To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1, by Alabaster dePlume

To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1

by Alabaster dePlume

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Sea Foam This album reignites my long love of saxophone with beautiful colours and a gorgeous transcendental feeling.

Adam Littlefield I played Whisky Story Time for my colleagues when we were all tired and needed a break last year. For that moment of peace and calm alone, it's one of those songs that now plays in the quiet grooves of my brain when I am tired and need a break. Favorite track: Whisky Story Time.

Ursula's Crow How comforting is this? The warmth of the reed just as winter bites - such a generous record. Favorite track: Why, Buzzardman, Why.

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1.	Visit Croatia 04:52	buy track
2.	What's Missing 05:05	buy track
3.	Song Of The Foundling 02:55	buy track
4.	Whisky Story Time 02:19	buy track
5.	Not Now Jesus 03:40	buy track
6.	If You're Sure You Want To 03:49	buy track
7.	The Lucky Ones (feat. Danalogue) 06:40	buy track
8.	Why, Buzzardman, Why 03:52	buy track
9.	Not My Ask 03:31	buy track
10.	Turpentine 02:26	buy track
11.	I Hope 05:27	buy track

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Lost Map in collaboration with Chicago-based avant-jazz label International Anthem and the Total Refreshment Centre in London is proud to announce the forthcoming new album by Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator Angus Fairbairn, AKA Alabaster dePlume. To Cy & Lee Instrumentals Vol. 1 will be released on 12” vinyl and via digital services on February 28, 2020.

The follow-up to Alabaster’s critically-acclaimed 2018 album The Corner of a Sphere, it draws together 11 different instrumental tracks, some old and some brand new, recorded over eight years in cities around the UK together with a coterie of collaborators, including Dan ‘Danalogue’ Leavers of The Comet Is Coming and Sarathy Korwar. A gently uplifting celebration of connectedness, community and that special way in which music can break down barriers, transcend language and empower expressions of the otherwise inexpressible, it’s a record drenched in pure, righteous humanity.

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.

You can pre-order the süper-limited edition PURPLE vinyl edition, from Lost Map, for £18.

CD edition also available, at £12.

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