Members/Instruments:
Gene “Noizepunk” Pritsker – composer, guitarist, rapper
David “Criminal Cello” Gotay – rapper, cellist
Greg “B-man” Baker – guitarist
Charles “Das Krooner” Coleman – singer
Chanda Rule – voice
Franz Hackl – trumpet
Mat Fieldes  – bassist
David Rosenblatt  – drummer
Guest performers such as: James “The Prophet” Gotay (rapper), Dave Taylor (trombone), John Clark (horn), Vessko Gellev (violinist), Dan Barret cellist/conductor), Mychio Suzuki (clarinetist), Margaret Lancaster (flutist), Melenie Mitrano (voice) and many other outstanding musicians throughout the years.

Year Formed: 1996

1.Past: What is your musical background? What has led you to this point?
The members of Sound Liberation are all Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music (MSM) trained musicians. In fact David Gotay and I (G. Pritsker) met at MSM and decided to start a project that combines our love for classical music and hip-hop. Most of the music that I write uses elements from various musical cultures and in Sound Liberation I compose this type of music for a specific ensemble made up of musicians who are comfortable within the various styles/genres.

2.Present: Where are you at now in your career? What are you currently working on?
As a composer I am writing many large scale works for various ensembles (orchestral and chamber). For example: Tangent to Curves for chamber orchestra to be premiered at the Bremen Muiskfest ’09. For Sound Liberation I have just written a one and half hour Suite called Varieties of religious Experiences Suite (VRE Suite). We are premiering the full piece at the Flea Theater in New York on May 29th. We want to record the full suite and shop that to record labels. The piece is for 2 guitars, cello, bass and drums. its an instrumental suite with lots of improvisation, so we are looking for a jazz/improv-like label.

We have also just finished producing a DVD of my hip-hop opera (that we have performed around the world in past years). We are now shopping the DVD to record labels for release as well.

3.Future: What’s coming up for you? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
As a band I would like Sound Liberation to record more albums, get radio play and tour. We are trying to get more exposure through internet radio. In september ’09 a song from our new album ‘Open up Your Ears and Get some’ will be feature in a new motion picture called ‘The Wedding Brothers’. The song is called ‘No Truth’. We hope this gains us some national exposure, so look out for it.

4.Where can people find more of your music?
Our Sites:
www.soundliberation.net
www.genepritsker.com
www.myspace.com/soundliberation
www.myspace.com/genepritsker

Videos:
www.youtube.com/noizepunk

Go here to purchase our album.

Go here to preview our new album.

5.Anything you’d like to plug?
Sound Liberation is performing 2 nights at the Flea Theater in New York
May 29th – VRE Suite
May 30th – Sound Liberation & B3+

Here’s a great review of our album.