Michael Sarian - Flugelhorn

Santiago Leibson - Piano

Marty Kenney - Bass

Dayeon Seok - Drums

Album release is 9/4 on ears&eyes Records (www.earandeyesrecords.com / ig: @earsandeyesrecords)

Produced by Michael Sarian and Luis Bacque

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Luis Bacque at Bacque Recording Engineering Studios in Roselle, New Jersey

(Luis Bacque uses Sonoris Software)

Album artwork & design: Jamie Breiwick @ B Side Graphics

(www.bsidegraphics.net / ig: @b.side.graphics)

Michael Sarian's new quartet, New Aurora, gets its name from the track Aurora, which Sarian began writing on February 15, 2019. Although the word literally means dawn, which is the meaning Sarian hopes to convey behind the project, the composition came after hearing of a mass shooting that day in Aurora, Illinois. The alternation between sus2 and sus4 chords throughout the first section, paired with a simple melody, bear a somber mood, a hopelessness which Sarian felt assuming #Aurora was trending because of the 2012 mass shooting there, only to find out there another had taken place.