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Alabaster DePlume: Come With Fierce Grace

On September 8, 2023, “International Anthem Recording Company” label released “Come with Fierce Grace”, the sixth Alabaster DePlume studio album. It was recorded in two weeks period, in improvised sessions that DePlume later formed into songs, performing with musicians who were not given music before recording and not allowed to listen to the results.

 Personnel:

  • Alabaster DePlume – voice, tenor saxophone, guitar, synth, arrangements
  • Momoko Gill – lead vocals
  • Hannah Miller – voice, cello
  • Donna Thompson, Elly Condron, Luisa Gerstein, Natalie Pela, Rosa Slade – voice
  • Falle Nioke – voice, percussion
  • Conrad Singh, James Howard, Rozi Plain – guitar
  • Matthew Bourne – piano
  • Michael Chestnutt – synth
  • Matt Webb, Tom Herbert – double bass
  • Ruth Goller – bass
  • Tom Skinner, Ursula Russell – drums
  • Sarathy Korwar – drums, tabla
  • Kenichi Iwasa – percussion
  • Kristian Craig Robinson – recording
  • Dave Vettraino – mixing
  • David Allen – mastering
  • Raimond Wong – artwork
  • Craig Hansen – layout
  • Chris Almeida – photography

Track listing:

  1. Sibomandi
  2. What Can It Take
  3. To That Voice and Say
  4. Greek Honey Stick
  5. Give Me Away
  6. Fall on Flowers
  7. Did You Know
  8. Levels of Human
  9. Not Even Sobbing
  10. The Best Thing in the World
  11. Naked Like Water
  12. Broken Again

Sarathy Korwar: Kalak

On November 11, 2022, “The Leaf Label” released “Kalak”, fourth Sarathy Korwar studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Real World Studios”, and was produced by Photay.

Personnel:

  • Sarathy Korwar – vocals, drums, percussion, electronics, photography
  • Photay – vocals, synthesizer, drum programming, arrangements, mixing
  • Alistair MacSween – vocals, synthesizer
  • Danalogue – synthesizer
  • Magnus Mehta – percussion
  • Tamar Osborn – vocals, baritone saxophone, flute, electronics
  • Rohini Kharkar, Tushar Menon – vocals
  • Fabrice Bourgelle – vocals, photography
  • Oli Jacobs, Oli Middleton – engineer
  • Stefan Betke – mastering
  • Sijya Gupta – artwork, layout

Track listing:

  1. A Recipe to Cure Historical Amnesia
  2. To Remember
  3. Utopia Is a Colonial Project
  4. Back in the Day, Things Were Not Always Simpler
  5. The Past Is Not Only Behind Us, But Ahead of Us
  6. Kal Means Yesterday and Tomorrow
  7. Remember Begum Rokheya
  8. That Clocks Don’t Tell but Make Time
  9. Remember Circles are Better Than Lines
  10. Remember To Look Out for the Signs
  11. KALAK – A Means to An Unend