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.

Michael Sarian & Matthew Putman ::
A Lifeboat (Part I)

Michael Sarian: Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Matthew Putman: Keyboard

Recorded in Brooklyn
Release: April 23rd, 2021
Total 12" vinyl time - 39:00
Catalogue number 5856-1

Photos and album cover by James J. Williams III
Graphic design by Mark Smith

Vinyl: Beautifully designed vinyl LP with printed inner sleeve
Download code included

Also, only available from us and the artist: Exclusive limited edition of 100 color LPs
Plus exclusive First Digipak disc Edition of 300

TRACKS:

SIDE ONE

1- Feet in the Water 1:37
2- High Tides 1:20
3- Stranded 6:11
4- Glimmer of Hope 2:57
5- In The Distance 5:50

SIDE TWO 

1- A Lifeboat 5:27
2- Learning How to Swim (Part I) 2:54
3- Learning How to Swim (Part II) 3:43
4- Is This How It Ends? 1:45
5- Coming Up 3:02
6- Air 3:43

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