Blue Lake is the musical project of American born, Copenhagen based multidisciplinary
artist and musician Jason Dungan, who signed to the Tonal Union imprint for the release of
his latest longform album ‘Sun Arcs’ (2023). Weaving between self-built zithers, drones,
clarinets, slide guitars and drum machines, ‘Sun Arcs’ is a beautifully unique sound offering
with inventive, free spirited and DIY sensibility.
Pitchfork named it Best New Music and album, a much coveted accolade from writer
Sam Sodomsky who praised the recordings on ‘Sun Arcs’ for being intimate, magical and
compelling. It follows ‘Stikling’ (2022), earning a nomination for ‘Album of the Year’ in the
Jazz category at the Danish Music Awards plus warm praise from musicians and DJs alike
including Jack Rollo (Time is Away/NTS) and Carla dal Forno.
A self-taught player, Dungan began freely experimenting with self-built multi-string
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Blue Lake is the musical project of American born, Copenhagen based multidisciplinary
artist and musician Jason Dungan, who signed to the Tonal Union imprint for the release of
his latest longform album ‘Sun Arcs’ (2023). Weaving between self-built zithers, drones,
clarinets, slide guitars and drum machines, ‘Sun Arcs’ is a beautifully unique sound offering
with inventive, free spirited and DIY sensibility.
Pitchfork named it Best New Music and album, a much coveted accolade from writer
Sam Sodomsky who praised the recordings on ‘Sun Arcs’ for being intimate, magical and
compelling. It follows ‘Stikling’ (2022), earning a nomination for ‘Album of the Year’ in the
Jazz category at the Danish Music Awards plus warm praise from musicians and DJs alike
including Jack Rollo (Time is Away/NTS) and Carla dal Forno.
A self-taught player, Dungan began freely experimenting with self-built multi-string
instruments, preferring to build his own hybrid 48-string zither and working in the realms of
left-field ambient music, off kilter folk and improvised acoustic minimalism. The starting
point of ‘Sun Arcs’ saw Jason travel for a week alone to Andersabo, a cabin set in the
idyllic Swedish woods just outside of Unnaryd, known also as the music project, festival
and residency space which has been run by Dungan since 2016, hosting artists like Sofie
Birch, Johan Carøe and Ellen Arkbro. The Blue Lake project has its origins rooted first in
London where Dungan lived immersed in the local art and music scene. He then relocated
to Copenhagen where he currently lives on an island (unbeknown to most) named Amager
in the heart of the Danish capital where he is a curator of the independent music and art
project space Polychrome and a key contributor to the brewing contemporary live scene....

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