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SoSaLa w. Kamran Hooshmand at CA Music Room

Courtesy of Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi aka SoSaLa | Posted on September 27, 2015

Where

CA Music Room
218 E. 25th Street
New York, NY
Map

When

Sun, October 18, 2015
8:00 pm

At Door

$20

Musicians

About

SoSaLa – a music collective formed in New York in 2011 – is fueled by improvisation, diverse instruments such as electric guitar, fula flute, piano, vibraphone, sabar, electric tar, kemancheh, daf, electric trumpet and electronics, blending melancholic melodies, with those of front-man and sax player Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi‘s native Iran.

The rhythm section blends Persian, African and African-American rhythms and instruments. Sohrab’s vocals give a dada-istic touch to social and political issues. The music is molded by his international background, as an Iranian raised in Germany who later moved to Japan, and now New York City. Altogether, they call the music "nu world trash." ...

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