Date: June 28, 2013
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (NY)
Text and photos by Mehran Farahbakhsh
Most musicians bring their sounds into music, that is what music making is about. Sounds to refine to the musicians imaginations, in case of this young man:). SoSaLa‘s Sohrab. Somewhat there is a different jazz in play, Sohrab takes the music and brings it to his sounds, by that I mean, he uses the established sounds of music and evolves it to outside boundaries of recognition, it is his rebellious nature, against the ideas of entertainment, or danceable, or may be your ordinary expectation of sounds, musical tunes are used nostalgically as he is taking you somewhere, an unknown edge of imagination, the high energy state of chaos.
Don’t worry though, he brings you back, he lends you a bit of his reality, it is the experience that counts…according to him, he doesn’t even care if you really like it, it’s not about likability…he sees it as his music frees you, as the need for freedom may be his only reasons to devote his life in the realm of sounds… Sounds raw in nature, on pedestals of known rhythms, and various nature of sounds known always attempting the unknown…always with serious flirtations, his performance nonchalant, humble, arrogant…gosh he is from another planet…)…love to pursue his challenging sounds…
SoSaLa is: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi on tenor and soprano sax & vocals, Baba Don Eaton (Last Poets) on djembe, congas & percussion and Lautaro Burgos (from Argentina) on drums and percussion and Greg Zweiben on electric bass.