Our newest faculty member, Jazz Saxophone instructor Raffi Garabedian, recently released a new album titled: MELODIES IN SILENCE.
You can listen to and purchase the album on Bandcamp or listen via other streaming platforms.
MELODIES IN SILENCE is a pandemic project. In a time of overwhelming unknown, I started recording solo improvisations wherever I felt safe -- outside among redwood trees in the Oakland Hills, or under fluorescent lights at my music studio in West Berkeley. The end result is a manifestation of dreams and melodies from a place where everything felt distant and nothing felt possible. It is a meditation on the surrealism of time, day, and night. It is a reflection on grief, loneliness, fear, anger, and hope.
Check out this video for one of the tracks on the album, Courage of Sunrise.