This week’s episode is a special one featuring our cover of “Dizzy” and 3 other tracks in celebration of almost-birthday-boy Jim Adkins; Our cover of Crooked Fingers’ Call To Love, an original composition called “Fortune Teller” that maybe makes mention of Jim himself, and a brand new cover of Jim’s song “Hell” that was released on his solo album. Listen now on Spotify or Anchor!Or read … Continue reading Static Unveiled: S1E5 – Dizzy
Hey heyyy Hope everyone’s having a good weekend. This week on November 10th I have a new track hitting all your favourite streaming services. It’s a fun rock/folk song called “Fortune Teller” which is loosely about manifesting your destiny by any means necessary. You can pre-save the song now if you’re a Spotify user here. Oh, and heads up, today I’ll be doing a sorta-unplanned … Continue reading Jaimee Jakobczak Release: Fortune Teller (Pre-Save Now!)
Surprise! Over the weekend I shot a music video. Watch the official music video for Quiksand now on my YouTube Channel! About the Video On Saturday April 30th I went over to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre to fulfil a goal I’d never attempted before. I grabbed my acoustic guitar and set out to perform a full acoustic set for anyone who happened to be heading … Continue reading Jaimee Jakobczak Release: Quiksand Official Music Video
To celebrate the release of Jestem Krzywym Lasem, I ran a very limited run of CD’s. Like, very limited. Get a copy now before they’re all gone because I’m 100% not running them this way ever again; that’s not a marketing ploy, I’m just literally not doing that. Buy the Record on the Crooked Forest Virtual Merch Store via BigCartel Now! If you buy a … Continue reading Jestem Krzywym Lasem Now Available on CD
While writing my debut solo EP, Jestem Krzywym Lasem, I found myself thinking a lot about an old online friend of mine named Sean Gallagher. As it would happen, this led to a lot of decisions that made the final record, so I wanted to take a bit of time to tell you all a little about him. If you’ve been following my Twitter though, … Continue reading Sean Gallagher
We’re quickly approaching the official release date of Jesyem Krzywym Lasem, and today we’re focusing in on track 4, “Butterflies”. This was a late addition to the record, I actually had already begun mixing the final EP when I felt like I wasn’t completing the thought of the overall record, so I knew I needed to add something new. So on Monday September 27th, I … Continue reading Jestem Krzywym Lasem Track by Track: Butterflies
Today brings us to track 3 on Jestem Krzywym Lasem, here’s our breakdown of “Without You”. I’ve spoken a bit about “Without You” before, even sharing a snap from when and where it was written back in December 2020. I had actually woken up one morning and some of the lyrics started swirling around my head as I worked up the strength to get out … Continue reading Jestem Krzywym Lasem Track by Track: Without You
Continuing our crusade through Jesyem Krzywym Lasem from the previous overview post, here’s our track by track breakdown of the first song on the record, “Quiksand”. Quiksand was the first song I wrote that I realized pretty quickly it didn’t quite fit in with all the other songs I was working on at the time. It was somehow musically even more toned down than any … Continue reading Jestem Krzywym Lasem Track By Track: Quiksand
Following up on our blog about Jestem Krzywym Lasem, here’s our track by track breakdown of the first single from the record, track 2’s “Driveway”. “Driveway” was really the catalyst for deciding that I needed to branch away from (ha!) the Crooked Forest name for this EP and put it out under my given name. But knowing full well that this was just another piece … Continue reading Jestem Krzywym Lasem Track By Track: Driveway
This is a multi-series blog post. Table of Contents at the bottom of the page. Yesterday I announced the release date of my upcoming EP, “Jestem Krzywym Lasem” which is the debut solo EP I’m presenting as myself, Jaimee Jakobczak. Now, if you’ve frequented these trails before you might be saying, “but Jaimee, you’ve released like, 4 other EP’s already as a solo artist” and … Continue reading What’s “Jestem Krzywym Lasem” All About Anyways?
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