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Jason O

About Me

My name is Jason Olcese and I go by "Jason O" because no one can pronounce "Olcese" correctly... just try... see you just said it wrong : ) So let's get to it: I hear things in my head. All the time. Not in the crazy way though, just in the music running through my brain constantly kind of way. When I realized that a lot of the music I heard in my head was actually being created there I decided to stop playing the drums so much. Instead, I learned how to sing and play the guitar and piano with hopes that one day I would be able to share those things I hear in my head.
I guess there's a part of me that feels like I was destined to do what I'm doing with my life. But then there's another part of me that's not sure what destiny is or if it actually exists and that part thinks I do it because it makes me happy. So anyways, recently I moved to NYC (yea Brooklyn!) in an effort to share the music from my head with a larger number of people! But wait... I'm getting ahead of myself.
I grew up in West Clifford, PA which is near Scranton...as seen on the Office, ha. I was that kid who got picked on for wearing sweatpants all the time and doing well in school (and also because my mom taught at my school p.s. my parents are both music teachers... destiny anybody?). So I grew up and now I wear pajamas all the time instead of sweatpants and I live in NYC, but I still record my music in the garage at home with my dad.
When I started, my dad didn't know how to record, and well... I didn't know how to sing or play guitar, but we did it anyways! Over the past 6 years, we both learned a thing or two and I decided that instead of writing more of a biography, that I would let the music speak for itself. Below are links to my first five albums, and you can really see the improvement in quality, and also the motion in music ideas, as it progressed from project to project. Enjoy!
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Member Since: 07/09/2005
Band Website: http://www.jasonomusic.com
Band Members: Jason Olcese - vocals, guitar, whistling Nodd Morris - djembe, drums, backing vocals Lee Griffin - Bass!
Influences: Fat Freddy's Drop, Nodd Morris, Kevin Woodruff, Bodyclock, Jeff Buckley, Cake, Incubus, Jason Mraz, Notorious BIG, 311, A tribe called quest...and also: keller williams, incubus, sublime, ben folds, fiona apple, third eye blind, rage against the machine, damien rice, iron and wine, 311, jolie holland, dispatch, unwritten law, alien ant farm, postal service, ryan montbleau
Sounds Like:

iTunes anybody?

OR HERE TO GET A PHYSICAL COPY!!!

HERE'S MY FIRST ONE
(ALL ACOUSTIC)

Or try these places:
AMAZON , RHAPSODY , EMUSIC

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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

music and money

I was in the shower tonight thinking about my choice to be a musician.  People talk about paying dues... and I think (not in a bitter way, more hilarious) that I have definitely paid mine.  To support...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:37:00 GMT

I met Will Ferrell!

Actually Will Ferrell came to me in a dream.  We were preparing for battle against the small dark scary things that were running in the woods near a cafe where we were eating lunch.  Actuall...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:12:00 GMT

Sink or Swim

My new album, Sink or Swim, is finally finished.  It only took 9 months, but my baby is finally ready for the world : )  For now it is available at digstation.com/jasono and will soon be ava...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:10:00 GMT

In my bones

I got tired of waiting for my new album to be printed, so I recorded my favorite new song on my 4 track.  This song (in my bones) makes me feel really good.  I've listened to it for at least...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:27:00 GMT

Music Therapists

So last night I was filling in on drums for my dad's top 40's act that was named after my song "Cherry on Top" and around the beginning of the last set the night took a very unexpected turn.  An ...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:22:00 GMT

WVIA recordings! and album : )

I recorded 8 songs for the public radio show, "Homegrown Music"The weblink for the recordings I did for George Graham on WVIA is:  http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvia/ppr/wvia.m3uI'm pretty su...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:38:00 GMT

Studio, Brooklyn, and Summer gigs

My summer has consisted of three goings on: 1)  I moved out of my place in State College, PA (miss you psu) and started moving into a new apartment in Brooklyn, NY.  This is exciting for obv...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:20:00 GMT

Jewel and Hook?

You know that song "Foolish games" that every girls sings at one or another melodramatic point in their life?  So I'm on the way home with my sister and Joe and Nicole and I my sister tosses this...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:24:00 GMT

music video and vacation!

So I finished my first music video!  I'm really, really happy with how it turned out.  It was weird to see so much of myself at first but after hours and hours and way more hours of filming/...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 18:10:00 GMT

Keystone College is Awesome!

I played a gig tonight at Keystone College and I had such a great time.  First of all... I played in a place called the "Giant's Den" and that's just cool in and of itself.  Second... I have...
Posted by on Mon, 07 May 2007 22:37:00 GMT