RIYL: Arthur Russell’s First Thought Best Thought, The Ex, Don Cherry’s Holy Mountain, Mulatu Astatke, David Byrne’s Lead Us Not Into Temptation, The Dirty Three

Alabaster DePlume is a Manchester UK-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He’s a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem’s growing family of progressive musical explorationists.