Sosala 30 Years Ago: No-wave Improv With Powerful Messages

September 13, 2023

SoSaLa has released a retrospective recording which looks back to 1993; when music was made at a special time and with special musicians. For fans who are interested in SoSaLa’s interesting and accomplished music career, this retrospective album is a must. The music on this album comes from the No Wave and post-No Wave scenes in ...

Baba Don Eaton

For almost a quarter century, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, a percussionist very much in demand, has performed with many Major American Dance Companies in the world’s greatest performing-arts venues.  His recording career is as equally varied as it vast; the jazz idiom, rhythm and blues, and most African derived percussion styles are represented in his discography.  He is a featured member of the esteemed last poets.  He has long been acknowledged as one of New York City’s master teachers of African Drumming and the rhythms of the Diaspora in the Americas.  Baba Don Eaton  Babatunde is presently on faculty at the Harlem school Of the Arts for over 25 years, teaching all ages from 4 years of age to adults.

Nu World Trashed

By Sohrab Saadat

Label: DooBeeDoo Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Welcome Nu World (5:34), 2. Enough Is Enough (5:18), 3. Mystical Full Moon Hymn for Ornette Coleman (feat. SoSaLa) (4:14), 4. Sad, Sad, Sad Sake (10:39), 5. Anybody Out There? (feat. SoSaLa) (6:54), 6. What’s What? (4:57), 7. My Shushtari (15:39), 8. Anybody Out There? (Lift Off) (feat. SoSaLa) (1:56), 9. Intro Music (8:06)

Sohrab Saadat

Born: April 1, 1953

A Comprehensive Biography of SoSaLa

The early years

Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (aka SoSaLa) was born to Iranian parents in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1953. However, following the sudden death of his business partner, Sohrab’s father had to close down their joint business and, on the advice of a family member and when Sohrab was just three months of age, the Saadat Ladjevardi family moved to live in Hamburg, Germany. There Sohrab’s father established an export trade company called Iran Hamburg.  Growing up in Germany, Sohrab’s early lessons on piano ended abruptly, when his teacher found she couldn’t abide his style of playing.

SoSaLa: Nu World Trash

by Glenn Astarita
April 18, 2012

SoSaLa is the brainchild of vocalist, saxophonist, music activist and native Iranian Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, who fuses Persian influences with Western instrumentation amid indigenous platforms, summoning the Middle Eastern contingent. A well-travelled musician, Ladjevardi immerses his craft into quite a few projects and multifaceted ensemble-based frameworks. He resides in New York City, and as the story ...

Nu World Trash

By Sohrab Saadat

Label: DooBeeDoo Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Ja-Jou-Ka; Nu Persian Flamenco; Welcome New Iran; Khorasan; Vatan Kojai?; Happy April Fool's Day; NY's Sa-Si-Su-Se-So; Sad Sake; Everyday Blues.