Alabaster Deplume To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol.1 Vinyl LP 2020
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£28.99
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Original price
£28.99
Original price
£28.99
£28.99
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£28.99
Current price
£28.99
Cat no. IARC30LP
Tracklist:
1. Visit Croatia
2. What's Missing
3. Song of the Foundling
4. Whisky Story Time
5. Not Now, Jesus
6. If You're Sure You Want to
7. The Lucky Ones (With Danalogue)
8. Why, Buzzardman, Why
9. Not My Ask
10. Turpentine
11. I Hope
To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 is titled in tribute to Cy Lewis and Lee ‘Shredder’ Bowman, whom Alabaster met while working for Ordinary Lives, a charity in Manchester which supports people with disabilities to live in their own homes and enjoy fulfilling lives. As an exercise in helping the two men learn to socialise better, Alabaster would devise and sing improvised vocal melodies with them, recording their impromptu sessions on his phone. He later began to use these scratch improvisations as templates for fully-realised recordings.
“The music of To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 contains naturally elegant orchestration wrapped around something visceral and primordial,” writes journalist and critic Emma Warren, author of the book Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre, in an evocative new bio of Alabaster dePlume enclosed with this press release (link below). “Swirled inside the 11 pieces are shades of Japanese Min’yo folk, the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human ‘ancient music’ that sat underneath Arthur Russell’s melodies on ‘First Thought, Best Thought’. The music is filled with space, inspired, he says, by computer games and Japanese animation, particularly Joe Hisaishi’s soundtrack for Studio Ghibli’s ‘Castle In The Sky’.
“Named in honour of my original collaborators,” says Alabaster dePlume, “the two men I was employed to support, who taught me the best things I know. Cy, a percussionist and un-guessable alto, sign-language inventor and chef, owned the car we drove around while chanting out what became some of the best of these melodies. Lee, the famous rascal, the great showman of villainy, hero of dissent and one of the bravest men I know, curated this material, even as it was written, through his personal requirements of what he found helpful, music-wise, to stay at least a little bit calm, in this world of demands, threats and madness.
1. Visit Croatia
2. What's Missing
3. Song of the Foundling
4. Whisky Story Time
5. Not Now, Jesus
6. If You're Sure You Want to
7. The Lucky Ones (With Danalogue)
8. Why, Buzzardman, Why
9. Not My Ask
10. Turpentine
11. I Hope
To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 is titled in tribute to Cy Lewis and Lee ‘Shredder’ Bowman, whom Alabaster met while working for Ordinary Lives, a charity in Manchester which supports people with disabilities to live in their own homes and enjoy fulfilling lives. As an exercise in helping the two men learn to socialise better, Alabaster would devise and sing improvised vocal melodies with them, recording their impromptu sessions on his phone. He later began to use these scratch improvisations as templates for fully-realised recordings.
“The music of To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 contains naturally elegant orchestration wrapped around something visceral and primordial,” writes journalist and critic Emma Warren, author of the book Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre, in an evocative new bio of Alabaster dePlume enclosed with this press release (link below). “Swirled inside the 11 pieces are shades of Japanese Min’yo folk, the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human ‘ancient music’ that sat underneath Arthur Russell’s melodies on ‘First Thought, Best Thought’. The music is filled with space, inspired, he says, by computer games and Japanese animation, particularly Joe Hisaishi’s soundtrack for Studio Ghibli’s ‘Castle In The Sky’.
“Named in honour of my original collaborators,” says Alabaster dePlume, “the two men I was employed to support, who taught me the best things I know. Cy, a percussionist and un-guessable alto, sign-language inventor and chef, owned the car we drove around while chanting out what became some of the best of these melodies. Lee, the famous rascal, the great showman of villainy, hero of dissent and one of the bravest men I know, curated this material, even as it was written, through his personal requirements of what he found helpful, music-wise, to stay at least a little bit calm, in this world of demands, threats and madness.