“Sohrab’s sound on the saxophone is refreshing and unique, at once sweet and untamed.  But even more impressive is the unique group sound that Sohrab has been able to create with his fellow musicians.  They create a unified and complex sound together, full of counterpoint and changing textures, as opposed to keeping the spotlight only on the leader’s performance.  This maturity in the music is very fitting for an album that also carries a very heartfelt social message.” (Oran Etkin, musician, Jan 28, 2012)

“Alone I am nothing, but together we are winners!” bellows Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi in his song Welcome New Iran. It is just one of the boiling points of his sizzling hot new record Nu World Trash. A production that has REVOLUTION written all over it. Surrounded by an incredibly gifted group of musicians, Sohrab has provided himself with a platform from which he expresses his views, both musically and socially, in the most unrestrained fashion. This is the kind of record that makes you want to listen to again and again. Sohrab’s compositions are richly layered and the musical surprises are countless, they just keep popping up, giving the songs more depth with every listen. With words and sounds this radical Sohrab definitely kisses away all chances of ever going on a hot date with the Ayatollah’s daughter in funky Teheran. But he doesn’t have to. On Nu World Trash Sohrab has created a new world entirely his own, sparkling with passion, danger and adventure. A welcome oasis for the weary Downtown traveller. “Together we are powerful!” Sohrab tells us once more. Just so we know his revolution is far from over. If Che Guevara had made a record, this is would be it.” (Pascal Plantinga, musician, Jan25, 2012)

“Gorgeous and achingly beautiful, Sohrab Saadat’s SoSaLa ensemble bleeds passionately with every twist of Nu World Trash.  Only an Iranian living in NYC and worshipping at the collective alter of Coltrane and Fela Kuti could contrive such sincere expressiveness and breathe fresh life into the hybridization of avant-jazz and middle eastern music.” (Philo T., Illegal Art label owner, Jan 23, 2012)

“I dig your CD, though I feel like I need more time with it to get to the heart of what’s happening with the poetry.  I really like the big sprawling sound the get from the band.  It feels like a nice step further into the sonic realm of the classic 60′s jazz sound I love so much.” (Skye Steele, musician, Jan 18, 2011)

“Sohrab Ladjevardi has a massive tone on tenor sax, and his musical adventures expand the mind and the soul!” (Amy Denio, musician, Jan 16, 2012)

“Sohrab Saadat’s CD, SoSaLa, is a projection of pure sarcasm and wit towards the world’s regimes to the everyday “daily grind,” tangled up with wild swells of Saadat’s virtuosic Middle-Eastern-infused saxophone, and pushed by persistent, rock-ified drumset and bass. Saadat’s almost whimsical commentary traversing the album is a fresh and welcomed poke at political absurdity and cultural confusion, housed in a musical atmosphere deriving influences from America to Saadat’s native Tehran, Iran. (April Centrone of the New York Arabic Orchestra, musician, Jan 15, 2012)

“SoSaLa   Nu World Trash by Sohrab Saadat is a powerful album that inspire freedom. Sohrab’s innovative way to fuse Persian and Jajouka music with free jazz gives a new meaning to that categoric.” (Elio Villafranca, musician, Jan 4, 2012)

“SoSaLa has an expansive sound imbued with a spirit of discovery that harkens back to a time, in the 1980s, when the east village music scene was at its most creative – and combines this atmosphere with a very contemporary vibe and an awareness of the terrible political situation in iran, which can, perhaps, only be resolved by a belief in the justice of beauty, love, and music.” (Lukas Ligeti, musician, Dec 25, 2011)

“SoSaLa’s debut album takes the gritty sound of the street and recycles it into Nu World Trash. The street may be in Tehran, Tokyo, Tangier, Bamako, or New York, but the sound is always singular. A layering of sounds, voices, and instruments, with band leader Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi’s saxophone riding the crest of the wave. His able cast of backing musicians includes Swiss Chriss on drums, Derek Nievergelt  on bass, the Senegalese master Masamba Diop on talking drum, an atmospheric wall of guitar sound from Alejandro Castellano (guitar),  Sylvain Leroux on fula flute, Piruz Partow on electric tar, and electric blues maestro Ladell Mclin (also on guitar). Born in Iran but raised in Germany, Sohrab Sadaat Ladjevardi has studied with Ornette Coleman, played on stage with Salif Keita in Bamako, and been a martial arts master in Japan. So it’s hardly surprising  that Nu World Trash has a complexity and a rhythmic drive that defies generic pigeon holes. Co-produced by Martin Bisi, the album travels from Morocco’s Rif Mountains (“Ja-Jou-Ka”) to Iran’s Green Movement (“Welcome New Iran”), and back to the Upper West Side for a morning coffee and a bedtime beer (“Everyday Blues”). The sound of Ladjevardi’s sax takes us all those places, and far beyond, its wailing wakes us from our dream of life and rises with us to the sky …” (Augusta Palmer, film maker, December 22, 2011)

“Sohrab Saadat’s new release Nu World Trash with his project SoSa a proves that he is a force to be reckoned with. He speaks through his saxophone with an earthly fire that many players spend a lifetime searching for. In a world of copycats, Saadat is a true original.” (Dan Barman, musician, Dec 21, 2011)

“Interesting sound canvas! Sounds like you put a lot of thought into it and the concept is front and center, which is a rarity these days. Wonderful players also!” (Rez Abassi, Dec 18, 2011, musician)

“This is a beautiful and human song, man! I like it very much. This song is a mix and fusion of Persian and Jajouka music. It describes musically very well the long historic trip Persian music and culture had to go to reach Jajouka. – When I come to NY next time let’s play Persian-Jajouka music. And please take me to Iran with you.”
(The Master Musicians of Jajouka’s Bachir Attar’s quote reg. Ja-Jou-Ka, October 2011)

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