Rolling Stone Premieres Jake Bellows's "I Know You"

Rolling Stone Premieres Jake Bellows's "I Know You" MP3Debut Solo Album New Ocean Out August 6 On Saddle Creek Download: "I Know You" via Rolling Stone or SoundCloudWatch: New Ocean Album Trailer via YouTube
Rolling Stone has premiered Jake Bellows's new MP3 "I Know You" from his debut solo albumNew Ocean out August 6 on Saddle Creek. Bellows told Rolling Stone, "'I Know You' attempts to illustrate the commonality of the human experience. When we look at someone who smiles, we know what it is to feel happy. When we see someone sad, we can instantly identify with that feeling. We have empathy for one another. We're on the same planet having the same experiences from different perspectives." New Ocean was recorded at Omaha's ARC Studios with engineer Ben Brodin (Before the Toast and Tea, Conor Oberst), Ryan Fox (The Good Life), Todd Fink (The Faint), and Heath Koontz (Neva Dinova). New Ocean is now available for pre-order on CD & LP via Saddle Creek and limited edition cassette through Majestic Litter. Jake Bellows is currently on tour and will play shows in Salt Lake City, Portland, San Francisco and more.  On June 26 at 8pm CST, Jake Bellows will perform live on Stageit, a web-based platform that enables artists to easily create live shows directly from their computers. The online performances streamed on Stageit are not archived, so it remains a truly unique experience for the virtual attendees. Tickets are for the performance are available now.
Jake Bellows had quit music. Or so he thought.  After fronting Neva Dinova for more than 15 years, which included five full-lengths, a split EP, and countless tours, he packed up his dog and moved from his native Omaha to his girlfriend's hometown of Los Angeles. Two days before he left he recorded 18 demos with musician and engineer Ben Brodin at Brodin's insistence. Once in L.A., Bellows got a job installing sliding-glass doors and sold his Les Paul to buy a Datsun pick-up truck.
Though he had no plans to form a new band, he played the occasional solo show, performed withWhispertown, and continued to write songs. In early 2011, an invitation arrived from Omaha's Film Streams Theater for Jake's old friend Ryan Fox also living on the West Coast, to perform an original live film-score. Fox enlisted Bellows and Brodin to collaborate and the trio began to compose and discuss improvisational ideas over long-distance. Since they were all going to be in Omaha and had a long history of playing in each other's bands, Brodin and Fox nudged Bellows into booking studio time to record some of his dormant songs.
Fox and Bellows drove from LA to Omaha that November. They entered ARC Studios for a feverish recording session, arranging and writing parts on the fly with an impromptu band including Heath Koontz, Todd Fink, Whispertown bandmate Morgan Nagler and other old friends. Committing quickly to intuitive arrangements the band recorded 17 tracks in a little more than a week. They worked remotely on the record throughout that winter and spring, adding overdubs in basements and bedrooms across western North America.
The group reunited in Omaha to debut the new songs at a couple of shows the following June. Excited to release the new material on their own terms the band put out a preview EP on cassette, Help, at the end of 2012. The new music is underpinned by philosophical conviction and shaped by an interest in physics, cosmology and mythology. Bellows returned to music with a renewed sense of the intrinsic value of art and its ability to express the commonality of human experience. His debut full-length, New Ocean, offers a mix tape of different kinds of songs hanging out on one record - love songs that are not necessarily ballads despite their introspective gauziness, with left turns into drunk-in-the-sun bossa nova and blue-eyed-soul ruptured by fuzz guitar. Bellows believes that songs change the fabric of the universe through the very frequencies they emit. As such, the record attempts to create the world he wants to see instead of reflect the world that is.
Jake Bellows Tour Dates
06.23 - Salt Lake City, UT @ TBD06.25 - Portland, OR @ Valentines06.26 - Live Streaming Show via Stageit, 8pm Central06.26 - Portland, OR - House Show (email info@majesticlitter.com for details)06.29 - Chehalis, WA @ Devilfish Public House07.01 - Cottage Grove, OR @ Axe and Fiddle07.02 - Redding, CA @ Willis Street House07.03 - Chico, CA @ Café Coda07.04 - San Francisco, CA - House Show BBQ
For more info, please visit:
http://jakebellows.com/http://saddle-creek.com/