As the feet touch the ground

Taken from the forthcoming PostMap release - a printed postcard, with download code. lostmap.com/postcard-shop

Lost Map Records are delighted to announce new material by London and Manchester based spoken word artist, writer and saxophonist Angus Fairbairn AKA Alabaster dePlume. A PostMap postcard single features a remix of ‘What Do We Want’ by Teleman drummer Hiro Ama, plus a version of ‘Who Are You Asking For’ recorded live at the Total Refreshment Centre in London as part of Alabaster’s monthly development residency PEACH. Both tracks will be included on a bonus disc set to be packaged with a deluxe repressing of the wonderfully uncategorisable album The Corner of a Sphere, which is set for release February 1, 2019, after the original pressing quickly sold-out on vinyl following its release in May. Alabaster dePlume is touring widely in coming months, including a newly announced headline show at Hangar in London on Saturday, February 2 – his biggest headline show to date. 

As Alabaster explains, ‘What Do We Want’ is a song about “our refusal to include people from disadvantaged backgrounds in our society, while celebrating competitive accumulation of wealth… which implies that there is something we all want, that’s better than our general wellbeing, better than one-another. What is it?” The track’s theme about society-at-large’s fear of immigration, and refugees, is reflected in the artwork, a retelling of the poem as a sinister, bureaucratic government form.


* LIVE DATES *
THU, OCT 18-FRI, OCT 19 @ JAZZ & THE CITY, SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
SAT, OCT 20 @ GIB LAUT FESTIVAL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
THU, OCT 25 @ KALTERN POP, SOUTH TIROL, ITALY
SAT, OCT 27 @ ATELIER 201, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
FRI, NOV 9 @ KIN, ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL
SAT, NOV 10 @ LE GUESS WHO? FESTIVAL, UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
SAT, DEC 1 @ WEST HILL HALL, BRIGHTON
SAT, DEC 8 @ PYMÉ THEATRE, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
SAT, FEB 2 @ HANGAR, LONDON

Alabaster dePlume - 'What Do We Want' (Hiro Ama remix)

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