Michael Sarian

DIGIPACK EDITION

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.

PERSONNEL:

• Michael Sarian - (trumpet/flugelhorn)
• Matthew Putman - (keyboard)

Recorded August 2020 at Studio Hicks, Brooklyn, NY

TRACKS:

• Chapter IV
• 01. Aboard
• 02. Rough Waters
• 03. Rough Waters
• 04. Adrift
• Chapter V
• 05. Broken Compass
• 06. Lost
• 07. Bearings
• 08. Hope or Despair?
• 09. Land Ho?
• 10. Will We Make it?
• 11. A Clearing
• 12. Ashore
• Epilogue
• 13. On Dry Ground
• 14. Solid Footing
• 15. Forward