EPISODE · Nov 8, 2025 · 1H 19M
S2/EP2: Alabaster DePlume
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In this special episode, Ben talks w/ Mancunian saxophonist and poet Alabaster Deplume about the philosophy and process behind Alabaster’s new LP ‘A Blade Because a Blade is Whole’. The duo also discuss Alabaster’s relationship to new British jazz, improvisation as a way of life, TOOL, Julmud’s ‘Tuqoos’, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s destructive radical honesty, Nietzsche’s eternal return, writing lyrics in intoxicated isolation, ‘Buy it’, and Alabaster’s experiences in Palestine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In this special episode, Ben talks w/ Mancunian saxophonist and poet Alabaster Deplume about the philosophy and process behind Alabaster’s new LP ‘A Blade Because a Blade is Whole’. The duo also discuss Alabaster’s relationship to new British jazz, improvisation as a way of life, TOOL, Julmud’s ‘Tuqoos’, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s destructive radical honesty, Nietzsche’s eternal return, writing lyrics in intoxicated isolation, ‘Buy it’, and Alabaster’s experiences in Palestine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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