric guitar)
• Pascal Makonese (mriba)
• Paddy Steer (bass)
• Daniel Inzani (piano)
• John Ellis (piano, clavinet)
• Chestnutt (synthesizer)
• Lorenzo Prati (tenor sax)
• Mikey Kenney, Tim Vincent Smith (violin)
• Alabaster DePlume (tenor sax, vocals)
• Biff Roxby, Donna Thompson (2), Jess Connor (vocals)
• Ríoghnach Connolly (flute)

TRACKS:

• 01. Visit Croatia
• 02. What's Missing
• 03. Song Of The Foundling
• 04. Whiskey Story Time
• 05. Not Now, Jesus
• 06. If You're Sure You Want To
• 07. The Lucky Ones
• 08. Why, Buzzardman
• 09. Not My Ask
• 10. Turpentine
• 11. I Hope