Alabaster Deplume

Alabaster DePlume is the performing identity of Angus "Gus" Fairbairn, a writer, saxophonist, orator, producer, and guitarist based in England. Since releasing the unclassifiable Copernicus: The Good Book of No in 2012, DePlume has been integrating jazz, folk traditions -- from the British Isles and other global sources -- spoken word and more as a bandleader and sideman. In 2013 he and composer/pianist Daniel Inzani issued the large ensemble, avant-cabaret offering The Jester. Two years later, he released The Peach, a complex yet accessible large ensemble work combining a son...