Credits:

Alabaster Deplume

Description:

When British saxophonist and composer Alabaster DePlume (aka Angus Fairbairn) recorded 2022s double-length GOLD, he and his musicians created a splendidly sonorous double album from joint efforts in spontaneous composition and collective compositional development. Holed up for weeks at Londons Total Refreshment Centre, they celebrated music-making itself as a communal process. The albums sound emerged from focusing on the relationship possibilities among collaborators in the moment. DePlume and company recorded far more material than could be used on GOLD. Following a period of intense touring, he closely listened to the extant material. Compelled, he began assembling that music in new ways — adding, editing, subtracting, recombining, and rearranging. Come with Fierce Grace offers 12 mostly instrumental selections with three vocals cuts with alternating singers who include Guinean percuss