 I've been playing music my whole life and Larry for like the past 20 years has been coming into my shop and jamming just like this and a lot of my background is for Mediterranean music and I met these guys one by one and I shared my Mediterranean experience with a bunch of really talented artists that come from all over actually Slavic influence we have jazz influence we have soul influence Mediterranean and a twist of the Italiano anyways so beautiful was a song that Mike and I did actually on a TV show right here in the spot that we're playing and it was called the Steve Katz old show so it's fun for us to be here tonight but mostly I would say beautiful was about you're doing your daily groove in life you walk the same path you walk the same bus you go to the same bus stop you walk the same sidewalk and they can maybe always be someone there that you wanted to talk to and you have your head set on and and you just like but you don't beautiful was kind of the lyrics were inspired by that we said it like just kind of picture someone hanging and walking in the same path for a long time and they never talked to that person but they kind of go their way and they just they know they're beautiful and it's you'll you'll get it when we play but there you go that's a little backdrop thanks Larry but um all right called Karaguna it's a rhythm that I that I chose from northern Greece you know most of my rhythm stuff came from my dad teaching us these Greek rhythms so like I took this Mediterranean rhythms and I really love like obviously the blues and things like that growing up here so this one is a combination really of like our world sound but we really like took this groove and we all put our personalities in it it's called the tune is called Karaguna gonna continue the story about the barbershop because that's where it started the shop yeah because the shop Anthony's a very gracious person and at night he's playing music and lets lots of people who walk and buy curious invites them in talks around the neighborhood a lot he's talking to me the first time I got a haircut there probably over a year ago as you could tell and he we started talking music and he goes I gotta come by the shop gotta come by the shop and so he and I started playing just acoustic just the bazookie in the base for a long time like six months or something actually before we even had before Ali walked into the shop and and and Anthony kept saying we got to get the groove we got to get the groove we don't have to get a drummer we don't have to do anything till we get the groove and once we got the groove we got the drummer and he was thinking you Mike and but he said let's just get it together first so we did that and then one day he was I guess at the what do you call it the falafel store down the street and he bumps in at protrusion and he bumps into Ali talking probably music again the next thing we know she's a Berkeley student and she's in the music production but she can sing and she came and sang and blew us away we decided to do an album together while back it just happened and and of course like Ali is is we all love her so much she's been such a big big part of all this so Ken and I but between everybody Bill Ali Larry Mike and all of us we we went in the studio and recorded an album that we call Saklamara that's the name of our band Saklamara well and then in live at the Den yeah we with our buddy Doug in North Reading at a studio called the Den studio it was magical experience that we all experienced in Bill's wonderful guitar playing but also wonderful girlfriend made a nice candle at dinner for us that day we had a blast and now but so like going forward from here like those were all songs from that album and and you know as far as like you know Ken and I we we were talking about how we brought this like really high-pitched instrument traditionally it is paired up with a upright bass in a music called you know Rebecca and Greek music has many styles but like anyways this is really has been just a collaboration so thank you studio sessions for having us because we were enjoying it and we're gonna play yeah we got our studio we got our little studio audience here thank you guys that makes it fun but we're gonna we're gonna play a couple of more tunes you know we're gonna we're gonna do that but thank you for having us Jeff and we'll keep the tape rolling and we'll go into heavy G and thank you for the lighting crew and the crew that showed up today for this this has been it's been fun but like I said we're gonna we're gonna rock out on a couple more tunes but Ken you're gonna close this up this this conversation yeah cuz I took it from you so like I want to hit it back I think again very gracious anyway he's almost ready we're almost ready to begin but this has been a real journey I gotta say what I know is really true we're all good friends we really respect each other as musicians we're trying to find the center of the music when we get there it's a place we all love and that's what keeps us going well said behalf of the band I'm gonna speak Bill we had a good time we are suck Lamara hey Larry you want to give us that old soul beat in Allington studio Jeff and I and Katie the director today we all worked on the Steve Katzow show and here we are closing out studio sessions to a tune that I wrote on Monotomy Rock Park pond this old lady and everybody this time of year keeps walking around and she kept she kept looking at me I had to do that but she kept looking at me in a way where she just looked like she had something to say in a kind of a wisdom kind of way and I was just sitting there and she kept going around and she kept saying hi to me when she kept coming back around to me and it was one of those days where like stuff starting to grow at springtime and and that's what old soul inspired and of course suck Lamara put their art on top of this so thank you guys thank you that was great that was really great thank you wow Jeff here you are studio sessions welcome the band is amazing Tony you're very familiar with the space we're glad to have you back oh thank you in the studio Mike to create great to see you guys it's a tough genre to to to find the eclectic music that you guys are playing is really fun and we got to hear a little bit about the background of how you guys came together and who's you know kind of pulling in the these world-class musicians it is amazing to hear all of these instruments together and do you guys rehearse in the barbershop that's what I want we do but we like to have we like to have like we we'd like to have like a couple of tequilis and hang on play music and to and we're friends too so like we don't just rehearse we actually hang out now fun too but yes of course the barbershop lights go down and it becomes it's been a rehearsal space for like 28 years you know we're constantly making stuff up as we're rehearsing just new stuff well just all of a sudden do something new so we we're sort of growing out ahead of ourselves it's really fun yeah it's blast it's it's it's nice to play original music and be creative with the people while and have that experience it's different than just a regular GB gig like so like for us we've been having fun being creative but that you know it's not so much a conversation the conversations in the music wonderful can you introduce the man yeah so again Ali ended up we meeting next door you know Ali um Aliona Sorakina but man she has contributed in a big way say a quick hello hi guys that's all I can say in English that is not true by the way no Ali you've been like such a joy for all of us to have be around your energy is a gift and I feel like really blessed to be playing with you I think we all feel the same way I'm gonna say Mike can you say a quick hi hi everybody okay Mikey is is by far most solid beat you're gonna hear thank you very much man all right Mike there's never a day where he doesn't like deliver that that solid rhythm man it's just the groove is awesome and we're again just as blessed to have Mike Ali when we introduce you to this guy when they get going and start singing and stuff to we just understand each other on the stage we will you know when you guys get going and start singing together and playing together connecting like like Ken says when we get to that place I always enjoy that with you guys all right Larry a few words here just great to be here it's great to be playing with everybody here it's great to see you all here and thank you thank you thank you who's this guy anything else you wanted to say before we give it to the guy behind you over there this guy man Ken and Bill are friends and Ken really wanted me to meet Bill for a long time and I'm so glad we did he's just a megaton and a wealth of knowledge and an awesome groove or he can groove he can play lead he can play rhythm he can do something you've never heard before anybody ever do just awesome you guys say something I often do stuff I've never heard before it's a really it's a fun band to play with and I was doing a session with Ken and he talked me into coming down and playing with the Greek guy you got to hear this guy I'm just grabbing a tiger by the tail most of the time and trying to find a place to fit in but it's been a lot of fun that actually is the gift that he has to offer that he can do that absolutely we're gonna wrap it up here for studio sessions I want to thank Sakamaru for being here and it's been it's been a treat for the cast and crew everybody thank you very much for being here and I don't do this I don't ever step on the side of the camera but Anthony asked me to so here I am I really appreciate it so studio sessions thank you guys and that's a wrap thank you everybody