Description

With In Faded Sepia, Trio Garibaldi presents a musical journey in which memory, lyricism, and stylistic contrasts resonate within a sound palette of rare richness. The album brings together works by Lowell Liebermann, Dorothy Chang, and Stephen Chatman, alongside a vibrant tribute to Duke Ellington through original arrangements by Yuri Kuriyama. Through these works, the trio brings out the full range of sounds of the clarinet, viola, and piano. This combination, both intimate and expansive, moves naturally from deep lyricism to more vibrant energy, with occasional nods to jazz.

The unifying thread of the recording crystallizes in Dorothy Chang’s Persistence, and more specifically in its movement “Song, in Faded Sepia,” which gives the album its title. Like an old photograph whose edges have softened over time, the music brings a memory back. Fragments of a familiar theme resurface, like passing images that cannot be held onto. Between the almost diabolical fervor of Liebermann’s trio, the virtuosic and luminous sweep of Chatman’s Garibaldi Suite, and the timeless elegance of Ellington reimagined with freedom and imagination, In Faded Sepia weaves a sensitive dialogue between tradition and modernity.