Italian saxophone, cornettophone, and bansuri flute player Gianni Gebbia makes his debut on Minority Records with Sleep, released on LP and Bandcamp on May 1, 2026, the same day that marks the artist's 65th birthday.

Sleep can be considered an introspective and ambient meditative work, whose structure does not correspond to traditional jazz compositions, but rather consists of extensive improvised hypnotic soundscapes without precise boundaries, using soprano saxophone and cornettophone with electronic textures. Just as the Renaissance cornetto was an instrument full of symbolism, representing life, death, and eternity, where the eight carved edges of the instrument represent the unbroken line of eternity and infinity, a similar prism can be used to view the free structure of the work without a clear ending. As Gebbia himself explains about the creative process:

„My work entitled Sleep was inspired by two main sources. The first is the painting El sueño de Jacob by José de Ribera, depicting Jacob in deep sleep with a fidelity that is difficult to achieve. This painting particularly influenced me because it immediately reminded me of a poem by the Italian poet Sandro Penna, which reads: "vivere vorrei addormentato entro il dolce rumore della vita" (I would like to live asleep amid the sweet noise of life). This poem has always been a recurring theme in my artistic work and definitely influenced me in the creation of this album, which I recorded directly into the microphone without any post-production or editing, exactly as you can hear it now. The electronic effects were also controlled directly while playing via my iPad, where I use some patches created with renowned Eventide digital effects pedals.“

Sleep is therefore more of an auditory meditation exploring the space of sound, the gradual evolution of motifs, and the atmosphere of dreaming through Gebbia's improvisational playing.