Everyday Blues (Tenor Sax Solo)

New Persian Flamenco (Tenor Sax Solo)

Khorasan (Tenor Sax Solo)

NY'S SA-SI-SU-SE-SO (Tenor Sax solo)

Sad Sake (Tenor Sax Solo)

Welcome New Iran (Tenor Sax Solo)

This song was composed and dedicated to the post-hardcore band FUGAZI from Washington, DC. Performed for the first time when SADATO opened up for this band at CLUB QUATTRO in Tokyo.

No More Reggae

35 Cent Puppy Sandwich (FUGAZI)

Recording date: Nov/Dec 1989.
Recording engineers: Peter Messmer and Rolf Kirschbaum
Released: 1990
Label: Strange Ways (Germany)
Recording studio: Studio Calling (Germany)
Photo by Urs Lauterburg (Switzerland)
Producer: Sadato
Mixed by Sadato with the assistance of Kazuo Numajiri at After Beat (Tokyo) in May 1990.

Musicians:
Makio Tada: drums, stick bass and Alesis
Sadato: vocals

Dill

The Wwall

Members:
Bass – Damon Banks
Drums – Tony Lewis
Guitar – Toshimaru Nakamura
Percussion, Vibraphone [Electric] – Ken Yamazaki
Saxophone and Vocals – Sadato aka SoSaLa
Voice, Recorded By, Mixed By – Martin Bisi
Composed By – Sadato

1992

Madar, Pedar

Members:
Bass – Damon Banks
Composed By – Sadato aka SoSaLa
Drums – Tony Lewis
Guitar – Toshimaru Nakamura
Percussion, Vibraphone [Electric] – Ken Yamazaki
Soprano and Tenor Saxophones and Vocals – Sadato
Voice – Dina Emerson
Voice, Recorded By, Mixed By – Martin Bisi
Recorded and mixed February/March 1992 at B.C. Studio, NYC.

Der, Die, Das Hut-Mann

Members:
Bass – Damon Banks
Drums – Tony Lewis 
Guitar – Toshimaru Nakamura
Percussion, Vibraphone [Electric] – Ken Yamazaki
Soprano Saxophones and Vocals – Sadato aka SoSaLa
Voice – Dina Emerson
Composed By – Sadato
Voice, Recorded By, Mixed By – Martin Bisi
Recorded and mixed February/March 1992 at B.C. Studio, NYC.

Beh Harfam Gush Nakon

Garbage/Müll

Wer Wie Wo Was Warum

Tsu-Ba-Na

No Message

Members:
Bass – Damon Banks
Composed By – Sadato aka SoSaLa
Drums – Tony Lewis 
Guitar – Toshimaru Nakamura
Percussion, Vibraphone [Electric] – Ken Yamazaki
Soprano and Tenor Saxophones and Vocals – Sadato
Voice – Dina Emerson
Voice, Recorded By, Mixed By – Martin Bisi
Recorded and mixed February/March 1992 at B.C. Studio, NYC.

Persian Flamenco

Ich Bin Eine Maschine

Members:
Bass – Damon Banks
Composed By – Sadato, Nakamura
Drums – Tony Lewis
Guitar – Toshimaru Nakamura
Tenor & Soprano Saxophones and Vocals – Sadato aka SoSaLa

Recorded and mixed February/March 1992 at B.C. Studio, NYC.

I Like All Colors

Jam session Sunday, January 15th, 2023 with SoSaLa on tenor sax and Chris Coluzzi on drums at the Musicians Building in New York city.
Improvised music.

Jam Session 3 w. Chris Coluzzi

Musicians:
Chris Coluzzi on drums
Joe Belle on guitar
Ben Bair on bass
SoSaLa on tenor sax.
Recorded at Music Building (NY), January 29th, 2023

Improvised music. First time with a bassist and guitarist.

Jam Session #4  w. Chris Coluzzi & Friends

Members: 
SoSaLa on tenor sax
Chris Coluzzi on drums
Recorded @ the Music Building (NY)- Studio 305.
Date: 2023.02.05

Jam Session 5 w. Chris Coluzzi

Members:
SoSaLa on sax
Chris Coluzzi on drums
Recorded @ Music Building - Studio 305
Date: February 5th, 2023

Jam Session 6 with Chris Coluzzi

Along with SoSaLa (on soprano sax, vocals, organ and flute) the intriguing line up included myself (on electric guitar / Live Skull / o13 / Spoiler / Int’l Shades / Body), James Lo (on drums / Live Skull / Chavez / Slash Orchestra), Peter Gordan (on tenor sax and Jews harp / Love of Life Orchestra), David Motamed (on electric bass / Das Daman, Cell, The Royal Arctic Institute), Toshi Nakamura (on guitar / SADATO / DATAI 99), who joined Sadato from Tokyo. To top it off the sessions were recorded and mixed by my good friend Martin Bisi at BC Studio in Brooklyn - where Live Skull had worked extensively in the 1980’s.

Hearing the eight tracks for the first time since ’93, knocked me out! I was struck by how much the core sound is indebted to the abstract and chaotic aggression of No Wave - albeit re-interpreted fifteen or so years after the birth of the original movement. I was excited by how energized and focused the improvised playing is; that No Wave is the common thread we each, individually latched onto, as a meeting ground for our diverse musical tastes and backgrounds.  As ringmaster, SoSaLa’s minimal but inventive directions got us going, but the color, texture and the mood of the riffs came from some dark corner in each of our psyches’ where we had stored away the big lessons of No Wave.  - Mark C (LIVE SKULL)

Khodahafez

You Want To Be A Sex Star

Omar Khayyam In New York

So What

Vor Deiner Tur

Dadada Dadada Daaa

Performed in the tunnel of Riverside Park, Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 around 7pm. The solo is dedicated to "Arthur" nature which proves us again that we human beings can't control it. Arthur plays the blues whenever he feels right to do it...a beginning. And we just listen to it...till the ending?!

Tenor Sax Solo  "A Beginning Is An Ending"

In Memory of Kamran Hooshmand

The music project SoSaLa is the brainchild of Iranian-American sax player SoSaLa. Fueled by improvisation, SoSaLa blends original melancholic melodies, and those of his native Iran, with Persian, African and African-American rhythms. Altogether, Sohrab calls his music "nu world trash". His music molded by his international background.

 “…(SoSaLa) blends many elements from different cultures and time frames: funk, rock, jazz & ethnic sounds, electric & acoustic instruments, all swirling around one another in a most mesmerizing way. Sohrab does more spoken word than singing, spewing out his views to bring the world closer together. The festive spirit of the music is often infectious…I can agree with his view of our splintered world by trying to pull different threads together into a hopeful mosaic. Some of the melodies remind me of the Jewish prayers heard in my youth but perhaps these melodies are universal in nature and shared by numerous cultures. You can visit Saadat’s website at www.sohrab.info and learn about the real Iran which you won’t find out about in the controlled news of the world. A toast to a New Iran.” (Bruce Lee Gallanter, NY’s Downtown Music Gallery co-owner, Feb 24, 2012)

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