Trumpeter, composer and improviser Michael Sarian has a new record coming out at the end of the month titled Esquina. Due out on April 25th through Greenleaf Music, it finds the Toronto-born, Buenos Aires-raised, and NYC-based musician leaning hard into jazz fusion territory, “marked by wild, Jon Hassell-esque processed trumpet, synthesizers and electric organs and pianos, and galloping rhythms that would not be out of place on Agharta or On the Corner”, as the press release describes.

To bring the album to life, Sarian has stuck with the same core trio he’s recorded with before: Santiago Leibson on keys, Marty Kenney on electric bass, and Nathan Ellman-Bell on drums. The looseness in their playing, at times bordering on telepathic, makes Esquina feel like a sharp left turn taken with total control. The album came together with minimal or no rehearsals, built from graphic scores Sarian put together while on the road with a major pop act. This period of mainstream pop music exposure paradoxically fueled the album’s experimental and adventurous spirit, with the music pushing against the polish and rigidity of stadium gigs.

Sarian has previously shared the first single, a cover of Portishead’s ‘Glory Box’, and now he is following it up with ‘Straight Trash’. Showcasing some of Sarian’s most unpredictable and adventurous work, ‘Straight Trash’ opens with a swirling arpeggio and a haze of delayed trumpet, before tumbling into a warped, dub-soaked groove. Listen to both tracks below.