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Higher & Higher
Neshama Carlebach and The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir join forces to record this powerful album produced by Sojourn co-founder Mark Ambrosino. Singing the songs of her father, beloved Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Neshama and the Choir bring a new found depth and majesty to the songs that are clearly timeless works of art. Known as the Father of Modern Jewish Music, Shlomo Carlebach's melodies are unforgettable, uplifting and haunting. Neshama and The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir bring a joy, pain and spirit to the songs that truly brings them to life. These songs are bound to sound like nothing you have heard before - neither just  Jewish music, Gospel music or World music. In its truest form, this is "soul" music.
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  • ATHFEST MAIN STAGE
    06/21/2010
    Ken Will Morton will be performing at ATHFEST this coming Friday, June 25th on the main stage. Ken, makes his home in Athens, Georgia and is performing with his new band at theh festival. Go to http://www.athfest.com/ to learn more.
  • Robinson Treacher...Back at The Mad House
    06/12/2010
    Web Artist Robinson Treacher is currently back in Sojourn's fabled Madhouse Studio to record what he refers to as "...scaled down and simplified" music for a new upcoming EP.  He and producer Mark Ambrosino have been hard at work focusing on the art of keeping it "raw".  Look for the release of some early demos from those session right here...
  • Theo Eastwind to seranade walkers at Oprah's Live Your Best Life charity walkathon
    05/07/2010
    Theo Eastwind has been selected by O magazine to play for the crowd of walkers as they prepare to embark on the O magazine charity walkathon called Live Your Best Life. Proceeds from the walkathon's fundraising will go to ten charities (including a Sojourn favorite Partners in Health). And yes,  Theo got a call from Oprah...and has been rather aloof as of late!!
  • Theo Eastwind at The Livingroom on May 15th
    05/07/2010
    Theo Eastwind - infamous subway musician and long-time NYC singer-songwriter will be performing with his band at The Livingroom on Saturday May 15th at 10pm. It will be a great show at a great venue.
     
    Livingroom is at 154 Ludlow Street, NYC -b/w Stanton and Rivington - Get off the F train at Delancey or 2nd Avenue
  • Neshama Carlebach and Green Pastures Choir at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun (BJ)
    05/07/2010
    Location: 257 West 88th Street
    NYC, NY 10024
    The Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR) presents a concert featuring Neshama Carlebach and the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir, including performances by AJR faculty, students, and alumni
    To reserve tickets please visit www.ajrsem.org, email concert@ajrsem.org or call Helene Santo at 718-543-936- ext. 18.
  • Ken Will Morton Playing at The Livingroom in NYC Tuesday 7pm
    04/23/2010
    Sojourn Records is excited to have Ken Will Morton in NYC for a broadcast from the Madhouse and a show at the Livingroom on Tuesday April 27th at 7pm. Ken is an amazing songwriter as well as a gifted performer who has been playing his way around the Southeastern US for several years. Rare to have Ken up this way and it is a great venue to hear him play at. Ken is performing with very possibly the best rhythm section around - Mark Ambrosino (co-founder Sojourn Records) on drums and Dave Richards on bass. No cover. Come after work - or before your night on the town.
  • Amsterdam
    04/14/2010
    Neshama Carlebach just performed two shows (April 10th & 11th) in Amsterdam and hopes to return in the very near future. Met many new friends and fans and loved the city. Here is Neshama and Sojourn Prez Mark Ambrosino doing a little sightseeing. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/photo.php?pid=5071098&id=507313273
  • Danny Kalb Trio Recorded Live at Barbes by WNYC
    03/12/2010
    Listed today on Bob Dylan's site is a link to the Danny Kalb Trio recorded live at Barbes in Brooklyn by WNYC. Listen here.
  • Songs of Peace Review - Teruah Jewish Music Blog
    03/11/2010
    Wonderful review of Shlomo Carlebach's Songs of Peace released last October 2009 on Sojourn. And Jack Z. was great to listen and write about the recording. Here's the link to the post here.
  • What They're Saying About Ken Will Morton
    03/11/2010
    "Thought-provoking, poetic and ROCKS! True Grit is a GREAT record! I've been spinning the heck out of it as it's definitely one of the finest records of 2010"
         -Warren Catlett, Radio Free Americana

    "He's Steve Earle without the belligerence, a down-home troubadour possessing Steve Forbert's formidable charms. Mostly though, he stands on his own merits, one of the best - albeit belated - discoveries in quite some time."
        -Lee Zimmerman, Blurt.com

    "Without the gift of music, I would miss out on experiencing the raw talent and musical genius that comes from the likes of Ken Will Morton. Once in a great while comes an artist of his caliber. His music is so alluring that it haunts me."
        -Kristy Ensor, Southeastern Charm

    "Southern sounding singer-songwriter Ken Will Morton's latest release True Grit brings to mind a cross between Tom Waits, Marah, Steve Earle circa Exit O and Ryan Adams overall Morton excels at a time when even alt.country is beginning to sound formulaic."
         -Glide Magazine
  • Ken Will Morton "True Grit" Release Feb
    02/12/2010
    Ken Will Morton celebrates the release of his debut recording on Sojourn Records with a show at The Basement in Nashville on Feb 12th at 8:30pm. "True Grit" is produced by Sojourn Records co-founder Mark Ambrosino and depicts the amazing songwriting and unique singing of a great Americana and rock performer.
  • "Higher & Higher" - Top Ten Album 2009
    12/30/2009
    Neshama Carlebach's new release on Sojourn Records, "Higher & Higher" has been named in Jim Bessman's Top ten albums of 2009. Bessman, writing for the Examiner (formerly at Billboard) lists "Higher&Higher" first on his list of the best of 2009. See the article here
  • Danny Kalb-I'm Gonna Live-Released
    10/27/2009
    Sony/RED working in partnership with Sojourn Records is distributing Danny Kalb's highly acclaimed recording "I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About" that was first introduced in late January 2009. The album is selling well and showing that Danny's fans have been waiting to pick back up with an old friend.
  • Shlomo Carlebach New Release
    10/27/2009
    A new Shlomo Carlebach recording, "Songs of Peace", with previously unreleased performances recorded live in 1973, is in stores as of October 27th and distributed in the US and Canada by Sony/RED and available here as well. Known as the "Father of Modern Jewish Music", Shlomo Carlebach died fifteen years ago - but his legacy lives on due to the continued playing and singing of his songs by millions of people worldwide. Neshama Carlebach, his daughter, has also played an integral role with her active promotion and performing of her father's music. With this recording, Neshama and the Estate of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach have collaborated with Sojourn Records to produce these fantastic recordings that were only dis covered in the last two years. Sojourn Records is honored to be a part of this release and believes that this music is extraordinary - an offering from a man no longer here, recorded over thirty-five years ago - yet strangely of this moment in time.
  • Shlomo Carlebach New Release
    10/24/2009
    A new Shlomo Carlebach recording, "Songs of Peace", with previously unreleased performances recorded live in 1973, is in stores as of October 27th and distributed in the US and Canada by Sony/RED and available here as well. Known as the "Father of Modern Jewish Music", Shlomo Carlebach died fifteen years ago - but his legacy lives on due to the continued playing and singing of his songs by millions of people worldwide. Neshama Carlebach, his daughter, has also played an integral role with her active promotion and performing of her father's music. With this recording, Neshama and the Estate of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach have collaborated with Sojourn Records to produce these fantastic recordings that were only dis covered in the last two years. Sojourn Records is honored to be a part of this release and believes that this music is extraordinary - an offering from a man no longer here, recorded over thirty-five years ago - yet strangely of this moment in time.
  • Neshama Carlebach -Oct. 13 - New Album
    10/13/2009
    Neshama Carlebach's new album, "Higher & Higher" recorded with The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir, is available as of October 13th. Recorded and Produced by Sojourn Records co-founder, Mark Ambrosino, "Higher & Higher" is being distributed by Sony/RED and will be in stores nationwide and is available here as well to purchase. Neshama and the Choir will be touring in support of the release and will be up and down the Eastern seaboard over the next month and a half and will be out on the west coast in December. Neshama's record will be followed by a new release by Shlomo Carlebach (her father) performing live in two separate performances in 1973. His album, "Songs of Peace", will be released on Oct. 27th.
  • Neshama Carlebach's New Release
    07/26/2009
    Sojourn artist Neshama Carlebach has released her newest recording "Higher and Higher" featuring the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir October 13th. Produced by Mark Ambrosino, this is an amazing collaboration combining the beautiful and haunting songs of Shlomo Carlebach with the very talented and powerful Bronx Gospel choir. Neshama's release will also be the first Sojourn album distributed by RED and will be available in stores everywhere for purchase as well as online here.
  • CRASH&BURN SIGNED TO SOJOURN
    07/26/2009

    CRASH&BURN signed a deal with Sojourn Records and started recording their first release due out in late 2009/early 2010. A duo that sounds like so much more, CRASH&BURN describes themselves as this:

     

  • Theo Eastwind on cover of AM NewYork
    06/13/2009
    Theo Eastwind, the infamous troubadour of the underground is featured on the cover of AM New York as the main voice behind "busker's" rights. Fifteen years working the subway has given Theo much expertise in wooing an audience and dealing with a sometimes less than friendly officer of the law. Theo is a staunch advocate of free speech and helped wage the battle to allow musicians to sell their wares as part of the 1st amendment's rights..


  • Cave Drawings Review
    06/03/2009
    Though I hadn't known a thing about Tom Laverack before I unexpectedly received a copy of his newest CD, Cave Drawings (Sojourn Records), two facts about him immediately caught my fancy. First was his involvement in the soundtracks of two independent horror flicks, Wendigo and The Last Winter, the first of which I'd actually seen on Sundance Channel one late night; second was the biographical detail that the man has made his living as a social worker in New York. Harder to gauge which is the more difficult avocation: laboring as a singer/songwriter or working in social services.
    Laverack's newest reportedly took over four years to complete and includes three tracks that appeared in the apocalyptic Winter. None too surprisingly, these three cuts ("Precious Little," "Running Out of Road," "No Shame") all share a fatalistic tone -- as do many of the other tracks, which tend toward rootsy mid-tempo rock or more mournful balladry with an occasional country soul lick tossed in for good measure. Listening to the mid-tempo opener, "Coney Island Heart," I found myself flashing on both Springsteen and Lou Reed, though Laverack's country-folkish delivery may get you thinking more of Steve Earle.
    To these ears, the more energetic tracks are the album's high points, though the insertion of soul sax by movie maker Larry Fessenden on a track like "Running Out of Road" is a particularly neat touch. Most striking of the slow 'uns turns out to be "Dead Dog," wherein the singer comes upon a boy mourning over a dead pet hit by a truck. "I'd give it all up if I ever made it," Laverack sings, "just to save this dead dog," even if he knows he just singing into the wind.
    Laverack's lyrics can be merciless when considering the state of nation ("Blinded by our entitlement, our dollar signs read 'In God We Trust,'" he notes on the lopingly soulful "Precious Little"), but he can also be sharp on a self-castigating track like "Foolish Enough to Think," where he laments his inability to change his own self-destructive habits. This willingness to shift from the blisteringly social (check out his nursing home rant, "No Shame") to the equally self-critical proves one of Laverack's strengths as a lyricist.
    Laverack's back-up is provided by group of steady sidemen: Marc Shulman, who has worked with Suzanne Vega, and Joel Hoekstra on guitars; bassist Jeff Langston and label co-president Mark Ambrosino, who provides a suitably strong Max Weinberg-y beat to it all. Hoekstra's stinging work on "Foolish Enough to Think" is a particular stand-out, though his thoughtfully hooky licks on "Coney Island Heart" are also worth noting.
    "You don't know if you'll leave behind anything after you're gone," Laverack sings on the disc's title song, adding that he's content to leave little memories of "how this world did feel" for those who are willing to listen. After regular plays of this evocatively grown-up set of rootsy vignettes, count me among the willing.

    -Bill Sherman

    Blogcritics

  • Tom Laverack's "Cave Drawings" Released
    05/20/2009
    After a long wait, Tom Laverack's newest release on the label he co-founded with Mark Ambrosino, is finally being released after delays with the launch of the Sojourn Records site. Cave Drawings, recorded over a period of almost four years, is the first collaboration between Ambrosino (producer, engineer and drummer) and Laverack. Cave Drawings expands on the Laverack's solo offerings by including rock n' roll alongside his quieter ballads, and melding styles to create a more cinematic and alternative structure to several songs.

    Cave Drawings helped bring about the creation of Sojourn Records by bringing Laverack and Ambrosino together as they worked on the project. In the end, the decision to start the label postponed the release of the record but is a move Laverack does not regret. "I feel fortunate to have this record coming out at a time when we have several releases becoming available." Laverack states. " In many ways it allows me to see this record in perspective. The one thing I'm sure of is that it deserves to be heard. And it's a record we can be proud to release".

    Sojourn Records released Danny Kalb's "I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About" in January 2009 and is releasing New York subway musician, Theo Eastwind's new release "King of the Underground" in July.

  • Theo Eastwind Enters the Station
    05/17/2009

    Ladies and Gentleman, the N train will be making all local stops... and Theo Eastwind's new album, King of the Underground is finally here. Theo, who worked with Mark Ambrosino at Sojourn Records (who recorded and produced this album), is releasing a full length acoustic and vocals-only album recorded live on the platform of the NYC subway over a few months in 2007. Though the actual location of the platform is a well-guarded trade secret, it is clearly under the streets of NYC and demonstrates Theo's amazing talent along with his dogged determination to highlight the subway musicians' world. What is apparent when listening is that the talent Theo has for songwriting and for pulling the listener in, exists despite any handicap that the location or fidelity might offer. Theo may be challenging himself while highlighting a location where he has spent many years making his living and growing an enormous fan base - and also selling 20,000+ CDs. This record has the flavor of a documentary without the images since there are many stories, both real and imagined within his life and music that provides a rich context to Theo's haunting vocals and open-tuned acoustic. Theo has been near the edges of "discovery" in his public domain, from encouraging words from Johnny Cash to arguing for 1st Amendment rights for street musicians on Fox 5 News, to playing one of the new songs from the Oasis release as part of the band's promotion in NYC. But he returns to the subway platform where he has grown comfortable and continues to be highly capable of earning a decent living while trying out new material. Glamorous, perhaps not, but riding freight trains in the early to mid 20th century wasn't for everyone either, and yet it is a rich part of American culture. Sojourn will get Theo back in the studio someday soon, but wanted to help him celebrate his art in an environment that he has grown to appreciate, and is at times an integral part of the arrangement.

  • Danny #5 on the Roots Blues Chart
    05/04/2009
    Danny continues to slowly rise up the Roots Blues chart with his new release. Many stations are giving him some regular airplay as Sojourn swings into third gear with its radio promotion with the assistance of Twin Vision, also fellow New Yorkers. Danny is currently booking shows all over the northeast. Let us know if you want him to come to your town!
  • Danny #7 on the Roots Blues Charts
    04/16/2009
    Danny's new release "I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About" moved up to #7 on the Roots Blues charts thanks to continued great support by a variety of radio stations. It's great to grab a little attention for Danny and Sojourn. Stations continue to add the record and At The Crossroads, a syndicated broadcast in Canada will be playing tracks from the record beginning at the end of April
  • Danny's #8 on Roots Blues Chart
    03/26/2009
    Danny's new release "I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About" moved up to #8 on the Roots Blues charts thanks to continued great support by a variety of radio stations. It's great to grab a little attention for Danny and Sojourn.
  • Danny Kalb Reviews - Excerpts
    02/08/2009
    Kalb's instrumental performance is consistently top notch. He makes that guitar sing, wail, plead, and cry. He carefully annunciates the lyrics so that their full meanings clearly come through for full effect. Kalb understands the dance between the words and the strings that give the acoustic music power to knock the listener out without the need for volume. He projects the blues by carefully attending to its meanings and nuances.
    -Steve Horowitz/Popmatters.com 1/16/09

    Danny has finally released the album that should have followed the breakup of The Blues Project over 40 years ago. His baritone voice is rich and strong. His guitar playing, both acoustic and electric is mesmerizing...The album treads the familiar ground of Little Richard, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker Reverend Gary Davis and Jimmy Reed, but Danny Kalb honors each songwriter by making each song his own. If you have ever questioned a white man's right to sing the blues you will never hear a more authentic blues man than Danny Kalb and this album is a testament to that fact. To hear him live in a small room is pure magic and this album captures that feeling.
    -Stan Beinstein/WDST-FM (Woodstock, NY)

    I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About proves that Danny Kalb is one of the best practitioners of the blues in music today. He has a long, if under the radar legacy, and it's good to hear him at his best. This album should be a definite buy.
    -David Bowling/Blogcritics.com 12/22

    Dan never ceases to sieve everything through an innovative eye and dexterous hand, and we can only hope that this new spate of activity and releases is the crossroads of a renewed old pro because master he was, master he is, and, the Fates willing, master he will continue to be for years to come.
    -Mark Tucker/AcousticMusic.com 12/10
  • Sojourn Launches with Danny Kalb Release
    01/05/2009
    Sojourn Records has officially launched as of January 27th, 2009 with a brand new website (still in beta) and Sojourn's first release "I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About" from Danny Kalb, the blues legend and founder of the Blues Project. Sojourn will be continuing to roll out new releases and adding additional artists every month while growing the label's artist and web community. Read more about Danny and his new release here.

    Sojourn is promoting a new hybrid model for a music "label" by combining the promotion of great artists with great sounding recordings (i.e. Motown) with the power of the Web 2.0 movement which looks to a community of artists and avid participants for its creative, innovative and promotional power. Check out the About Sojourn page to read more about the Sojourn model and artists who are lining up to get involved.

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