Alabaster Deplume - A Blade Because A Blade Is WholeGus Fairbairn's sophomore album as Alabaster Deplume presents his most enigmatic and challenging work to date. The cryptic title suggests themes of completeness through sharpness, wholeness through cutting concepts that permeate both the music and Fairbairn's oblique philosophical approach to composition and performance. The album expands on the intimate saxophone and voice template established in his earlier work while pushing into more abstract