Michael Sarian
Michael Sarian is a trumpeter and composer, born in Toronto and raised in Buenos Aires, who moved to New York in 2012 and works from Brooklyn. He moves between a jazz quartet, his band The Chabones, free improvisation and electronic music, and his freer work appears on the New York label 577 Records. Michael Sarian recorded A Lifeboat with keyboardist Matthew Putman in 2020, in a makeshift studio in his New York apartment; Part I came out on 577 in 2021 and Part II in 2023. The two then joined bassist Ledian Mola and drummer Federico Ughi in a quartet for The Sea, The Space, and Egypt, Vol.
A Lifeboat Part I
Coloured Vinyl version. 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-nee…
The Sea, The Space, and Egypt, Vol. 1
The Great Sun Ra’s Magic Lives On in Debut Album from Old Friends Michael Sarian, Matthew Putman, Federico Ughi, and Newcomer Ledian Mola
A Lifeboat, Part II
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 I
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 th…