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A Lifeboat (Part I)

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Label: 577 Records
Released: 2021
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Tracks

Feet in the Water Caught in the Undertow High Tides Stranded Glimmer of Hope In The Distance A Lifeboat Learning How to Swim (Part I) Learning How to Swim (Part II) Panic Is This How It Ends? Coming Up Air

Personnel

Michael Sarian

trumpet

Matthew Putman

piano

Additional Personnel / Information

Recorded August 2020 at Studio Hicks, Brooklyn, NY Recorded and mixed by Michael Sarian Mastered by Jeremy Loucas at Sear Sound, New York City Photos and album cover by James J. Williams III Graphic design by Mark Smith Produced by Michael Sarian All music by Michael Sarian and Matthew Putman (Five Seven Seven Records Music, ASCAP)

Album Description

In the first lockdown, Matthew Putman (on keyboard) and Michael Sarian (on trumpet and flugelhorn) began to meet up (with precautions) for semi-regular sessions in Sarian’s makeshift home studio. The conditions were less-than-ideal—a borrowed 20-year-old keyboard, an inadequate microphone, and cramped NYC apartment acoustics—but they continued their “weekly pilgrimages, searching for [their] cadences, rhythms and melodies through the Fall.” The sessions gave them much-needed sanity, grounding their friendship and keeping them afloat, as Sarian describes, “much like a lifeboat,” making a project that is exploratory and open-minded, full of searching and synchronicity. These three chapters represent three separate sessions recorded in a three-week time period. The album, A Lifeboat (Part I), is the duo’s debut on vinyl, following their 2020 project (Improvisations Volumes I & II), and precedes a second volume scheduled for later this year. Both the CD & LP editions feature poetry by 577's Daniel Carter, and will be available April 23, 2021.

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