Alabaster DePlume 
“Peach”
Debt Records
2nd Oct 2015

A peach is a sweet and soft and good thing with a stone in the middle, and this is an album about being a person. Smartphones, analogue tape, valve microphones, computers, group games and a grand banquet were used to create this collection of songs, tunes and monologues, that use a series of contradictions to talk about being alive. 

Long-term collaborators John Ellis (piano) and Paddy Steer (percussion, bass, lapsteel, synth) join Angus Fairbairn (vocal, tenor sax) along with eleven other musicians and nearly a hundred other voices in presenting sounds likened to Ethiopian jazz and Japanese folk music. Scripts and vocal delivery evoke Ivor Cutler, Emo Philips and Leonard Cohen, for this combination of theatre, live-captured music, songs, humour and philosophy.

It is a unique collection, made by unusual means designed around the artistry and conveyance of its many contributors. Created over three years in London and Manchester, it’ll be celebrated in those two towns on the dates below, following its vinyl and digital release on Manchester label Debt Records, on 28th September 2015.

A composer, musician and performer, Alabaster DePlume (Angus Fairbairn) has toured northern Europe, appeared on UK national radio and developed theatre for Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin. His many combined arts projects are based around music, and personal inclusion. In this, his third album, he has employed as many voices as he can, in conveying a method of survival he’s been taught, he says, by everyone he’s met.

Hope grows naturally, like a
dandelion between the bricks.
I feel good…

Manchester launch: 4th October at The Wonder Inn 
London launch: 31st October at The Total Refreshment Centre, Dalston

Personnel:
Will Calderbank – cello
Rioghnach Connolly – flute 
Ellis Davies – electric guitar
Lorien Edwards – bass guitar
John Ellis – pianette, clavinette, piano
Leonie Evans – backing
Angus Fairbairn – vocal, tenor sax, acoustic guitar, yanquin dulcimer, synths
Dominie Hooper – backing 
Philip Howley – drums, percussion
Mikey Kenney – violin 
Pascal Makonese – m’bira
Kirsty McGee – bass flute
Tim Vincent Smith – violin
Paddy Steer – drums, percussion, bass guitar, double bass, synths
Rick Weedon – drums, percussion 
With selected vocal delivery from – Rioghnagh Connolly, Ellis Davies, Julia Foster, Katarzina Jablonska, Sally Jenkinson, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Oliver Conway. 
And with a chorus of attendees of the ‘Excuse Me’ studio feast, 9th September 2014, Antwerp Mansion. Meal by Samuel Buckley.

Engineered by Paddy Steer, John Ellis and Karl Sveinsson. Recorded at Limefield Studios Middleton, Madwaltz Levenshulme, Antwerp Mansion Rusholme and the Total Refreshment Centre Dalston, with additional field recordings at various locations. 
Mastered by George Atkins at 80 Hertz.
Artwork by Liz Greenfield
All songs and scripts written by A. Fairbairn. 

14 - Strange

Al Manfredi, born to a musical family of Italian immigrants in the small SoCal beach town of San Clemente, found regional success with his garage rock band Lost &amp; Found while he was still a teenager. The tragic deaths of two of the band’s members in the late 60s shook Manfredi to his core, and he gave up on the band scene completely, retreating to his family’s music store, and working on music in private, multi-tracking demos of growing prowess on primitive recording equipment.

In 1973 he chose six of his favorite songs and exactingly produced and recorded an album, which he custom-pressed in minute quantities. His dreams of securing a record deal faded, but he spent the rest of his life recording music, surfing, bringing children into the world, and battling alcohol and drug abuse.

This little-known West Coast rock masterpiece was rediscovered celebrated by Acid Archives founder Patrick Lundborg and others around the time that Manfredi died in 1995. This version of the album, overseen by Manfredi’s son, the hip hop producer Exile, and with Manfredi’s story told by Ugly Things’ founder Mike Stax, presents the complete package of an incredible lost and found artist. Contains the album, as originally issued, on side A with unreleased music on side B. Bonus 2nd LP – available only to subscribers – contains alternate takes, demo versions and the two, rare garage rock tracks from the solitary Lost &amp; Found 7" . Extensive, photo-filled booklet documents the history of the band, their mission, and their arc. Download card included, for WAV files, including bonus tracks not available on vinyl.

Al Manfredi

Al Manfredi - Blue Gold

Miss Moral - Benny Sings & Rednose Distrikt

Producer/bassist Petter Eldh's celebrated Koma Saxo returns with a fresh single release on We Jazz Records, June 12. "Koma Mate" is a new look on "Koma Tema" from Koma Saxo's 2019 debut album. The track's anthemic quality remains, but with an extra 10% bangerism added for good measure. On the flip, Eldh invites Jameszoo to tear apart and reassemble Koma Saxo's elements, making for an extra tasty serving of spicy Koma Soup, filled with criss-crossing saxes and odd grooves. Lightning in a bottle, times two.

Koma Mate

Keleketla!

5&1 (feat. Gally Ngoveni, Nono Nkoane, Sibusile Xaba & Thabang Tabane)

Won't Get Better

Won't Get Better (feat. Emma-Jean Thackray)

13 Faces Of Lightning Head - Album Sampler

Where do we go from here 
When the whole world is falling 
Through darkness 
And we 
Can not see the light 
We're falling 
Through darkness 
And we 
Can not see 

Need boost up like Musa 
Your mans up you choose up 
My crew love a true love 
We can’t fuck with you love 
You lose much like you suck 
God damn bruh you do huh 
We old heads with new blood 
No vamp but that true blood 

Truth does flow through us 
No cap I got proof bruh 
You drink the juice up 
I black up you blue hug 
We sing the blues up 
The rapture is soon come 
We bring the new stuff 
And laugh when you do stuff 

Math I do the math 
imma master at that 
You be Headed to beheading 
Where the hell ya head at 
I be Planning out my path 
You attached to my raft 
Keep forgetting where you sit 
Admit it’s on my behalf 

You be Scanning on my craft 
You can’t match what I have 
Too legit I’m never quitting 
Put that on MC ham 
You be spamming on the gram 
You be spazzing no gas 
It’s upsetting how you vetting 
But we don’t give a damn 

Where do we go from here 
When the whole world is falling 
(Where) 
(Where are we going to go) 
(Father Musa, tell us) 
(Where) 
(Where are we going to go) 
(Teacher Musa, tell us) 
(I don’t know) 
Where do we go from here


MUSA Remix ft. Stas THEE Boss
Written, Arranged, Performed by: Witch Prophet + Stas THEE Boss
Co-Produced by: SUN SUN + Witch Prophet
Cover art by: Witch Prophet
Recorded at: Lalibela Studios + Jamcity
Mixed by: F. Nocera at Strega Villa
Mastered by: Emebet Sequar at Lalibela Studios
Funded + Released by: Heart Lake Records

MUSA Remix ft. Stas THEE Boss

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