{"id":22001,"date":"2024-10-15T18:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22001"},"modified":"2025-01-22T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:49:14","slug":"alabaster-deplume-unveils-cremisan-prologue-to-a-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22001","title":{"rendered":"Alabaster DePlume unveils Cremisan: Prologue To A Blade<\/em> EP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Sofia Lambrou<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s wonderful news from ingenious and thought-provoking spoken word artist, bandleader, composer, saxophonist and activist Alabaster DePlume<\/a>, who has just unveiled a new digital EP titled Cremisan: Prologue To A Blade<\/em>, part of an upcoming larger project, Prologue To A Blade<\/em>, which will also be accompanied by his debut poetry book, Looking For My Value: Prologue To A Blade<\/em>. The EP features two tracks recorded in Bethlehem, Palestine with local musicians, pianist Sami El Enani and Qanoun player Laith Albandak, and a third track, ‘Gifts Of Olive’, which references Refaat Alareer\u2019s poem \u201cIf I Must Die\u201d. DePlume comments:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo set you up for what\u2019s coming I\u2019ve layered up these compositions in private, and with friends. It\u2019s a prologue to what we\u2019re bringing next. It ushers it in. I went towards things I feared, to be in the places where this music has come from. Places in the world and in myself, where dignity and sovereignty has its role in the work of healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Head over to DePlume’s bandcamp<\/a> to grab Cremisan: Prologue To A Blade<\/em> EP, and for a taster of it, here’s the utterly compelling and beguiling opening track ‘Honeycomb’ featuring Sami El Enani.<\/p>\n