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Listen to SoSaLa on Jango Radio.com!

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From now on you can listen to SoSaLa music on the free internet Jango radio, it’s just like Pandora but has only fewer ads and more variety. Please visit http://www.jango.com/music/SoSaLa?l=0

About Jango

Jango is a free online music streaming service that allows users to create and share custom radio stations. Users choose artists to stream, and the station plays music from similar artists. Users can further refine their stations by rating songs and artists in their feed to play less or more frequently.
The service also incorporates social networking by “matching” users with listeners that have similar musical preferences. Users can share their stations or listen to stations created by others in the Jango social network.
The site also provides independent artists the opportunity to showcase their music by recommending their songs alongside that of similar popular artists.
Jango’s business model is derived from advertising revenues and transaction fees from selling music through the site. There is currently no premium services available for the site.
Based in New York City, Jango was launched in November 2007 by CEO Daniel Kaufman and CTO Chris Dowhan, who were previously the founders of Dash.com.

Sohrab jamming with Swiss musicians Manu Koch & Florian Reichle in his studio

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Sohrab loves "Tora san". Photo shot in Tokyo's Asakusa district
Sohrab loves “Tora san”. Photo shot in Tokyo’s Asakusa district

January 5th 2013 Sohrab invited two very talented Swiss musicians to jam with him in his New York-Williamsburg studio: New York based keyboardist and composer Manu Koch and Swiss based PEDRA PRETA‘s drummer Florian Reichle.  The session was so much fun and productive that Sohrab wants both musician joining his band in the near future. Enshallah. It was the first time for Sohrab to play with Manu and the second time with Florian.
The music they played was totally improvised, although Sohrab came up with ideas of his own and integrated them in the improv to give the Swiss musicians an idea how his music concept would work.
In fact the melody you hear in this recording is already a half finished new composition. The jam was recorded by iPhone. The last two minutes are missing due to technical problems.

As you might know Sohrab has two other Swiss musicians in his band: Swiss Chris on drums and Derek Nievergelt on bass who were also the rhythm section in four tracks of Nu World Trash. The ex bassist Damon Banks hooked up Manu with Sohrab. And the Swiss sax player Christoph Irniger recommended Florian to Sohrab.

No wonder that Sohrab was born in Zurich?!

Here are the two sound files: