Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.
I'm Robert Bounds.
On today's show we're going to meet two unique creative minds who are both bringing some very impressive and formerly unusual new work into the world.
The first is the multi talented British musician Alabaster De Plume,
who's a very wonderful saxophonist and singer,
songwriter who mixes music with poetry and oratory,
and of course that wonderful nom de plume with which to conjure.
I'll be talking to him about his new album and tour.
The second is the Swiss visual artist Pascal Sender,
who's a precocious enough talent to have passed through the Kunst Academy in Dusseldorf and the Royal Academy in London by being really rather good at painting before now experimenting with augmented reality and apps that talk.
Back for a restless new show in London.
So we'll be using left brain, right brain,
front brain and back to keep pace with two original thinkers doing something very different in today's cultural world.
Alabaster and Pascal will be yours right here on Monocle On Culture.
Alabaster de Plume is a London based saxophonist, singer,
songwriter and poet who's been enthralling ever larger audiences with his unusual blend of sensitive and evocative sax playing,
confident orchestration and tracks and albums that stick long in the memory despite having few riffs or sing along choruses.
There's an innate quality to De Plume's take on whatever it is he does.
Progressive, jazz, avant, orchestral, spoken word, soul, whatever it is.
He's got a new record out titled A Blade because A Blade is Whole.