| Socalled |
Socalled is a musician, photographer, magician and writer based in Montreal. He was born Josh Dolgin in Ottawa, Ontario and raised just north, in Chelsea, Quebec. As a kid he was always in musicals and drew cartoons for the Ottawa Citizen. He hated soccer. He was bribed by his mother tocontinue piano lessons until high school, then he picked up theaccordion. He wrote for the newspaper and played in any kind of band -salsa, gospel, rock, funk - then discovered MIDI and hip hop. He worked with rappers, he made madd beats, he got into studios. He graduated from McGill and made a 50 minute animated film for the Canada Council, meanwhile writing for Hour Magazine and performing. He has now appeared on a dozen recordings as pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, writer and producer. He rocks the machine in David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!, sings with Toronto-based Beyond the Pale, performs with home-base band Shtreiml in Montreal, with LA-based the Aleph Project. He conducts the Addath Israel choir for High Holidays. Socalled performs and records widely with a crew of mixed-up freaks and geniuses from around the world, including Killah Priest, Gonzales, C-Rayz Walz, Susan Hoffman-Watts, Frank London, and Irving Fields. He has produced tracks for many rap acts, as well as the Greekbea soundtrack for the award-winning documentary Man of Greece. His own documentaries and animations have won many awards at the McGill Film Festival. Socalled's self-released EP The Socalled Seder was hailed in the Yiddish Forward as "one of the greatest works of Jewish music in years." MP3s: http://popmontreal.com/goldkicks/LMPG.mp3 |