ALABASTER DEPLUME - A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole DON HENLEY and the producer Teo Macero

and the producer Teo Macero then cut them into segments

Equally inspired by vintage sounds from Chicago and Detroit

sonically ambitious yet canonically familiar songs that both propel Ward's reach and satisfy longtime fans

whose propensity for humour always points to some uneasy

and developing a few dozen building blocks

ALABASTER DEPLUME - A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole DON HENLEY and the producer Teo MaceroCD 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 2022s GOLD and 2020's To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol 1. The 11 song album covers all of DePlumes 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