Alabaster DePlume Announces US & EU Dates & Shares "Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins"

ALABASTER DEPLUME SHARES UPCOMING TOUR DATES
INCLUDING FOUR SHOWS IN SUPPORT OF BON IVER
"CHILD PLAYING IN THE FORBIDDEN RUINS" OUT NOW VIA INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM 
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"upbeat and tentatively triumphant" - Stereogum
"Alabaster has done it again" - Gilles Peterson
"[DePlume] delivers a serene reminder of what matters most" - Pitchfork
"DePlume is a fixture on the London avant-jazz scene whose greatest value is openness" - NPR 
"He’s a garrulous, heart-on-sleeve rabble-rouser, an anti-cynic keen to reduce the fourth wall to rubble." 
- The Observer

photo by Chris Almeida 

UK & EU DATES
24 May 2023 - Falmouth, UK @ Cornish Bank - Tickets
25 May 2023 - Stroud, UK @ Jazz Stroud - Tickets
27 May 2023 - Liege, Belgium @ Jazz a Liege - Tickets
6 Jun 2023 - Tilburg, The Netherlands @ 013 Poppodium [supporting Bon Iver] - Tickets
10 Jun 2023 - Alentejo, Portugal @ Waking Life - Tickets
14 Jun 2023 - Vienna, Austria @ Open Air Arena Wien [supporting Bon Iver] - Tickets
15 Jun 2023 - Zurich, Switzerland @ The Hall [supporting Bon Iver] - Tickets
19 Jun 2023 - Bonn, Germany @ Kunst!Rasen [supporting Bon Iver] - Tickets
23 Jun 2023 - Somerset, UK @ Park Stage, Glastonbury
7 Jul 2023 - Rotterdam, The Netherlanda @ North Sea Jazz - Tickets
9 Jul 2023 - Lausanne, Switzerland @ Festival de la Cité
14 Jul 2023 - Ghent, Belgium @ Boomtown - Tickets
15 Jul 2023 - Paris, France @ Paris Jazz - Tickets
5 Aug 2023 - Eigg, Scotland @ Howlin' Fling - Tickets
11 Aug 2023 - Dorset, UK @ We Out Here - Tickets
19 Aug 2023 - Buckinghamshire, UK @ Stowaway - Tickets
20 Aug 2023 - Brecon Beacons, Wales @ GreenMan - Tickets
10-Nov-2023 - London, UK @ KOKO, Pitchfork Music Festival

US DATES
26 Aug 2023 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Getty - Tickets
27 Aug 2023 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon - Tickets
29 Aug 2023 - San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop -Tickets
30 Aug 2023 - Ojai, CA @ Deer Lodge - Tickets
1 Sep 2023 - Modesto, CA @ The Speakeasy at Greens on Tenth - Tickets
2 Sep 2023 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
5 Sep 2023 - Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall - Tickets
6 Sep 2023 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
8 Sep 2023 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux - Tickets
10 Sep 2023 - Denver, CO @ Ophelia's
15 Sep 2023 - Chicago, IL @ Co-Prosperity Sphere - Tickets
16 Sep 2023 - Chicago, IL @ Co-Prosperity Sphere - Tickets
17 Sep 2023 - Toronto, ON @ Rivoli - Tickets
18 Sep 2023 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz - Tickets
22 Sep 2023 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Hall - Tickets

ABOUT ALABASTER DEPLUME

Today, composer, saxophonist, poet and inspiration-to-many Alabaster DePlume shares his touring schedule for spring and summer 2023, including a few dates supporting Bon Iver in the UK. On Friday, DePlume’s will releease the digital-only B side to a new flexidisc release, his first new material in a year since the release of his GOLD album, which was dubbed ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork and described as “a balm of spoken word and spiritual jazz, both strangely uncomfortable and strangely comforting", featured in NPR's Top 20 Albums of 2022, and named by Gilles Peterson as his BBC 6Music Album of The Year. The single will also be available as a 7” flexi disc with artwork from Raimund Wong this Friday, May 19, accompanied by a new digital-only track, “Child Playing In Forbidden Ruins”, which can be unlocked via an interactive website accessed from the flexi disc.

Composed live in a Vienna soundcheck, “Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem" was recorded in London between the gruelling demands of a ruthlessly creative tour following the release of Alabaster DePlume's critically acclaimed album GOLD. Leading with a confident charge of swirling saxophone, Alabaster is joined by what he calls “one of the most creative yet resilient groups I’ve put together” - Rozi Plain on bass, drummer Momoko Gill and Conrad Singh on guitar - building into a triumphant four-minute crescendo as a homage to everyone 'getting away with it' – “it” being, simply, life. As Alabaster says, in his own words: “Even this very second, passing your eyes over these words, is a victory. Breathing, you are victorious. Childishly standing with my flag and my anthem of "I'm alive" I'm victorious. See inside, how you have your own permission, to be. Celebrated or not by others, in one moment, always, or never. You know you are here and you know this is a victory. We can always be more ourselves, and we can always be less so. But there is no ceremony we must wait for, no test, no judgement, before we can sing our victory anthem.”

The B-side, ‘Child Playing in the Forbidden Ruins’, is a result of Alabaster’s ‘live development’ recording style from the session. Like the laughter captured on the opening of side A, this composition is a consequence of the groups’ relationship to music and each other. “Looking inward, we can meet sometimes with parts of ourselves that are in ruins, and seemingly forbidden. But upon giving ourselves agency to be who we are, we can find ourselves like naughty children, who have given ourselves permission, and sneaked into those forbidden places, to find what’s there.”

Alabaster DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. A long-time affiliate of London’s Total Refreshment Centre, DePlume has released albums on Lost Map Records and Chicago label International Anthem, with his most recent album, Gold, widely acclaimed as one of the best jazz records of 2022. Committed to a world of radical care and creative collaboration, Alabaster DePlume is not doing things properly, and this makes him very happy. 

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