Josh Reichmann
Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter
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Josh Reichmann is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter and filmmaker.[1]
Musical career
Formerly associated with the band Tangiers,[2] after that band's breakup he began performing under the stage name Jewish Legend.[3] He released his debut album as Jewish Legend, Telepathy Now!, in 2006.[4]
He went on to release the EP Life is Legal in 2008 as Josh Reichmann Oracle Band, and followed this with the full-length Crazy Power in 2009, both on the Paper Bag Records label.[5]
In 2009, he covered Bat for Lashes' song "Daniel" for The Seven Year Itch, a Paper Bag Records cover compilation.[6] In the same year, he and Sebastien Grainger of Death from Above 1979 released music together with the side project Bad Tits.[7]
At the end of the 2000s, Tangiers's first album, Hot New Spirits, was named as one of the top 10 Canadian records of the decade by Maclean's.[8]
Reichmann released the record After Live on Hand Drawn Dracula in 2011.[9]
Other endeavours
In 2011, Reichmann opened the clothing boutique Ruins with his partner Mikey Apples on Queen Street West in Toronto.[10] The store featured clothes by Opening Ceremony, Patrek Ervell, Thomas and Assembly NYC and other international brands. Ruins closed in 2012,[11] and Reichmann moved into other media projects including screenwriting and motion pictures.[citation needed]
His debut feature film Tenzin, co-directed with Michael LeBlanc, premiered in 2021 at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival prior to commercial release in 2022.[12]