Marvin Tate is a multidisciplinary artist and Educator. He has been active in the Chicago music scene since 1993. He has collaborated with Visual Artist, Theaster Gates Jr. and the Black Monks of Mississippi, Video Artist, Jefferson Pinder, and a motley crew of musical talents that include: Leroy Bach, Angel Olsen, Bill MacKay, Tim Kinsella, and Jazz Artists: Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Mike Reed, French experimentalist, The Bridge, Composer, Ernest Dawkins, and Soundscape Artist Joseph C.Mills. Marvin's art is exhibited in many galleries and museums, including The Intuit Museum in Chicago, one of the world's premier museums dedicated to presenting self-taught art.               

 In 2021, 5 Points Arts Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will show 'Bird Watch,' a collection of birds that Marvin has constructed out of burnt wood and other found objects.Tate is represented by The Hana Pietri Gallery in Chicago, Il.

Marvin Tate - fearlessness

Olula Negre - cello, tenor banjo

Hunter Diamond - winds, percussion, electronics

Alabaster DePlume:

Behind the offbeat name is an offbeat talent (born Angus Fairbairn) who walks a wavering line between improvisational saxophonist and performance poet. Fairbairn was drifting around Manchester music circles for several years before finding his metier at east London’s Total Refreshment Centre among a community of musicians and fans. Gold, his second album for Chicago indie label International Anthem, was distilled from 17 hours of sessions over two weeks during the summer of 2020 at the venue, all deliberately under-rehearsed to preserve a much-treasured spontaneity. It follows 2020’s To Cy and Lee, whose serene instrumentals (sampled by US folkie Bon Iver) were dedicated to two adults with learning disabilities with whom Fairbairn had worked. Human frailty is one theme in his work, there in a title such as Don’t Forget You’re Precious, a standout that comes with an alarming video.

Most of Gold’s 19 tracks mix DePlume’s hushed declamations with his tenor sax, whose tremulous tone and delicate, circular melodies recall Ethiopian master Getatchew Mekuria, though there are Ayleresque honks on angrier pieces such as Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love, and plenty of robust drumming and choral backing. A conventional jazzer DePlume isn’t, but he has found a dedicated constituency outside the mainstream. An intriguing artist.