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Sohrab Saadat: SoSaLa: 1994-Live At CBGB

Read "SoSaLa: 1994-Live At CBGB" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Saxophonist and composer Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, who goes by the stage name SoSaLa, has had a fascinating and varied career. A musicians' rights advocate and label owner, Saadat was born in Zurich to Iranian parents and is currently based in New York. He, however, spent several years working in Tokyo. The provocative and captivating 1994-Live at CBGB comes from this phase of his life. Recorded at the storied club of the title with a Japanese quartet, the music is dubbed ...

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SoSaLa: 1993

Read "1993" reviewed by Chris May


Saxophonist SoSaLa--born Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi to Iranian parents in Switzerland, brought up in Germany, martial arts student in Japan, and a New York City resident since 2008--is the sort of wild card we need more of in jazz. Not necessarily because of the actual music he makes, which has limited appeal, but because of the energy he brings to its creation and the free-thinking attitude out of which it erupts. And also, actually, because it does have limited appeal. Jazz ...

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Toshimaru Nakamura / Lucio Capece: Ij

Read "Ij" reviewed by John Eyles


On paper, “no input mixing board (the output from the board is connected directly to the input, creating an electronic feedback loop) sounds like an unpromising instrument to play; at best very limited, at worst a non-event. Surprisingly, in the hands of its pioneer, Toshimaru Nakamura, it has become a seemingly limitless source of rich sounds which variously display the qualities of pure tone sine waves, white noise, synthesized sound, acoustic feedback and more. Often, it is tempting to describe ...


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