Shemspeed and K Records artist Eprhyme has just released his brand new single “Gimme Shelter”, just in time for Sukkot. Eprhyme wrote and recorded the track for the San Francisco JCC’s Sukkot Installation Exhibit titled Gimme Shelter. Starting with the Rolling Stones classic anthem “Gimme Shelter,” Eprhyme juxtaposes classic rock with Sukkot symbolism, travel tales from the Torah and with ancient archetypes. Epryhme describes it as a “poetic snapshot of the dynamic inner tension of Jewish collective consciousness, namely, that which noted historian Yosef Yerushalmi characterized as the state of ‘being ideologically in exile and existentially at home.’” He writes that, “We hope to convey a sense of freedom and belonging coupled with religious awe and existential vulnerability.”
The Gimme Shelter exhibition has launched online at www.jccsf.org/gimmeshelter and in the sukkah of the JCCSF on Tuesday, September 21. The version in the sukkah will be up until Sunday, October 3, and the online version will remain on our website in perpetuity.
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.