A Lifeboat (Part I), by Michael Sarian & Matthew Putman

A Lifeboat (Part I)

by Michael Sarian & Matthew Putman

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1.	Feet in the Water 01:37		buy track
2.	Caught in the Undertow 06:05		buy track
3.	High Tides 01:19		buy track
4.	Stranded 06:10		buy track
5.	Glimmer of Hope 02:57		buy track
6.	In The Distance 05:50		buy track
7.	A Lifeboat 05:26	info	buy track
8.	Learning How to Swim (Part I) 02:54		buy track
9.	Learning How to Swim (Part II) 03:42		buy track
10.	Panic 04:20		buy track
11.	Is This How It Ends? 01:44		buy track
12.	Coming Up 03:02		buy track
13.	Air 03:43		buy track

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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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released April 23, 2021

Michael Sarian: Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Matthew Putman: Keyboard

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)

Our deepest gratitude to our friend Justin Gelormino

577 Records is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York operating since 2001

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