Blue Lake is decidedly my shit. Finger-picked guitar, far-out ambient meditations, and even jazz! Color me stoked when the Copenhagen-based, Texas-born Jason Dungan announced a new release from the project, Weft, which will arrive on January 17. “Oceans,” the second track to be teased from the project, is all about the gee-tar, built around a number of finger-picked patterns that are beautifully accented by a delightful double bass part. The track is a stunning interlude within the course of the mini-album, but on its own, it’s a delightful odyssey down a rarely visited path—the sort of treat you discover when you deviate from your daily walk (as I know each of us embarks on, every day, without fail).
The new project takes its name from the weaving practice his partner Maria Zahle uses in her visual art, with her work “Torso” used for the mini-LP’s cover. “There’s a not-so-subtle visual relation between the masses of strings on the instrument and the masses of thread on a loom,” Dungan shared upon announcing Weft. “Weaving allows you to have an intimate relationship between the many individual parts of a piece, as well as the finished whole, and I think for me that watching [Maria] process on the loom for many years has deeply impacted the ways in which I think about music.”
Stream “Oceans” below and pre-order Weft here.
