PRESS ROUNDUP: Michael Sarian – Esquina
We wanted to share some of the great press coming in for Michael Sarian’s Esquina.
Below are some standout quotes from the press, as well as links so you can check out the full articles online:
“Perhaps the most surprising piece of the album is the quartet’s reimagining of Portishead’s 1994 hit ‘Glory Box’. Sarian holds onto its deeply melodic core, although his clarion horn is a brighter and less ethereal presence than Beth Gibbons’ haunting voice. Leibson’s expansive Rhodes then taps into its solid soul-jazz potential, reaching beyond, but never quite escaping, the spell of the original.” – UK Jazz News
“This is an impressive album for a lot of reasons…Muted trumpet with lots of reverb, doubling, and other effects, electric pianos and synthesizers and organ dominate.” Green Man Reviews
“Trumpeter Michael Sarian beams in on a very absorbing whispery electro jazz-rock recording that offers up a pair of exceptionally long tracks as the main bones of the album” – Marlbank
“Full of lunar mystery and dreamy mirages, Sarian traverses, hovers, inhabits and floats across a largely improvised vision of prog-jazz and jazz fusion; taking a different direction after a trio of albums that bordered more upon a chamber-jazz and acoustic sound.” – Monolith Cocktail
