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The Golem Rescored Release

2021 is the 100th year anniversary of the theatrical release of The Golem, the Jewish Frankenstein, a film that not only directly inspired many moments of the Boris Karloff Frankenstein film, but also helped create one of the most well known Jewish fables about the occult and about the dark shadows that hide some of the most profound Jewish ideas.  

To celebrate this anniversary, Reboot is cutting up the Golem film into eight parts, creating an episodic series with new scores by renowned musicians and hosted by preeminent scholars, composers and film historians discussing the significance of the film and its music and taking a deep dive into the Jewish history, occultism, Hollywoodism, traditions and astrology.

Launched October 28, 2021. Watch the entire series here.

Hosted by: John K Bucher and and Torri Yates-Orr of the Skeleton Keys Podcast

Featuring new scores by: Threshing Floor, Margaret Baird, Charlie Saufley, Jeremiah Lockwood, Universal Eyes, Michael Morley, Sharon Gal, Marika Hughes and Shahzad Ismaily, Yamataka Eye from the Boredoms, Scott Amendola, Steven Drozd and Steve Berlin.

Guests include: Kate Scelsa, Maya Barzilai, Ken Goldberg, Jeremiah Lockwood, Justin Sledge, Mitch Horowitz, Riva Lehrer and Ina Archer.

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Ten Commandments: A Film Rescored

For Passover 2021, Reboot released a modern-day score to Cecil B. Demille’s 1923 classic silent film The Ten Commandments with Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips) and Scott Amendola. The artists collaborated to create the momentous new score for the Exodus tale, musically following Moses out of Egypt and into the Dessert where he receives the Ten Commandments. Watch it now here

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Threshing Floor

Premiering at DAWN, watch this experimental video piece obliquely inspired by the Book of Ruth. The Threshing Floor was an experimental experiment, improvising together apart during a time of plague, taking a usual time of togetherness reverberations and mediations and instead finding a unified voice by sharing ideas across currents, many miles apart, and using the time tested accompanist named chance to take the beautiful wandering vibrations and lace them together into the blanket of sound before you.

The film accompanies the album release on August 27, 2021. Learn more, download the digital file, and buy the LP here!

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Dixie Plus Dreidel

Guitarist and vocalist Luther Dickinson and jazz musician Sharisse Norman, of the Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars, welcome us to Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Lighting the second night of candles for Reboot’s Hanukkah, Luther and Sharisse ask us to “Give Light” to those suffering from loneliness, depression, homelessness and hunger. And, together they serve up some Dixie plus dreidel.