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SoSaLa Members Intro: George Crotty and Alejandro Castellano

George Crotty and Alejandro CastellanoTwo weeks ago Sohrab had a come together with the new member, George Crotty (cello and electronics) and a senior member, Alejandro Castellano (electric guitar) who is on several tracks of the Nu World Trash CD. George is from Canada who graduated from Boston’s Berklee School of Music last year; and Alejandro is from Columbia who’s continuing his study of music at the same school and has become a multi-instrumentalist adding the oud and ney to his guitar. He also enjoys painting.

First rehearsal with cellist George Crotty from SoSaLa on Vimeo.

Here is a short video of SoSaLa rehearsing with George for the first time at dobro player David Belmont’s flat joined by Kaveh Haghtalab on kemancheh and Sohrab on soprano sax. The song they play is the beginning of a new song composed by Sohrab.

SoSaLa Rehearal from SoSaLa on Vimeo.

Kamyar Arsani (SoSaLa’s DC member) w. TIME IS FIRE Releases 3-song EP Today

Kamyar ArsaniDooBeeDooBeeDoo NY‘s Dawoud Kringle reviews Time Is Fire (Washington DC) new EP. Fronted by our brother Iranian-born Sufi poet Kamyar Arsani, who’s been a member of SoSaLa since 2014, is backed by players steeped in punk, dance and experimental music.

The new 3-song EP Stories Untold was recorded in one afternoon at Inner Ear recording Studio by Eamonn Aiken, and released by Electric Cowbell Records

Read review here: http://www.doobeedoobeedoo.info/2018/03/17/ep-review-time-is-fire-washington-dc/.

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