Sofia Rei: John Zorn Masada Book Iii at Subrosa

The epic world premiere of John Zorn’s Masada Book Three: The Book Beriah took place at the Town Hall in March 2013. This was the newest addition to Zorn’s ongoing work and the last in his famous Masada series, a collection of albums featuring some of the best musicians in the scene including Medeski, Martin & Wood, Pat Metheny, Marc Ribot, Uri Caine and Erik Friedlander. Sofia Rei was recently commissioned by Zorn to write lyrics and arrange a full album for the series, anticipated to be recorded and released in late 2015. She is doing this project collaboratively with guitarist and saz player Jean-Christophe Maillard. Several of the songs of this new project will be performed here for the first time!...

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The epic world premiere of John Zorn’s Masada Book Three: The Book Beriah took place at the Town Hall in March 2013. This was the newest addition to Zorn’s ongoing work and the last in his famous Masada series, a collection of albums featuring some of the best musicians in the scene including Medeski, Martin & Wood, Pat Metheny, Marc Ribot, Uri Caine and Erik Friedlander. Sofia Rei was recently commissioned by Zorn to write lyrics and arrange a full album for the series, anticipated to be recorded and released in late 2015. She is doing this project collaboratively with guitarist and saz player Jean-Christophe Maillard. Several of the songs of this new project will be performed here for the first time!

Jean-Christophe (JC) Maillard is a French composer, guitarist, pianist, electronic musician and arranger native of Pointe-à-Pître, Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. For the past 20 years, he has been touring, producing, arranging, acting as musical director and recording with all the great names in world music and world jazz. He has collaborated with Grammy wining artists such as Lisa Fischer, Angelique Kidjo, Richard Bona, Toure Kunda, etc. His project “Grand Baton”, an innovative mix of rock and electronic music with Caribbean percussions has released two albums which received praiseful reviews from all over the world, establishing him as a daring creative mind in cross genre music. JC is also known for mastering and being the first player of the SazBass, a new 8-steel string instrument of Turkish origin.

About Sofia Rei:

Argentine vocalist, songwriter and producer Sofía Rei is considered one of the most passionate, charismatic and inventive musicians on the current New York music scene. Her music explores connections between the various traditions of South American folklore, jazz and electronic sounds. Building on the success of her Independent Music Award-winning second release Sube Azul (World Village-Harmonia Mundi), Sofia returns with the spellbinding De Tierra Y Oro (“Of Earth and Gold”), described as a series of “philosophical wanderings”. She continues to set herself apart with a bold new vision in the global music scene.

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