»Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue« is a new EP by Alabaster DePlume, recorded during the middle of his March 2025 US tour. DePlume had been playing shows with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes, performing music from his critically acclaimed album »A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole« (released March 2025). The trio’s onstage rapport was so immediate and strong that, on an off day in Brooklyn, DePlume chose to capture that connection, recording this collection of instrumental pieces shaped by the experience of performing, sharing, and improvising off the music of »A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole« for audiences across the US.

DePlume says: »Meeting with you all at the shows, I sensed that you felt voiceless on this ethical issue that also spelled out what we’re seeing today in the form of ICE. That experience with you is etched into me, like graffiti or a poster on the wall. It’s my job to deliver your voice, and that’s what this record is. And to take action. That urgency compelled me to record then. And now here we are. As we said, this world is awakening to the reality it was already living.«

»Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue« serves as an epilogue to »A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole«, and as a companion bookend to his October 2024 EP »Cremisan: Prologue to A Blade«.

As with almost everything that DePlume has put forth in recent years, the connection of all these works to Palestine is deep. The »Cremisan« EP itself was recorded in Palestine. »Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue« incorporates field recordings and samples of children playing and of normal life in the West Bank, and its cover art depicts wheatpaste posters of a drawing made by a 13-year-old boy from Gaza (used with permission). The inscription on the cover art says, in Arabic, »Dedicated to the mother of the martyr/witness Obaida Ahmed al-Qiram. May you rest in peace. From your student, the artist, Hasan Jawad Abudayyeh.«