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Alabaster DePlume // To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 LP

Alabaster DePlume // To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 LP

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A record compiled with 3 previously released works by London saxophonist Alabaster De Plume + unreleased songs.Contains 11 exotic meditation jazz songs.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more International Anthem releases available at Tobira. 

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"DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He's a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Center, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and Whilst much of his music contains vocals – often whispered imperatives – this is a collection of instrumentals, drenched in feeling and recorded over four albums and eight earth years in cities now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem's growing family of progressive musical explorationists. across the UK.

The music of "To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1" contains naturally elegant orchestration wrapped around something visceral and primordial. Swirled inside the 11 pieces are shades of Japanese Min'yo folk, Celtic folk, the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human'ancient music' that sat underneath Arthur Russell's melodies on First Thought, Best Thought. The music is filled with space, inspired, he says, by computer games and Japanese animation, particularly Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack for Studio Ghibli's Castle In The Sky.

The record combines new compositions alongside bygone instrumentals and understated lullabies that feel like they've been picked from between the cracks of civilisation. These songs were collected from albums "Copernicus," "The Jester," and "Peach" – under-the- radar records that preceded his critically acclaimed 2019 release The Corner of a Sphere. The new tunes feature Dan'Danalogue' Leavers of The Comet Is Coming and Sarathy Korwar alongside a host of London's finest musicians. "
--Emma Warren, music journalist

Artist: Alabaster DePlume

Label: International Anthem

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A record compiled with 3 previously released works by London saxophonist Alabaster De Plume + unreleased songs.Contains 11 exotic meditation jazz songs.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more International Anthem releases available at Tobira. 

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"DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He's a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Center, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and Whilst much of his music contains vocals – often whispered imperatives – this is a collection of instrumentals, drenched in feeling and recorded over four albums and eight earth years in cities now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem's growing family of progressive musical explorationists. across the UK.

The music of "To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1" contains naturally elegant orchestration wrapped around something visceral and primordial. Swirled inside the 11 pieces are shades of Japanese Min'yo folk, Celtic folk, the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human'ancient music' that sat underneath Arthur Russell's melodies on First Thought, Best Thought. The music is filled with space, inspired, he says, by computer games and Japanese animation, particularly Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack for Studio Ghibli's Castle In The Sky.

The record combines new compositions alongside bygone instrumentals and understated lullabies that feel like they've been picked from between the cracks of civilisation. These songs were collected from albums "Copernicus," "The Jester," and "Peach" – under-the- radar records that preceded his critically acclaimed 2019 release The Corner of a Sphere. The new tunes feature Dan'Danalogue' Leavers of The Comet Is Coming and Sarathy Korwar alongside a host of London's finest musicians. "
--Emma Warren, music journalist

Artist: Alabaster DePlume

Label: International Anthem