Blue Lake // The Animal LP

デンマーク・コペンハーゲンのギタリストBlue Lakeが、2025年10月にイギリス・ロンドンのTonal Unionからリリースした再発レコードです。

牧歌的なインストゥルメンタル・アンビエントフォーク10曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Circles 04:16
2. Cut Paper 04:26
3. Berlin 04:46
4. Flowers for David 04:22
5. Seeds 03:34
6. Yarrow 03:06
7. Strand 05:26
8. The Animal 03:52
9. Vertical Hold 06:50
10. To Read 04:52

Text excerpt by Tonal Union:

"Blue Lake reveals his most ambitious album yet, which finds its visionary creator Jason Dungan harnessing the collective alchemy of his band, with ten spirited tracks that resonate with a powerful directness, evoking an ecological connection to the wider world.

‘The Animal’ at its core vividly celebrates human collaboration and is deeply rooted in a sense of community and non-hierarchical connectivity. The group's creative alchemy transcends outwards and beyond the musicians performing together, to summon an inclusive, existential and ecological connection to the wider world and its inhabited spaces. The album contemplates the idea of the human as an animal as Dungan explains: “I’m quite fascinated in thinking about humans more as part of the animal environment and not as something that’s so separated into a “human” realm, or sitting on top of a hierarchical pyramid. So the Animal is also me, or us - that we are just living, existing, in the same way as a piece of moss or a sparrow or a cow.

Dungan welcomed an entirely open dialogue, a process that started from early band rehearsals, which saw his demos quickly evolve and amass weight from double bass, cello, clarinet, viola and drums to become refined and audibly decorated. Jason focused on capturing more wide ranging depth in the recording process, dissecting detailed nuances in instruments to convey the intricate, ever changing balance and dynamics that play out in the natural and urban world as the theme too circulates around the idea of The city as an animal or urban being. Speaking of his Copenhagen home town, with its industrial past but close proximity to areas of semi-wilderness, as well as the sea, he explains the overlapping scenario: “I don’t think it’s possible now to think about nature as a pure or isolated thing. Being around animals in this setting, I think about how they communicate with each other, forge relationships, and navigate the city, but all without language. It’s not an experience of nature which is bucolic and uncomplicated - it’s an experience of nature and the animal world which is bound up in human activity. [...]"

Artist : Blue Lake

Label : Tonal Union

cat no : TU014LP