Alabaster DePlume – A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole – CD

International Anthem Recording Company

Selections from the poetry book ultimately became the lyrics across half of the tracks on “A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole“, Alabaster 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.