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Sohrab joins The DISSIDENT ARTS ORCHESTRA plays “BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN”

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Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: 17 Frost Theatre of the Arts
Price: $10 donation

THE DISSIDENT ARTS ORCHESTRA, improvisational music repertory ensemble that focuses on silent film scores returns to 17 Frost in 2013. We expect another large ensemble of exemplary musicians under the leadership of John Pietaro to bring new life to old classics again this year. Join us for a screening of the of the classic revolutionary film by Eisenstein, ‘BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN’ up on 17 Frost’s three large screens with the band down at front and center. So far the line-up will be:

John Pietaro – vibes, percussion, musical direction
Nora McCarthy – vocals
Cheryl Pyle – flute
Quincy Saul – clarinet
Rocco John Iacovone – soprano and alto saxophones
Patrick Brennan – alto saxophone
Ras Moshe – tenor and soprano saxophones, flutes
Sohrab Saadat Lardjevardi (SoSaLa) – tenor and soprano saxophones
Nick Gianni – baritone saxophone and bass flute
Alon Nechustan – accordion
Javier Hernandez-Miyares- electric guitar and effects
Laurie Towers- electric bass
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic – double bass
Hollis Headrick – drumkit, percussion

Concert review

Concert Review: The Dissident Arts Orchestra Plays Battleship Potemkin by Matt Cole (DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY, 03/02/2013)

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: