Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace (Vinyl)
Come With Fierce Grace is an album made of authentic and unstipulated – yet welcomed – human interaction. It is for the most part an album of instrumentals, with exception of a few vocal features by Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba), Falle Nioke, and Donna Thompson. However the instrumentals on this album are much more embryonic and unfiltered than the lush orchestrations heard on Alabaster’s breakout 2020 album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1. Come With Fierce Grace is perhaps the most raw and candid portrait of Alabaster’s creative compositional process we’ve yet to hear, as he’s captured vividly in the room with his collaborators – stretching, exploring, working to deepen and expand the emotions underlying his melodic and poetic frameworks.
Regarding the process, Alabaster cites a similarity to how elements in nature contribute to shared work and beauty without a collective motive – a bee’s own motives result in the delivery of pollen. As he says: “The great thing wants to happen, let us allow it to happen.”
Regarding the origin of the album’s name: On his first trip to perform in the US in March 2022, Alabaster collected messages from individuals, as he asked them if there is anything they would like him to share with his audiences. One message (from a person who preferred to remain anonymous) asked Alabaster to encourage people to “come with fierce grace.”
Tracklist
1. Sibomandi (feat. Falle Nioke) (02:28)
2. What Can It Take (02:16)
3. To That Voice And Say (02:44)
4. Greek Honey Slick (feat. Tom Skinner) (04:33)
5. Give Me Away (03:13)
6. Fall On Flowers (04:53)
7. Did You Know (feat. Momoko Gill & MettaShiba) (03:54)
8. Levels Of Human (01:52)
9. Not Even Sobbing (02:46)
10. The Best Thing In The World (04:40)
11. Naked Like Water (feat. Donna Thompson) (02:54)
12. Broken Again (05:55)
Cat no: IARC0070LP
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