SoCorpo CD Release “Inelement”

Drawing from jazz, Latin American, and contemporary music, often integrating extended vocal techniques, New York based vocalist, performer, and composer Sabrina Lastman (Uruguay Israel) is described as “perennially eclectic and innovative” and as an artist who “embraces the audience with the sweetness of her voice.” Sabrina leads the Sabrina Lastman Quartet, and creates and performs interdisciplinary new music projects incorporating voice, sound, movement, and visuals – these include Dialogues of Silence, On Becoming (album released w/SoCorpo, 2009 by EWO), River of Painted Birds, An Encounter with ‘El Duende’ and Inelement (album to be released w/SoCorpo, 2013).
 
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sabrina has toured internationally and performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Blue Note, Joe’s Pub, La Mama, Blues Alley Jazz, ISSUE Project Room, Juilliard, Roulette, New York University, Yale University, Rutgers University, City University of New York and Classical Guitar Association of New York, among others. She has played with musicians such as Fernando Otero (Grammy Award Winner), Bakithi Kumalo, Meredith Monk (Grammy Award Nominated), Tali Roth, Pablo Aslan (Grammy Award Nominated), Emilio Solla, Pedro Giraudo, David Silliman, The M6, Philip Hamilton, Meg Okura, and Leonardo Suarez-Paz. Her album The Folds of the Soul was nominated by the Graffiti Awards 2008 as one of the best jazz albums of the year, and it was considered of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Uruguay. Sabrina was awarded grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council & New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her new album The Candombe Jazz Sessions with the Sabrina Lastman Quartet was released by ZOHO Music in 2012. Sabrina is the co-artistic director of Vital Vox: A Vocal Festival www.vitalvoxfest.com) that explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. Sabrina graduated from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel. www.sabrina-lastman.com
 
Sasha Bogdanowitsch is a composer, vocalist & multi-instrumentalist whose work ranges from writing live and recorded music for theater, dance and film to cross-disciplinary performance to songs with unusual accompaniments to music for unique ensembles, such as gamelan & early music groups. Sasha has a MA from the UCSC and a BFA from the CalArts, where he studied composition and world musics, later integrating the two into multi-movement, interdisciplinary performances. He has composed music for numerous media, such as SoCorpo’s ‘On Becoming,’ a vocal theater work, TV & film scores, ‘Grimm,’ a multimedia dance theater work; and ‘Hidden Circle,’ an interdisciplinary work for voice, movement & projections. Sasha is currently active composing & performing solo as well as with the cross-disciplinary theatre ensemble, Loom, the M6, a vocal sextet, and SoCorpo, a vocal duo. He has worked with artists and companies, such as: Meredith Monk, Lou Harrison, SaReel Project, Hesperus, Just Strings, Sabrina Lastman, Gamelan Son of Lion, Pusaka Sunda, Microfest & the American Festival of Microtonal Music. Sasha has performed throughout the world in such varied countries as Australia, Japan, India and Indonesia to throughout the USA and to local venues like New York’s Carnegie Hall, Whitney Museum, Symphony Space, BAM, The Tank, Galapagos, Issue Project Room and the Stone. He is co-founder of arts non-profit, World In One and the Vital Vox Vocal Festival. www.sashabmusic.com
 
“On Becoming: accuracy, audacity, intelligence, variety, originality and virtuosity. What else can you ask for?”
-Guilherme de Alencar Pinto, Brecha.
 
“The duo’s fascinating vocal technique references classical Indian vocal traditions, polyphonic Scandinavian vocal style, contemporary new music, and is even reminiscent of the Dadaist performances of Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk. …Their vocal delivery is charged with almost telepathic interplay…”
-Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz
 
“Sasha and Sabrina played so exquisitely off of each other that they sounded at times like one voice, and have a superb use of both harmony and oral shapes.”
-Chris McGovern, Sequenza 21.