Alabaster DePlume's Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem /// 7” flexi disc + digital /// LIVE in past & present
Alabaster DePlume
Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem
7" Flexi Disc + digi double single out May 19th
Today we're happy to share new music by composer, saxophonist, poet, and inspiration-to-many, Alabaster DePlume.
"Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem" is DePlume’s first new single in over a year, following his critically acclaimed 2xLP GOLD – which was listed as one of the "Best Albums of 2022" by Pitchfork, NPR Music, and many others, and was named by Gilles Peterson as his BBC 6Music Album of The Year.
((( photo by Julia Foster )))
Composed live in a Vienna soundcheck, “Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem" was recorded in London between the grueling demands of a ruthlessly creative tour following the release of GOLD. Leading with a confident charge of swirling saxophone, Alabaster is joined by what he calls “one of the most creative yet resilient groups I’ve put together” - Rozi Plain on bass, drummer Momoko Gill and Conrad Singh on guitar - building into a triumphant four-minute crescendo as a homage to everyone 'getting away with it' – “it” being, simply, life.
As Alabaster says, in his own words: “Even this very second, passing your eyes over these words, is a victory. Breathing, you are victorious. Childishly standing with my flag and my anthem of "I'm alive" I'm victorious. See inside, how you have your own permission, to be. Celebrated or not by others, in one moment, always, or never. You know you are here and you know this is a victory. We can always be more ourselves, and we can always be less so. But there is no ceremony we must wait for, no test, no judgement, before we can sing our victory anthem.”
Following the digital release, the single will also be available as a 7” flexi disc with artwork from Raimund Wong on May 19th, accompanied by a new digital-only track, “Child Playing In Forbidden Ruins,” which can be unlocked via an interactive website accessed from the flexi disc.
Alabaster DePlume LIVE ...in the past...
Alabaster gave a special performance on the opening night of Le Guess Who?'s 15th Anniversary Edition, joined on stage by all manner of family (Jeff Parker on guitar, Asher Gamedze on drums, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti on vocals, Raphael Desmarets on guitar, and Ruth Goller on bass), and the festival was wise to document the set in top high quality video.
We've compiled a youtube playlist of some of our favorite live captures of Alabaster's band(s), starting with the beautiful video from the Tivoli at Le Guess Who
Alabaster DePlume LIVE ...in the future...
April 28 - La Triennale di Milano, Italy
May 12 - Jazz, Berlin, Germany
May 24 - The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, UK
May 27 - Jazz à Liège, Liège, Belgium
Jun 10 - Waking Life, Crato, Portugal
July 7 - North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
July 14 - Boomtown, Ghent, Belgium
July 15 - Paris Jazz, France
August 8 - Howling Festival, Eigg, Scotland
August 11 - We Out Here, Wimborne St Giles, UK
August 19 - Stowaway Festival, Buckingham, UK
August 20 - Greenman Festival, UK
((( photo by Chris Almeida )))
***also available***
IARC0050
Alabaster DePlume - GOLD
2xLP, CD, Digital album
"[DePlume] delivers a serene reminder of what matters most" - Pitchfork
"DePlume is a fixture on the London avant-jazz scene whose greatest value is openness" - NPR
"He’s a garrulous, heart-on-sleeve rabble-rouser, an anti-cynic keen to reduce the fourth wall to rubble." - The Observer
Deluxe Double 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.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
GOLD is also available on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack), and Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as listed above). 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!!!
