Making this record was an exercise in trusting the process and letting go of control. On “I Love You and I’m Sorry", I painstakingly obsessed over every lyric and overdub and recorded a most of it in solitude during the pandemic. For this new album I attempted the opposite and tried to relinquish as much control as I could stomach. This is a band record. We spent 6 days sitting in a circle taking skeletons of songs and arranging them into what you hear today.
Under Gavin and James’s direction, the album came together through true collaboration. I would play the band a song, and then we would record live takes all together into a Tascam 388 tape machine until we felt we had captured it.
The songs on this record are slightly more personal and political than my last album. To quote my Dad when I played it for him: “Even the jokes on this album are a bit sadder”. Since my last album I’ve had two kids, lost my job, and watched the world descend deeper in to fascism and dispair. While I had spent the better part of the last 3 years writing songs for this record, we ended up recording mostly songs that had only been written in the weeks leading up to the session through a “song every week” club where some friends and I all have to write and submit a new song every week for a month.
Jacob Brodovsky (he/him) is a singer-songwriter, guitar player, college radio host, and summer camp director from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. fronting folk rock band Kakagi, and backing up artists such as Sierra Noble, and Charlotte Cornfield, I Love You and I’m Sorry represents his first full-length effort released in September, 2022. Jacob is a champion for Winnipeg’s local music scene, and hosts “Let’s Play DJ” a weekly interview show for local musicians to talk about music they like on CKUW. When not writing songs, he runs a children’s summer camp with his wife in Lake of the Woods, Ontario and spoils his rescue dog, Mavis.
“There is nothing artificial or contrived about the music in any of the songs on I Love You and I’m Sorry. Every note which appears in every song on this album needs to be here. There is a power and a passion about the music which binds it together; it is beautiful and artful and is capable of the hearts of everyone who hears it.
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“Clear and Confident but never overly so. Deliberate and gracious
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“Will You Tell The Kids We Tried”
Produced by MOONRIIVR (James Robertson & Gavin Gardiner) & Jacob Brodovsky.
Additional Production by Jason Tait
All songs written by Jacob Brodovsky (SOCAN)
Jacob Brodovsky - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Wurlitzer, Mellotron
Jason Tait - Drums, Synth, Vibraphone, Percussion
John Baron - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
James Robertson - Guitar, Bass, Synth
Gavin Gardiner - Synth, Percussion
Keiran Placetka - Piano
Julie Penner - Violin
Dominque Adams - Vocals, Trumpet
Taylor Jackson - Vocals
Engineered by Gavin Gardiner
Additional Engineering by James Robertson, Jacob Brodovsky, Jason Tait, and John Baron
Mixed by Gavin Gardiner and James Robertson
Booking/Management/Complaints: jacob.brodovsky@gmail.com
“Jacob Brodovsky spins mundane observations with imaginative insights, using lyrical richness and splashes of humour to paint in pensive musings and quirky, comforting colour”