A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole - Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl
New album by one of the fiercest new voices in contemporary jazz...

A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole - Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl

Alabaster DePlume

€ 29,95
  • LP
Label
International Anthem Recording Company
Expected release
28 March 2025
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Description

Limited edition "That Was My Garden" 140g color vinyl in heavyweight jacket with glossy photo insert sheet

Across A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole, DePlume’s reflections on healing, dignity, and struggle are communicated through a stirring assemblage of disparate musics: ghostly and ancient folk melodies, groove-anchored maelstroms of swirling folk-jazz, elegant string arrangements that strike a midpoint between Ravel and Gainsbourg (courtesy of Macie Stewart), disembodied voices reconfiguring into the shape of a post-modern Greek chorus, noir atmosphere, and allegoric, troubadouric song. Throughout, DePlume's intimate, confessional croon (a la Donovan or Devendra Banhart) and vibrato-laced tenor saxophone playing (a la Getatchew Mekurya) convey, with a startling humanistic touch, everything from dejected fragility to resolute strength. 

About the album’s title, DePlume writes: “A blade, because a blade is whole, it has forgiven itself, and because it will take a small piece of our opposite, for us to be complete. A blade has marked out these former selves on my hand, a blade made the lines that divine us and the blade is whole. A blade. While I forgive myself, and heal, and lead us in healing. We can only forgive each other once we forgive ourselves. We can only heal each other while we heal ourselves.”

Tracklist

  • 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 Way My Garden

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