songs from home

JEC

This album roughly reflects a timeline of my recordings over the past 3 years living in my current townhouse. I imagine the progression of this album as moving from room to room, following the same order in which I began recording in my house, starting alone in my bedroom (songbird). From my room I find myself with a small band (it came from) and then at a party occurring downstairs (hello) from which I take a smoke break in the backyard, alone (smoke break) eventually moving to the garage (im gone) and finally, like rewinding a tape, looking back on everything that has led me here (arrival). 

The soundscape that I aimed to live in in this ep is somewhere between ambient and meditative with an underlying impression of anxiety and anger. I enjoyed an amount of unease with some of the songs, allowing them not to sit hard in a groove and letting individual pieces be a little out of tune and out of time with each other in order to produce a more raw and authentic atmosphere. There is beauty that comes out in how the pieces do line up, and in what they have to say, as they are.

birdsong

Jake Chaffee - Bass, Composer, Arranger
Aramis Fernández - Drums
Steven Sellers - Pedal Steel
Mitch Solkov - Composition

it came from

Jake Chaffee - Bass, Vox, Whistle, Solo Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Composer, Arranger
Steven Sellers - Acoustic Guitar
Aramis Fernández - Drums

hello

Jake Chaffee - Bass, Vox, Acoustic Guitar, Composer, Arranger
Joseph Spence - Vox
Liam Mccabe - Electric Guitar, Lyrics
Aramis Fernández - Drums

smoke break

Jake Chaffee - Electric Bass, composition

im gone

Jake Chaffee - Bass, Vox, Acoustic Guitar, Composer, Arranger
Steven Sellers - Pedal Steel, Acoustic Guitar
Chris Cain - Electric Guitar
Joseph Spence - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Aramis Fernández - Drums

arrival

Jake Chaffee - Electric Bass, Composition, Arranger
Joseph Spence - Acoustic Guitar, Composition
August Knobbe - Keys, Composition
Seth Blitstien - Flugel
Aramis Fernández - Drums

Recording, Mixing, and Mastering all done by Jake Chaffee at JEC Studio
Special thanks to: Austin Martinez, Federico Llach, Joey, Mom and Dad

Contact

jakechaffeemusic@gmail.com

562-370-6464