{"id":22611,"date":"2025-04-10T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22611"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:53:32","slug":"michael-sarian-previews-upcoming-album-esquina-with-second-single-straight-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22611","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sarian previews upcoming album, <em>Esquina<\/em>, with second single &#8216;Straight Trash&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22612\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MichaelSarian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trumpeter, composer and improviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelsarian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Sarian<\/a> has a new record coming out at the end of the month titled <em>Esquina<\/em>. Due out on April 25th through <a href=\"https:\/\/greenleafmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenleaf Music<\/a>, it finds the Toronto-born, Buenos Aires-raised, and NYC-based musician leaning hard into jazz fusion territory, &#8220;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&#8221;, as the press release describes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To bring the album to life, Sarian has stuck with the same core trio he\u2019s 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 <em>Esquina<\/em> 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&#8217;s experimental and adventurous spirit, with the music pushing against the polish and rigidity of stadium gigs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarian has previously shared the first single, a cover of Portishead&#8217;s &#8216;Glory Box&#8217;, and now he is following it up with &#8216;Straight Trash&#8217;. Showcasing some of Sarian&#8217;s most unpredictable and adventurous work, &#8216;Straight Trash&#8217; opens with a swirling arpeggio and a haze of delayed trumpet, before tumbling into a warped, dub-soaked groove. Listen to both tracks below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3439554106\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/track=3943043510\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsarian.bandcamp.com\/album\/esquina\">Esquina by Michael Sarian<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3439554106\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/track=2595405959\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsarian.bandcamp.com\/album\/esquina\">Esquina by Michael Sarian<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;marked by wild, Jon Hassell-esque processed trumpet, synthesizers and electric organs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3344],"class_list":["post-22611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-michael-sarian"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22614,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611\/revisions\/22614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}