GOLD

Description

GOLD, the follow-up to Alabaster DePlume's widely acclaimed 2020 cinematic instrumental LP, To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1, introduces the world to the artist’s true self. Though now known worldwide, DePlume is mostly known to ardent fans in his home region of London as an outspoken poet and speaker, beloved for his inspirational words and songs of vulnerability, humanity and courage. GOLD is a sprawling double album that finds DePlume beautifully expressing both sides of his artistic character: (1) a singer and songwriter who invokes the melodic crooning of Donovan as much as Devendra Banhart or Syd Barrett, whose tunes are almost like mini-sermons, full of existential comedy and spiritual illumination; and (2) a brilliant composer of simple, soothing, and viscerally nourishing instrumental melodies, with a gift for extending them into fearless collective improvisations, led by a delicate and distinguished saxophone sound that evokes the soaring sweetness of the great Ethiopian Getatchew Mekurya. GOLD comes in a deluxe gold foil-printed LP sleeve, with a double-sided insert sheet, green and gold obi strip, and dome-patterned inner sleeves.