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Jakub Racek is an audio engineer, musician, and filmmaker located in Ottawa, Ontario. He is an instructor at The Audio Recording Academy (TARA) and is head audio engineer at Raven Street Studios. He has worked on various music, film, and post-production projects with local and international clients including Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, Dakota Fanning, Jully Black, Billy Lorde, Carlos PenaVega, Kapil Talkwalkar, and many others. His film and TV credits include The Watchers, Orphan Black Echoes, Obsessed to Death, Crazy Like a Lynx, Pow Wow Chow, My Dreams of You, and audiobook recordings for major book publishers such as Penguin/Random House, including Murray Sinclair’s Who We Are and Thomas D’Aquino’s Private Power, Public Purpose.

Jakub’s debut short film Mlian, which he wrote, directed, filmed, and edited, was a finalist at the Tatras International Film Festival, and won Best Actor at the Heart of Europe International Film Festival and Best Original Music at the Eastern Europe Film Festival. For more details, click here.

With qualified training and a background in the arts, Jakub blends creativity with technical expertise to produce projects that are both original and professional. He also releases original music under the name Pocket Writer.

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Pocket Writer - Eyes to the Moon

New Album Out Now

Eyes to the Moon is an analog concept album by Jakub Raček aka Pocket Writer. Songs 1-5 were recorded and mixed by Raček on a vintage Tascam 424 cassette recorder at his Wallpaper News home studio. Song 6 was recorded on 2" analog tape at Little Bullhorn Studios in Ottawa, Ontario by Jarrett Bartlett and mixed by Raček and Bartlett on the studio's API 1608 console. The album uses lyrics centred on cosmic imagery to explore themes of time, creativity, and our place in the universe.

Eyes to the Moon - Behind the Scenes