Alabaster DePlume A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole

• Alabaster DePlume – Oh My Actual Days
• Alabaster DePlume – Invincibility

• 1. Oh My Actual Days
• 2. Thank You My Pain
• 3. Invincibility
• 4. Form a V
• 5. A Paper Man
• 6. Who Are You Telling, Gus
• 7. Prayer For My Sovereign Dignity
• 8. Kuzushi
• 9. Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem
• 10. Too True
• 11. That Was My Garden

A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole is the latest album from London-based composer-poet-activist-improviser Alabaster DePlume, his first major work following 2022’s GOLD and 2020's To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol 1.

The 11-song album covers all of DePlume’s musical touchstones: lush and gentle instrumentals informed by ghostly ancient folk melodies; groove-focused rhythm explorations as a bed for self-searching spoken declamations; sweeping and beautiful string arrangements (in this case by Macie Stewart) set against his trademark vibrato-infused tenor sax whispermoan.