Italian saxophone, cornettophone, and bansuri flute player Gianni Gebbia makes his debut on Minority Records with Sleep, released on LP and Bandcamp on May 1, 2026, the same day that marks the artist's 65th birthday.

Sleep can be considered an introspective and ambient meditative work, whose structure does not correspond to traditional jazz compositions, but rather consists of extensive improvised hypnotic soundscapes without precise boundaries, using soprano saxophone and cornettophone with electronic textures. Just as the Renaissance cornetto was an instrument full of symbolism, representing life, death, and eternity, where the eight carved edges of the instrument represent the unbroken line of eternity and infinity, a similar prism can be used to view the free structure of the work without a clear ending. Sleep is therefore more of an auditory meditation exploring the space of sound, the gradual evolution of motifs, and the atmosphere of dreaming through Gebbia's improvisational playing.

Gianni Gebbia, born in Palermo, Sicily, and a graduate of the University of Palermo's Faculty of Philosophy, is an internationally renowned Italian saxophonist, flutist, and composer, known for his experimental and avant-garde jazz style. Gebbia is considered one of the world's leading specialists in circular breathing technique, which allows him to create continuous, long tones, often leading to polyphonic illusions. In 1990, he participated as a soloist in the Total Music Meeting in Berlin organized by FMP alongside musicians such as Steve Lacy and Lindsay Cooper. A year later, he initiated a collaboration with German percussionist Gunther Sommer and double bassist Peter Kowald, reviving one of the historic duos of European free jazz. In 2000, The Wire magazine ranked him among the leading solo saxophone players.

Taupe’s latest album release, waxing | waning delivers jazz experimentalism, ‘skronk’, avant-rock, and electronics, by the Glasgow-based trio, due out now on Minority Records. Across its seven tracks, waxing | waning captures Taupe’s approach – bold and boundarypushing – shaped by a fresh shift in the band’s dynamic and compositional approach.

Taupe’s waxing | waning, co-composed and realised by its players in a studio that was once an undertaker’s premises in Glasgow, is an absolutely affirmative album, an act of cultural defiance in desperate times.

Comprising Mike Parr-Burman (guitar, bass guitar, electronics), Jamie Stockbridge (alto and baritone saxophones) and Alex Palmer (drum kit, percussion), Taupe work up a storm of skronk, free jazz and harmolodic frenzy whose closest relations include Zu, Melt Banana and John Zorn. However, waxing | waning is from its opening, stuttering blasts, an exercise in seeking out and claiming new territory, finding unique and novel permutations in which jazz, rock, electronics interbreed at breakneck pace. Here is a group determined to say and do things they don’t get to say and do elsewhere in their musical lives.

Taupe are a Glasgow-based trio whose free(math)avant(skronk) concoctions fuse sour sonics, effervescent improvisation and sludgy, doom-laden riffage into a sound both unruly and sharply honed. Often seeming to operate by a kind of spooky telekinesis, they pivot from turbulent, unwieldy chaos into taut, metronomic precision, cultivating an approach that feels both volatile and vividly alive. Steeped in a DIY ethos, Taupe balance wonky charm with exacting focus, bridging the no-wave disorder of DNA or James Chance with the squeaky-clean intricacy of groups like goat (jp) and Horse Lords, all while maintaining an anarchic spirit that takes any pretensions out to the woodshed.