Friday, June 5th, 2009...9:33 am
Socalled rocks a beloved Yiddish melody, with help from Theodore Bikel
Socalled (a.k.a. Josh Dolgin), the mixmaster from Montreal, has created an amazing music video for “(Rock The) Belz,” from the album Ghettoblaster (JDub Records). The four-and-a-half minute puppet piece — featuring Socalled, folk legend Theodore Bikel and rapper Sans Pression — was directed by Kaveh Nabatian and produced by Sach Baylin-Stern. You can find more Socalled music and videos on MySpace. (You should check out everyone’s favorite Socalled tune, ”You Are Never Alone,” along with the supremely weird video version.) Socalled — who recorded The Socalled Seder (”a hip hop Haggadah”) a few years ago — also plays with trombonist Fred Wesley (formerly of the James Brown band) and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer in a group called Abraham, Inc. — Mordecai Specktor
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