Allow me to reiterate,

My brother and I have finally formalized our artistic collaboration by forming a real side project: The Smigel Brothers!!



Our first digital single, “I Stayed Up All Night,” is AVAILABLE NOW!!! on iTunes, and may also be found on Rhapsody, Napster, AmazonMP3, Lime Wire, etc…. or you can download the MP3 directly through CDBaby. This track was inspired by our hard working one-time neighbors: Jason and Eddie Wallace. The piece is an admittedly bizarre pitch-shifted rap song about the Wallace Brother’s blue-collar adventures, and how they were able to work such long hours: by drinking coffee through a beer bong!! I hope it speaks to you…



Speaking of my brother Jesse Smigel, he recently launched a new blog that is top notch. It’s called Bad film, kitties, and team gulps! and explores those topics almost exclusively. If any of those topics interest you, please pay him a visit.



I recently returned from Eugene, OR. A land of moisture, home-gardening, home-saunas, home-everything actually… where I mixed and mastered a new collection of my music and found sound. This CD will be a 14-track collection of non-rap hard-to-find singles, compilation tracks, found sounds, live, and unreleased songs spanning the years 2004 to 2009. The collection was given “the treatment” on an impressive wall of analogue gear at Gung-Ho Studio in Eugene (“Home of the Hits!”) by friend Michael Lavin and I am really very pleased with the results. My hope is that these songs will sound new, even to those who have heard them before. The album is called “Hope This Passes The Secretary…” and will be released through my website (www.jacobsmigel.com) soon (hopefully before the new year!!), and will be $12 US postage-paid.



A few people have asked me if pre-orders will be available, and after considering it, I have decided to simplify the process by not doing so. The CD has a first (and last) pressing of 500 so there should be plenty to go around.



Absolutely,



Jacob Smigel





jacob@jacobsmigel.com

www.jacobsmigel.com

www.myspace.com/jacobsmigel