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{"id":8758171009274,"title":"Alabaster DePlume \/\/ A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole LP","handle":"alabaster-deplume-a-blade-because-a-blade-is-whole-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003eイギリス・ロンドンのサックス奏者Alabaster DePlumeが、2025年3月にアメリカ・シカゴのジャズレーベルInternational Anthemからリリースしたアルバムです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eフォーク・ジャズ11曲を収録。ゲートフォルド仕様です。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3811618257\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/inan\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/inan\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more International Anthem releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for digital files. \u003cbr\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Oh My Actual Days 03:47\u003cbr\u003e2. Thank You My Pain 02:59\u003cbr\u003e3. Invincibility 03:07\u003cbr\u003e4. Form A V 03:06\u003cbr\u003e5. A Paper Man 04:53\u003cbr\u003e6. Who Are You Telling, Gus 03:56\u003cbr\u003e7. Prayer For My Sovereign Dignity 04:01\u003cbr\u003e8. Kuzushi 02:40\u003cbr\u003e9. Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem 03:56\u003cbr\u003e10. Too True 02:34\u003cbr\u003e11. That Was My Garden 07:34\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt by International Anthem:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlabaster DePlume often asks a simple question: what do people need? In his work, at his shows, in his collaborations, the Mancunian singer-saxophonist and poet-philosopher poses this to the people around him. What are people looking for? In recent years, the same reply kept coming up: healing, healing, people need healing. But why, and what does it mean to heal, especially in a world where the very idea is often commodified and sold as a luxury? If people were coming to his music for something so mysterious, he ought to figure it out. Maybe he ought to try some healing himself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“For a long time, I've always tried to give responsibility for my value to someone else,” DePlume told me on a recent phone call. It seemed he’d become so caught up in the work of forging connections, and thinking about the effects of his work on others, that he’d lost a sense of himself. “I was working on that,” he explained.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis experiment in healing included slowing down, reading, reflecting, and even taking up the practice of jiu-jitsu. DePlume wrote poetry, too, including the book 'Looking for my value: prologue to a blade', seventy pages of verse rooted in its title’s great search, in finding strength of self within a community, alongside\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e meditations on the paradox of the blade. “The blade, that divides, is whole,” he writes in the introduction. “Healing is the forming of a whole, and a whole is singular, more itself, as in more one, as in more alone.” A blade could be used to attack, to shave, to sever, but it could also be used to cut oneself loose—in the process of getting free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What's the opposite of sleep? It’s trying to sleep,” he told me. “And so what's the opposite of looking for my value? It is knowing my value. It simply is there. My dignity is there. I don't need anyone else to know my dignity, or me, to know it. I know it first. I can't seek it from another. I stand for it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelections from the poetry book ultimately became the lyrics across half of the tracks on 'A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole', DePlume’s latest full-length work for the reliably great International Anthem label: eleven songs of agency and survival and presence; of confronting life’s pains rather than trying to avoid them; of banishing escapism. In sum, it documents his learning of the fact that dignity and self-determination are prerequisites for becoming whole, which is to say, for healing. If a blade were broken it would not serve its purpose; it must be unbroken, it must be whole, to be of use...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Alabaster DePlume\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : International Anthem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIARC0090LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-04-07T11:31:55+09:00","created_at":"2025-04-07T09:10:41+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["folk \/ left-field pop","international anthem","jazz","lp","new"],"price":435300,"price_min":435300,"price_max":435300,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":47241476604154,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alabaster DePlume \/\/ A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":435300,"weight":530,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"634457198234","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl1_476414f6-d9a8-4e95-8067-a2dc3463d9f8.jpg?v=1743984524","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl2_9d851910-3fbe-4046-bd57-dc8bf497c5a2.jpg?v=1743984524"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl1_476414f6-d9a8-4e95-8067-a2dc3463d9f8.jpg?v=1743984524","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":35844203380986,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl1_476414f6-d9a8-4e95-8067-a2dc3463d9f8.jpg?v=1743984524"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl1_476414f6-d9a8-4e95-8067-a2dc3463d9f8.jpg?v=1743984524","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":35844203413754,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":1200,"width":900,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl2_9d851910-3fbe-4046-bd57-dc8bf497c5a2.jpg?v=1743984524"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bl2_9d851910-3fbe-4046-bd57-dc8bf497c5a2.jpg?v=1743984524","width":900}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eイギリス・ロンドンのサックス奏者Alabaster DePlumeが、2025年3月にアメリカ・シカゴのジャズレーベルInternational Anthemからリリースしたアルバムです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eフォーク・ジャズ11曲を収録。ゲートフォルド仕様です。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3811618257\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/inan\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/inan\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more International Anthem releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for digital files. \u003cbr\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Oh My Actual Days 03:47\u003cbr\u003e2. Thank You My Pain 02:59\u003cbr\u003e3. Invincibility 03:07\u003cbr\u003e4. Form A V 03:06\u003cbr\u003e5. A Paper Man 04:53\u003cbr\u003e6. Who Are You Telling, Gus 03:56\u003cbr\u003e7. Prayer For My Sovereign Dignity 04:01\u003cbr\u003e8. Kuzushi 02:40\u003cbr\u003e9. Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem 03:56\u003cbr\u003e10. Too True 02:34\u003cbr\u003e11. That Was My Garden 07:34\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt by International Anthem:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlabaster DePlume often asks a simple question: what do people need? In his work, at his shows, in his collaborations, the Mancunian singer-saxophonist and poet-philosopher poses this to the people around him. What are people looking for? In recent years, the same reply kept coming up: healing, healing, people need healing. But why, and what does it mean to heal, especially in a world where the very idea is often commodified and sold as a luxury? If people were coming to his music for something so mysterious, he ought to figure it out. Maybe he ought to try some healing himself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“For a long time, I've always tried to give responsibility for my value to someone else,” DePlume told me on a recent phone call. It seemed he’d become so caught up in the work of forging connections, and thinking about the effects of his work on others, that he’d lost a sense of himself. “I was working on that,” he explained.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis experiment in healing included slowing down, reading, reflecting, and even taking up the practice of jiu-jitsu. DePlume wrote poetry, too, including the book 'Looking for my value: prologue to a blade', seventy pages of verse rooted in its title’s great search, in finding strength of self within a community, alongside\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e meditations on the paradox of the blade. “The blade, that divides, is whole,” he writes in the introduction. “Healing is the forming of a whole, and a whole is singular, more itself, as in more one, as in more alone.” A blade could be used to attack, to shave, to sever, but it could also be used to cut oneself loose—in the process of getting free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What's the opposite of sleep? It’s trying to sleep,” he told me. “And so what's the opposite of looking for my value? It is knowing my value. It simply is there. My dignity is there. I don't need anyone else to know my dignity, or me, to know it. I know it first. I can't seek it from another. I stand for it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelections from the poetry book ultimately became the lyrics across half of the tracks on 'A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole', DePlume’s latest full-length work for the reliably great International Anthem label: eleven songs of agency and survival and presence; of confronting life’s pains rather than trying to avoid them; of banishing escapism. In sum, it documents his learning of the fact that dignity and self-determination are prerequisites for becoming whole, which is to say, for healing. If a blade were broken it would not serve its purpose; it must be unbroken, it must be whole, to be of use...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Alabaster DePlume\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : International Anthem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIARC0090LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
