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All Singing All Dancing Collision

by Jacob Augustine

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In the winter of 2014, Jacob Augustine was holed up in a lakeside cabin in northern Maine. After releasing three albums in late 2011, he had taken a significant break from performing and writing. He announced his “last” show with a long hiatus planned and he wasn’t sure when he would return to music again. Then an old friend showed up, literally on his doorstep, demanding to play, to hear songs, refusing to accept this show as the last Augustine show for sometime. These sessions were aimless and unproductive at first and then a few weeks in, something clicked all at once and the creative floodgates opened. Jacob writes, “I rubbed my eyes and hit my head against the wall a bit, shook off the plaque that was clinging to my brain cells. In about 4 days time, I recorded 18 songs, by my count. Perhaps more. A few had been written before. Most had not.”

The material that poured out was the most raw and varied music Jacob had ever written. And in a few months time, he was back, performing with his first working band in years, touring nationally as he hadn’t since his early days in the hardcore scene, and making music at a higher level than ever before. 2015 was a year of near constant activity: writing, recording, traveling, and endless connections. A full-length record was made. The best recordings and most powerful songs of Jacob’s long career. Big plans were being made. And then things slowed to a stop. When you make music from life, from the world around you, from the people you love, from your core, your deepest beliefs, and your truth, you have to live to create and life can get in the way of creating. Family, in all meanings of the word, comes first.

Today, Jacob hasn’t been seen on stage in nearly two years. But he’s taken breaks from public view before, and he always returns, not when you may expect it, but perhaps when you may need it. We can’t say the man’s back, but he has offered up a gift in the form of those first recordings from winter 2014, across four EPs. Demos, in a sense, but these are not sketches pulled from the throw-away pile. These are songs, moments in time, snapshots of intense focus and love, captured away from view, without a thought toward anyone ever hearing them. “A collection of animal instinct. Intimate, alive, and real.” Therein lies their magic, indelible power, and warmth. That warmth, that invitation into a world of honest truth and pure expression; that’s something the world needs now, more than ever.

Don’t expect a tour announcement or that long-awaited Jacob Augustine 12” to arrive anytime soon, but in the meantime, you're invited inside these collections of songs, as they get released into the ether over the next weeks. Jacob writes, “I hope these songs offer you something you can take with you. I hope we can connect through them, as these songs are about us.” There is much more to come.

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released August 15, 2017

recorded by Jacob Augustine
with mixing & mastering assistance from Peter McLaughlin

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