Alabaster DePlume announces the brand new album Come With Fierce Grace

London-based songwriter, saxophonist, poet and orator Alabaster DePlume shares the album’s lead single "Did You Know”, which features the hauntingly beautiful vocals of Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba).

Come With Fierce Grace is a collection of tracks drawn from the same sessions as Alabaster’s 2022 double album, GOLD, Rather than a collection of B-sides, it's a continuation of the collaborative and improvisational process that GOLD was born out of.

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.

After spending most of 2022 touring in support of GOLD, Alabaster spent much of early 2023 revisiting the additional material from those Total Refreshment Centre sessions – adding, subtracting, producing and arranging – resulting in an entirely new album, Come With Fierce Grace.

It is for the most part an album of instrumentals, with exception of a few vocal features by Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba), Falle Nioke, and Donna Thompson.

Regarding the origin of the album’s name: On his first trip to perform in the US in March 2022, Alabaster collected messages from individuals, as he asked them if there is anything they would like him to share with his audiences. One message (from a person who preferred to remain anonymous) asked Alabaster to encourage people to “come with fierce grace.”