SOUND LIBERATION and IDO Play Drom NYC 6/25

Genre busting ensemble Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation will headline a pre release concert for the album 'VRE Suite' on Innova Records at Drom in New York City on June 25th at 7pm. This special performance will also feature co-headliner Franz Hackl's IDO. Drom is located at 85 Avenue A bewteen 5th and 6th Streets Admission is $10.00. To purchase tickets in advance, go to: http://www.dromnyc.com/.

Sound Liberation is an eclectic hip-hop/chamber/jazz/rock/etc.ensemble. The group incorporates its philosophy by performing compositions that encompass a diverse range of musical genres, heavily influenced by hip-hop and rock rhythms, committed to "ending the segregation of sound vibration". This enables one to hear elements from classical music to Jazz to music of various cultures at a Sound Liberation show. "The freedom of sounds. . .is truly implemented in a masterful way" - Thorsten Bendnarz, Jazzethic Magazine.

The band has released their 2nd album 'Open Up Your Ears and Get Some' on Col Legno Records in '08. On July 27th, 2010 Innova Records will release Sound Liberations 3rd Album; Gene Pritsker's 'VRE Suite' a one hour composition written for the quintet portion of Sound Liberation."Sound Liberation are afraid of nothing, mixing rhythm and genre to the point where the listener simply gives up on labels and enjoys the ride!....grab this indie gem now!" - RootdownFM.com

The band has performed at such notable venues as Joe's Pub, Wetlands, Knitting Factory, The Blue Note, Downtime, New Music Cafe, Drom, Cutting Room,, Le Poisson Rouge and many other performing spaces. The group also performed at the Outreach Festival '06 and again in '07 in Schwaz, Austria. In '07 Sound Liberation performed at the Estonian House and presented Gene Pritsker's Opera 'Money' at The Players Theatre and Flea Theatre in New York. In May of '08 'Money' was performed at the Etna music Festival in Catania, Sicily and Sound Liberation played in Ragusa, Sicily. In July '08 they performed at the Blaine jazz Festival in Blaine, Wa. In May of '09 Sound Liberation presented 2 nights at The Flea Theater, performing Gene Pritsker's one hour VRE Suite written for the Sound Liberation Quintet and a concert with B3+ of music from their albums on Col-Legno records. The Song No Truth, from the this album, was featured in the Universal Home Videos motion picture 'The Wedding Bothers'. In the fall of 2010 'Human Condition' will be featured on PBS's Road Trip Nation series. The band played a very publicized concert at New York's Le Poisson Rouge in January '10, The New Yorker wrote: "Pritsker, a rule-breaking composer-guitarist (and rapper) who impresses funk and rock beats onto classical structures, fronts this eclectic jazz-type combo of singers and instrumentalists".

Sound Liberation is: Gene "Noizepunk" Pritsker - composer, guitar rap, David "Criminal Cello" Gotay - rap, cello; Greg "B-man" Baker - guitar; Charles "Das Krooner" Coleman - voice; Chanda Rule - voice; Mat Fieldes - bass; and David Rosenblatt - drums. For more information: http://www.soundliberation.net/

IDO stands for Idiomo di Omni and means dialect for everybody. An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements.Omni means a combining form meaning "all". So a combination of unusual and unlikely elements, in this case musical, making up an unpredictable whole.

Franz Hackl merges "Tyrolean Folktunes " the musical dialect he grew up with , with the music and sounds of New York, the town he calls home for almost 20 years. Many people think that music is an universal language. But music has as many dialects as the human language. To open up and further develop your own musical dialect elevates this music and presents it on an international level. It's both very personal and open to influences from all over the world. Each band member has all the artistic freedom they need to contribute equally to the same vision. To play music which stays close to our musical truth and creating a very unique band sound at the same time.

IDO is Franz Hackl - trumpet; Adam Holtzman-keyboards; Mino Cinelu-percussion; and Matt Garrison-bass.