World Music: SoCalled, "These Are the Good Old Days"
(Canada) The caterpillar-like apparition on your screen is Montreal-based Josh Dolgin, otherwise known as Deejay SoCalled. His extraordinarily eclectic approach to Jewish music is at once innovative and controversial. Those who reminisce about Jewish music from the Old Country, or even the post-war New World jazz influenced variations, may have a hard time swallowing Dolgin's mashups. But his sources remain clear, even through the hip hop recitation and programmed loops, and he collaborates regularly with both "traditional" and cutting edge klezmer luminaries. Dolgin writes that he is a musician, photographer, magician and writer, and the visual fun of this video is certainly based on the concept of magic.
(Canada) The caterpillar-like apparition on your screen is Montreal-based Josh Dolgin, otherwise known as Deejay SoCalled. His extraordinarily eclectic approach to Jewish music is at once innovative and controversial. Those who reminisce about Jewish music from the Old Country, or even the post-war New World jazz influenced variations, may have a hard time swallowing Dolgin's mashups. But his sources remain clear, even through the hip hop recitation and programmed loops, and he collaborates regularly with both "traditional" and cutting edge klezmer luminaries. Dolgin writes that he is a musician, photographer, magician and writer, and the visual fun of this video is certainly based on the concept of magic.
