Green Man Interviews: Alabaster DePlume
May 07, 2020
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Alabaster DePlume has a softness of saxophone tone. He also has a hardness of poetic intent. These divergent aspects of this multi-instrumentalist, London-living bon vivant can be heard on an impressive pair of recent releases. To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (International Anthem Recording Co.) finds DePlume at his most introspective, making music that sounds like an Ennio Morricone soundtracking for the placid moments in an epic martial arts movie, his tenor saxophone issuing breathy ornamentations, with a flute-like sensitivity, partnered by piano, guitar, cello, and faint synth-striations... [ read more ]
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