In 1974 Sohrab made his first important decicscion in his life: to leave his family and hometown Hamburg in Germany. Because he wanted to see the world.
In 2008 he made his 2nd big deciscion in his life: to leave his family and friends and his second hometown Tokyo. Because he felt his Tokyo life was a deadend. It had musically and businesswise no future perspectives. Sayonara Tokyo!
He decided to go to New York and start from stretch again. But this time he wanted to do it right. He focused on his horn and music. The only things he took with him from Tokyo was his horns, The Tehran-Dakar Brothers idea and the published music magazine Doo Bee Doo Bee Doo…and his wife.

Since 2008 he has continued to perform under the name of The Tehran-Dakar Brothers. Senegalese musicians, such as Masamba Diop (on talking drums or tama), Mar Gueye (on sabar), Jean-Marie Collatin-Faye (djembe) and Sheikh Tairou M’Baye (sabar) joined him in recordings or live concerts. But after a while many more non-Senegalese musicians have joined the band resulting in a change of the music concept and stage presentation. The music wasn’t anymore about Iran and Africa, but about a nu world sound…or in other words about the present NY sound. The main instruments were not the sax and Senegalese drums, but Sohrab’s voice, the electric guitar, western drums, bass, electronic tools, electric trumpet and tar.

All this said Sohrab realized after finishing the recording of Nu World Trash – his 6th album, which took him 15 years to release, that a new beginning in 2011 has started again which needed a new name! A name which speaks about Sohrab, his music concept and style and his band:…………..SoSaLa!

SoSaLa is fueled by improvisation, diverse instruments such as electric guitar, fula flute, piano, vibraphone, sabar, electric tar, 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.  And that gives the title to their debut CD, Nu World Trash, which is coming out March 6th on DooBeeDoo Rec.

Current members are: Sohrab on tenor and soprano sax & vocals, Damon Banks on bass, Michael Wimberly on drums & djembe and Sinan Gundogdu on oud.

About the new album Nu World Trash

Track #1 – Ja-Jou-Ka

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Track #2 - Nu Persian Flamenco

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Track #3 – New Welcome Iran

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Track #4 – Khorasan

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Some information about the CD

This is Sohrab’s new CD which is coming out officially beginning of next year. Sohrab is planing a CD release event at a venue in NY for the time frame of end of 2/27 through 3/7/2012. The event date would be also than the official release date. But you can already purchase the CD at http://www.cdbaby.com/sosala.

Title: Nu World Trash
Label: DooBeeDoo Rec
Cat.#: DBDBCD001
Excecutive producer: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Engineer and co-producer: Martin Bisi
Recorded at BC STUDIO (Brooklyn)
Recorded tracks: 9
The musicians are: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (sax & vocal), Damon Banks (b), Swiss Chriss (dr), Derek Nievergelt (b), Masamba Diop (talking drum, Baaba Maal member), Mar Gueye (sabar/Dou Dou N’Diaye Rose’s member), Alejandro Castellano (g), Kurt Dahlke (electronics), Satish (electric tr), Sylvain Leroux (fula flute), Piruz Partow (electric tar) and Ladell Mclin (g).
Message: do the right thing! And nobody and no political can terrorize you.
Music style: nu world trash

Purpose: the CD is dedicated to the Iranian revolution and not to the “Green Movement”, which doesn’t speak for the Iranian people anymore.

When you listen to Welcome New Iran you here voices and sounds in the background which were taken from two YouTube video footage.