Stikling, by Blue Lake

Stikling

by Blue Lake

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12" vinyl version of Stikling, 300 copies.

Artwork by Jason Dungan.

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about

This record began in summer 2020, when I was staying at Andersabo, Sweden, where I run an artists' residency. I had access to a nearby church, and would set drones going on the organ while playing clarinet and piano. I started working with the combination of these long, sustained tones, combined with acoustic instruments, where the sound's duration was only as long as a breath or the pluck of a string.

A lot of the last Blue Lake LP was made using a series of zithers that I built myself. I have always been interested in layering sounds, and had in the past made music by recording several guitar parts and putting them together. The zithers allowed me to explore this kind of layered playing live, as both hands can be used simultaneously to create overlapping patterns. In the summer that I started recording Stikling, I built a much larger 48-string zither that expanded a lot of these possibilities and ended up featuring in a lot of the new music.

Each piece on Stikling began with some kind of drone - an organ tone or a frozen note on the cello. A particular phrase on piano or a series of clarinet chords would start to determine a structure, and the music grew over time, with parts being added, taken away, re-written, re-recorded.

The word “stikling” in Danish means a cutting taken from a plant that is then set in new soil. During the past two years, I’ve been working with gardening - planting, collecting seeds, and making cuttings. These processes often involve a mix of creation and destruction – growth goes hand in hand with removing old material and cutting things down. This kind of circularity fed into the music as it was being developed for the LP. After starting on the church organ in summer 2020, I finished by recording on the little pump organ at Andersabo in summer 2021.

credits

released April 4, 2022

Jason Dungan: zithers, piano, clarinet, bamboo sax, acoustic guitar, percussion, organ.

Recorded at Polychrome / Andersabo / Unnaryds Kyrka

Mixed by Jason Dungan
Mastered by Aske Zidore

Released by Polychrome (PLY007)

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Blue Lake Copenhagen, Denmark

Blue Lake is solo music and collaborations by
Jason Dungan, played on string, wind, and percussion instruments.

shows

Apr 27

Casa Montjuïc

Barcelona, Spain
May 4

Zionskirche

Berlin, Germany

discography

Sun Arcs (Remixes)

Feb 2024
Sun Arcs

Jun 2023
Stikling

Apr 2022
Reading, Sleeping

Jan 2021
Moving

Aug 2020
The Parrot

Jan 2019

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