7.9
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#5,873
All Time
12
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“It’s tricky to describe the profoundly idiosyncratic approach of Alabaster DePlume without engendering an acute allergic reaction among more cynical audiences. Sample the openness that the artist also known as the Manchester-born, London-based musician and poet Gus Fairbairn applies to all aspects of his art, however, and DePlume’s almost confrontationally positive ethos of empowerment, the healin”
“Angus Fairbairn, the Manchester-born, London-based musician who records under the name Alabaster Deplume, makes music that is extremely hard to classify. His albums feature some of Britain’s top jazz musicians, but you wouldn’t call it jazz. It’s an odd mix of creaky chamber music, clunky post-punk, lo-fi Afrobeat, avant-garde folk music and English whimsy. The self-taught saxophonist plays his te”
“Drawn from the same sessions as 2022’s Gold, the UK jazz poet and saxophonist’s new album counters that record’s opulence with a spare, percussive sound.”
