
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.
Out Now
Listen Now Visit Artist's WebsitePersonnel
Michael Sarian: Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Matthew Putman: Keyboard
Track Listing
- Chapter I
- 1- Feet in the Water 1:37
- 2- Caught in the Undertow 6:05
- 3- High Tides 1:20
- 4- Stranded 6:11
- Chapter II
- 5- Glimmer of Hope 2:57
- 6- In The Distance 5:50
- 7- A Lifeboat 5:27
- Chapter III
- 8- Learning How to Swim (Part I) 2:54
- 9- Learning How to Swim (Part II) 3:43
- 10- Panic 4:21
- 11- Is This How It Ends? 1:45
- 12- Coming Up 3:02
- 13- Air 3:43