• country:
  United Kingdom
• style(s):
  Klezmer
• label:
  Piranha Musik Produktion & Verlag AG
• type:
  Band, Composer/Songwriter
• gender:
  male, female
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Piranha Musik Produktion & Verlag AG

"Oy, I gotta party to crash so let the cimbaloms bash
We got glasses to smash, we can get trashed
So buffet it up - yo, it's all you can drink
Say I do and do it all night (nudge nudge, wink wink)"
- Socalled


Solomon & So-called: the marriage of Fidl & Microphone!

Sophie Solomon is a fiddling firebrand, fusing the Klezmer 'fidl' tradition with the sound of the city and the new nitty-gritty, to name but two. She was a founder member of the acclaimed klezmer-meetz-beatz combo Oi Va Voi and is now unstoppably carving out an international solo career in her own right, which can't be wrong.

Socalled is a magician, cartoonist, pianist, photographer, animator, DJ & beat-writer whose first hip-hop EP 'The Socalled Seder' has been hailed as 'one of the greatest works of Jewish music in years' and not just by his mother. His beats appear on albums by David Krakauer and Frank London and he has produced tracks for many rap artists who have never forgotten the experience.

And so it was a blessed day, when Krakman played shadkhn and made the match, introducing Solomon, Klezmer breakbeatnik fiddler, to Socalled, master of matzo-deck. And it came to pass, via meshuga meeting of the mekhutonym, slivo-fuelled singalongs with Sruli & co and pickled cucumbers by the halflight of an icy Lower East Side dawn, that Klezmer saw the twinkle in Hip-hop's eye, proposals were made, a date set and invitations dispatched to the marriage of fidl and microphone!

Links

• Solomon & Socalled at Piranha