The second of two volumes of studio improvisations between Brooklyn trumpeter & flugelhorn player Michael Sarian and keyboardist Matthew Putman, recorded in Sarin's home studio during the 2020 pandemic, allowing freedom in exploration as they sought out cadences, rhythms and melodies, this 2nd volume presenting the most interesting of their investigations.
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UPC: 755491256121
Label: 577 Records
Catalog ID: CD-577R-5856-2
Squidco Product Code: 32603
Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Studio Hicks, In Brooklyn, New York, in August, 2020, by Michael Sarin.
"Matthew Putman and Michael Sarian found a home in a makeshift studio, using a borrowed 20-year-old keyboard, a good microphone, and in cramped apartment acoustics, to improvise throughout the pandemic. What they called their "weekly pilgrimages" gave them a sense of much-needed sanity, grounding their friendship and keeping them afloat, as Sarian describes, "much like a lifeboat." The resultant project was an exploration of cadences, rhythms, and full of searching and synchronicity.
This album, A Lifeboat (Part II) follows the duo's first release, and explores many of the same themes, balancing Putman's velvety keyboard with Sarian's character-driven trumpet and flugelhorn. This follows their 2020 project (Improvisations Volumes I and II)."-577 Records
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• Show Bio for Michael Sarian "Trumpeter and composer Michael Sarian has been praised for his "unique compositional and instrumental voice... reminiscent of [his] lyrical contemporaries such as Ralph Alessi, Ambrose Akinmusire or Avishai Cohen...certainly deserving of a large audience and much recognition." (Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz) Born in Toronto and raised in Buenos Aires, Michael relocated to New York City in 2012 to pursue a master's degree in Jazz Studies at New York University, where he studied with great musicians such as Laurie Frink, Alan Ferber, Brad Shepik, Ralph Alessi and Mike Rodriguez. Michael has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, BRIC JazzFest, Getxo Blues Festival, Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Beacon Theater, Central Park SummerStage, Teatro Colón, has appeared on WNYC's Soundcheck with John Schaefer, NPR's World Cafe, and many more. His fourth album as a bandleader, New Aurora, released September 4 with ears&eyes Records, features a new acoustic quartet with Michael's horn at the fore-front. His three previous releases are with his septet Michael Sarian & The Chabones (Argentine slang for 'the dudes'), most recently LEÓN in August of 2018 with ZOHO Music. Michael also leads a 16 piece big band alternative, Michael Sarian & The Big Chabones, co-leads a free jazz duo project with pianist Matthew Putman, is a stable member of The NYChillharmonic, the Bette Smith band, among other collaborations and projects." ^ Hide Bio for Michael Sarian • Show Bio for Matthew Putman "Matthew Putman is a musician, scientist, producer and author currently living in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Marine and two children. He is a Researcher at Columbia University, and the founder and CEO of the company Nanotronics Imaging. His area of scientific focus includes advanced materials, and nanosystems. He teaches courses on new unique ways to use nanoparticles in polymers for the creation of flexible electronics, bio-scaffolds, flexible solar panels and other cutting edge areas of material science. Nanotronics Imaging is a growing business in high resolution Imaging company that is currently providing unique process control and research tools for the semiconductor industry as well as life sciences. As a musician he has received acclaim from for his first album "Perennial" which was released in August 2008, and the quintet called "The Gowanus Recordings." Matthew is an inventor who holds patents in several areas including a new microscope with extremely high resolution. He has co-authored technical papers, and received the American Chemical Society Best Paper Award. He was an owner of the technology company Tech Pro which was purchased by Roper Industries in 2008. Matthew is a published poet, whose book "Magnificent Chaos" has just been published and is available. Matthew has worked as a music, theatre and film producer. In the 1990's he produced a monthly series of readings of new works at Lincoln Center. He also worked with playwrights such as Israel Horovitz whom he managed the Gloucester Stage Company with in 2000. Matthew was a producer of the off-Broadway play "Perdita", by Pierre-Marc Diennet, with his wife Marine which played at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. Matthew and Marine have also worked together as Associate Producers of the award winning film "Definition of Insanity". Matthew is an Executive Board Member of The Montauk Observatory, and a founding benefactor and advisor of the "World Science Festival". He is also an Artist in Residence for Imagine Science. Matthew is recently an adviser for the not-for profit The Cure Is Now. Matthew is an adviser and investor in Plexus Entertainment Group, a leader in online movie distribution. Currently Matthew is working an affordable test for cervical cancer to be used in Sub Saharan Africa. He is also composing a ballet based on the life of Kurt Godel." ^ Hide Bio for Matthew Putman
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Track Listing:
1. Aboard 4:51
2. Anchor's Away 3:12
3. Rough Waters 3:02
4. Adrift 1:28
5. Broken Compass 3:14
6. Lost 1:51
7. Bearings 1:11
8. Hope or Despair? 2:21
9. Land Ho 1:23
10. Will We Make it? 1:54
11. A Clearing 2:02
12. Ashore 2:25
13. On Dry Ground 6:13
14. Solid Footing 9:05
15. Forward 1:34
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