In the first lockdown, Matthew Putnam (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 disc & LP editions feature poetry by 577's Daniel Carter, and will be available April 23, 2021.

LIMITED EDITION VINYL AND REGULAR BLACK VINYL ORDERS WILL SHIP OUT AROUND MAY 1st, THIS COULD BE SOONER … BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE PLACING AN ORDER! THANK YOU!