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Biography
With Jet Packs is a musical project based in Chicago, with a culmination of inspiration in dreaminess, effective stage lighting and an unmatched emotional enrapture. A six person band with a violinist and synthesizer obsessionist included.
The Theme: making you feel like you’re floating somewhere special with other like minded astronauts… whether it’s passing through the calming still constellations or into the fury of an asteroid shower.
Joseph Watychowicz was luckily granted 24/7 access to a recording studio from a friend, located in the Crystal Lake, IL “Dole Mansion.” He spent seven more years there, later creating his own recording studio and using all of his experience gained to make over two albums of music.
A year later by some luck, grace and absolute stubbornness, With Jet Packs finally became a fully fledged live band with six members total:
Joseph Watychowicz, Dave Ratzek, Samantha Ing, Bryce Halliday, Michael O’Grady and Sam Barr.
UPCOMING AND PAST EVENTS
UPCOMING AND PAST EVENTS
Music:
A pleasurable exploration of space travel through the audible indie genre form. Each song relates a familiar moment and time in life with the night sky, hoping to find closure in such an expansive but beautiful environment. The first album to be made in over three years of the making!
All the Best, From Here and to the Next
A melancholic fantasy of life defining moments, drifting through literal dreams, a potential life review and a time/place so promising that for one specific month of a year, everything was perfect.
The most recent album to come out after five years of chaotic residence, all eight tracks were made through five different recording environments. (One of them including a Chicago apartment in Buena Park where a person shot someone and barricaded themselves a floor above Joseph Watychowicz. He had to awkwardly make his way through the SWAT team to go to work that day)
Videos:
An Astronomical Mess album release promo sampler.