Alabaster DePlume

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Come With Fierce Grace is an album made of authentic and unstipulated – yet welcomed – human interaction. It is for the most part an album of instrumentals, with exception of a few vocal features by Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba), Falle Nioke, and Donna Thompson.

However the instrumentals on this album are much more embryonic and unfiltered than the lush orchestrations heard on Alabaster’s breakout 2020 album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1. Come With Fierce Grace is perhaps the most raw and candid portrait of Alabaster’s creative compositional process we’ve yet to hear, as he’s captured vividly in the room with his collaborators – stretching, exploring, working to deepen and expand the emotions underlying his melodic and poetic frameworks.

PERSONNEL:

• Alabaster DePlume – (tenor sax, guitar, synths and voice)
• Falle Nioke – (voice, percussion)
• Rozi Plain – (guitar)
• Sarathy Korwar – (drums, tabla)
• Tom Skinner – (drums)
• Kenichi Iwasa – (percussion)
• James Howard – (guitar)
• Tom Herbert – (double bass)
• Natalie Pela – (voice)
• Rosa Slade – (voice)
• Elly Condron – (voice)
• Luisa Gerstein – (voice)
• Matt Webb – (double bass)
• Michael Chestnutt – (synths)
• Ursula Russell – (drums)
• Conrad Singh – (guitar)
• Hannah Miller – (cello and voice)
• Donna Thompson – (voice)
• Matthew Bourne – (piano)
• Momoko Gill – (lead vocal)
• Ruth Goller – (bass)

TRACKS:

• 01. Sibomandi (feat. Falle Nioke)
• 02. What Can It Take
• 03. To That Voice And Say
• 04. Greek Honey Slick (feat. Tom Skinner)
• 05. Give Me Away
• 06. Fall On Flowers
• 07. Did You Know (feat. Momoko Gill, MettaShiba)
• 08. Levels of Human
• 09. Not Even Sobbing
• 10. The Best Thing In The World
• 11. Naked Like Water (feat. Donna Thompson)
• 12. Broken Again