Alabaster DePlume has shared the first single, “Did You Know”, off his upcoming album “Come With Fierce Grace” out September 8th via International Anthem.

TRACKLIST:

01. Sibomandi (feat. Falle Nioke)
02. What Can It Take
03. To That Voice And Say
04. Greek Honey Slick
05. Give Me Away
06. Fall On Flowers
07. Did You Know (feat. Momoko Gill)
08. Levels Of Human
09. Not Even Sobbing
10. The Best Thing In The World
11. Naked Like Water (feat. Donna Thompson)
12. Broken Again

Via a press release this was shared about the lead single: “On the album’s lead single “Did You Know,” singer and drummer Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba) takes the key poem from GOLD and translates it into her own lyrics. Gill had already delivered the message of the poem and sang it across tons of shows with Alabaster – but with her performance on “Did You Know” she lays out her own meaning for the words. In the background of “Did You Know,” you hear Alabaster playing the key melody that accompanied the original poem on GOLD; but here the feeling is re-established by the improvisers who were recreating the arrangement in the moment, purely for the sake of enjoying each other at the time.”

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Alabaster DePlume’s songs are built on sonorous circular melodies and luminous tones that transmit calmness and generosity in warm waves, unless they’re raging against complacency and the everyday inhumanity of end times capitalism. A process that is people-first not product-first ensures that the music is unique; often gem-like. Most importantly, he brings a valuable transparency to his work. “This is what I’m really doing,” he says. “I want to talk about why I’m doing this, and how I’m doing this.”

He will go on a tour starting August and will run thru September.