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Alabaster DePlume

GOLD

2xLP / CD / Digital album out April 1st

Preview & Pre-order
on Bandcamp

Today, 2/2/22, we are delighted to share news that London-based poet, singer, saxophonist, orator, friend and inspiration to many ALABASTER DEPLUME (aka the man behind the pandemic panacea that was/is To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1) is BACK with a brand new double LP epic called GOLD.

It will be released on 2xLP, CD, and digitally on April 1st, 2022. We're starting things off with a two-song lead single(s), “Don’t Forget You’re Precious” b/w “The Sound of My Feet on this Earth is a Song To Your Spirit," available to stream & download on all digital platforms today.

Stream the singles
& pre-order the album in all formats here

"DON'T FORGET YOU'RE PRECIOUS" VIDEO

The A-side single “Don’t Forget You’re Precious” is also available today as a powerful music video conceptualized by DePlume and deftly directed by Jordan Copeland.

About the video, DePlume’s camp says: We don’t always realize when we are destroying ourselves. Blindfolded, and dressed as a symbol of oppression, Alabaster reminds us that we are precious, confessing that he ‘forgets sometimes’, as we watch him lead a platoon of children in his own destruction.

Watch the video here.

GOLD, the follow-up to Alabaster DePlume's widely-acclaimed, 2020-released cinematic instrumental LP To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1, introduces the world to the artist’s truest self. That is... though DePlume’s now known across the globe as the saxophonist who created that collection of wonderful, wordless music, he’s most known to fervent fans in his home zone of London, UK, as an outspoken poet and orator, beloved for his inspiring words of encouragement and sing-a-long-able songs about vulnerability, humanity, and courage.

Recorded across 2 weeks at London's legendary Total Refreshment Centre, GOLD is a sprawling double album that finds DePlume expressing both sides of his artistic character beautifully: (1) an articulate singer and songwriter who invokes the melodious crooning of Donovan as much as Devendra Banhart or Syd Barrett, whose tunes are almost like mini-sermons, full of existential comedy and spiritual enlightenment; and (2) a brilliant composer of simple, soothing, and viscerally nourishing instrumental melodies, with a gift for expanding them into intrepid collective improvisations, led by a delicate and distinguished saxophone tone that conjures the fluttery sweetness of Ethiopique woodwind player Getatchew Mekurya.

Read the full story about GOLD,
as written beautifully by Emma Warren,
on our Bandcamp page for the album.

*Deluxe Vinyl Package*

Obsidian Vortex color vinyl

GOLD comes on two 140-gram vinyl LPs (pressed by Pallas in Germany) inside a heavyweight reverse-board gatefold jacket stamped with metallic gold foil (!!!) and flooded black inner pockets, plus a two-sided insert sheet, IARC obi strip, and dome-patterned inner-sleeves.

And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 777 copies of *Obsidian Vortex* color vinyl.

Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!

Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada, North & South America

This album will also be available on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack), on Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as listed above), and for independent retailers only, worldwide, an indie exclusive limited edition color vinyl variant.

Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!

Distribution via !K7 for
Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW

On all the same formats mentioned above, this album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.

If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!