Socalled
Josh Dolgin is a Montreal-based music producer, piano player, and accordionist who makes eclectic hip-hop under the stage alias Socalled. Klezmer, folk music, and funk are among the styles and genres Dolgin incorporates into a lively mix of singing and rapping. Socalled's debut album was a collaboration with British composer Sophie Solomon titled HiphopKhasene, released by Piranha in 2003. Clarinetist David Krakauer was a featured performer on the album, and Dolgin returned the favor by appearing with on Krakauer's Live in Krakow (Label Bleu) the same year. Socalled contributed to Beyond the Pale's album Consensus: Live in Concert in 2005, the same year he released The So Called Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah for JDub Records. Ghettoblaster followed in 2006 on the French label Bleu Electric before it received a U.S. release in 2007 by JDub.
In 2010, Dolgin was the subject of a documentary entitled The Socalled Movie for the National Film Board of Canada. Lorber Films oversaw the U.S. theatrical release. His album SleepOver arrived in 2011 with guests including rapper Roxanne Shante, vocalist Katie Moore, and then-95-year-old pianist Irving Fields. Two years later, Dare to Care Records released a cast recording of his puppet musical The Season. In addition to Dolgin, it included performances by Moore, Yves Lambert, Rich Ly, and Yassin Alsalman, aka Narcy. The same label issued 2015's People Watching, which featured over two-dozen guests (including Narcy, Moore, Lambert, and Ly), and 2017's Tales from Odessa, "A Socalled Yiddish Musical."
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ghettoblaster
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by JDub Records on 19 Sep 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The 2nd Season
Film Soundtracks - Released by Bravo musique on 16 Aug 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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The Socalled Seder - A Hip-Hop Haggadah
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by JDub Records on 28 Jun 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Peace Is Better Than War
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by YourMusicGroup on 3 Mar 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Season
Pop - Released by Bravo musique on 14 May 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Di Frosh
World - Released by Socalled Entertainment on 21 Sep 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Passover 2013: A Twenty-First Century Seder
Folk - Released by Celebration Sounds on 12 Mar 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Eh to Zed (Canadian Music)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by YourMusicGroup on 28 Feb 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Socalled Instrumentals
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by YourMusicGroup on 17 Jul 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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No Concept (Multitasking)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by YourMusicGroup on 13 Feb 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Purim Purim Purim (Rash Rash Rash)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by YourMusicGroup on 17 Feb 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Yiddish Meydl
World - Released by Socalled Entertainment on 24 Aug 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Internet Killed Me (Screenshot)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by YourMusicGroup on 3 Feb 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Roumanishe Kretchme
World - Released by Socalled Entertainment on 7 Sep 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Di Frosh
World - Released by Socalled Entertainment on 10 Aug 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo