The London based musician and poet shares exclusive footage of a 2021 live performance featuring tracks from his latest album GOLD
“If someone asks me I tell them that I make live development experimental pop,” Alabaster DePlume tells Daniel Spicer in The Wire 457. Saxophonist, composer and poet DePlume – real name Gus Fairbairn – fuses songwriting, improvisation and spoken word within sprawling live sets. “I want to bring theatrical things, spoken things, poetic things to people who came for music – especially if I can get it to people who would never have gone to find it,” he continues. On stage, DePlume is often accompanied by musicians who, like himself, frequent the North London recording studio and rehearsal space Total Refreshment Centre, where he found a welcoming community after moving south from Manchester to London.
In this exclusive footage of a performance at London Colour Factory in 2021, DePlume performs three songs with a full band, including Comet Is Coming synthesizer player Danalogue, plus drummers Ursula Russell and Aletta Verwoerd, guitarist Conrad Singh, vocalist Donna Thompson and bassist Rosetta Carr. Beginning with “Don’t Forget You’re Precious” and “People: What’s The Difference” from his latest album GOLD, DePlume eventually arrives at the track “Visit Croatia”, from an EP released in 2020.
Read Daniel Spicer's full interview with DePlume in The Wire 457. Wire subscribers can also read the article via the digital archive.
GOLD is released by International Anthem. DePlume will perform at London Village Underground on 1 May.
