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Josh « Socalled » Dolgin est un pianiste, accordéoniste, réalisateur,
compositeur, arrangeur, rappeur, chanteur, journaliste, photographe, cinéaste,
magicien, auteur de bandes dessinées, dramaturge et marionnettiste établi à
Montréal, Québec. Il a donné des classes de maître et des conférences dans de
nombreux festivals de musique de tous les continents, de Moscou à Paris, de
Londres à Los Angeles, de Cracovie à San Francisco. Avec cinq albums solos à
son nom, il tourne et enregistre partout dans le monde depuis plus de 10 ans,
ayant collaboré avec Gonzales, Fred Wesley, Boban Markovic, The Mighty
Sparrow, Lhasa, Roxanne Shanté, Irving Fields, Yves Lambert, Killah Priest,
Matisyahu, Theodore Bikel, Oliver Jones, Enrico Macias et Derrick Carter,
croisant les cultures, les générations et les religions sans frontière. En fait,
Socalled fait tellement d’affaires qu’il a été le sujet du documentaire The
Socalled Movie, réalisé par Garry Beitel pour l’Office national du film du Canada
en 2010.
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Socalled Biography
Welcome to the eclectic world of master mixer, cratedigger, musical continent-spanner SoCalled, AKA Josh Dolgin. Looking beyond the usual pantheon of samples for hip hop artists, Socalled explores the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the Yiddish vaudeville stages of 2nd Avenue for inspiration.
Armed with his Akai MPC, heritage and love for genre-bending music, SoCalled is a Yiddish rapping, accordion wielding, Klezmer hip hop maestro. Heralded by Jewish, Klezmer, and hip hop musicians alike, he builds Jewish music from the bottom-up.
“Hip hop is all about representing who you are, your crew. I’m this little white Jewish dude living in the country. It doesn’t make sense for me to rap about guns, cars, and hos. I’m not going to rap about hos. What should I make music about? I should try to represent who I am. When I began digging for samples, I found these old Jewish records, and they were a clue about this funky, old tradition that had been forgotten. Yiddish theater, Cantorial music...all kinds of weird sounds…and the records had the most amazing breaks! And I realized that I could make my hip hop - my music from them.” –SoCalled
Read MoreArmed with his Akai MPC, heritage and love for genre-bending music, SoCalled is a Yiddish rapping, accordion wielding, Klezmer hip hop maestro. Heralded by Jewish, Klezmer, and hip hop musicians alike, he builds Jewish music from the bottom-up.
“Hip hop is all about representing who you are, your crew. I’m this little white Jewish dude living in the country. It doesn’t make sense for me to rap about guns, cars, and hos. I’m not going to rap about hos. What should I make music about? I should try to represent who I am. When I began digging for samples, I found these old Jewish records, and they were a clue about this funky, old tradition that had been forgotten. Yiddish theater, Cantorial music...all kinds of weird sounds…and the records had the most amazing breaks! And I realized that I could make my hip hop - my music from them.” –SoCalled
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