Thomas Denver Jonsson
The Lake Acts Like an Ocean (2007)
KCD2000 / KITE RECORDINGS
released September 19, 2007 in Sweden
released March 10, 2008 in UK, Benelux and Norway
April 2008 - France, June 2008 - Japan
REVIEWS
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01. The Border [MP3]
02. My Wardrobe
03. What I Dream
04. Only For Beginners [MP3]
05. Saved By The Bell
06. Like Friends Falling In Love
07. One Of My Blessings [MP3]
08. Possession
09. You Were The Holiday [MP3]
10. The Tapdancers' Union
11. After The Earthquake
12. Sacha Distel
13. She Runs In Slow Motion
14. Love Campaign
Thomas Denver Jonsson's third solo album continues his indie/folk journey combining the Americana vein
with a high dose of Swedish temperament. He has previously released the two well-received albums
featuring collaborations with Rosie Thomas, Damien Jurado, Nina Kinert and Ned Oldham. The new album
is his most original and complex material to date spanning solo guitar instrumentals and band oriented
indie rock to dark folk tunes, quiet hymns and soulful Americana. The producer Carl Edlom has put rich
arrangements to Thomas's close songs and words and there are duets with Jennie Stearns, Ellinor Blixt
(of Bobby Baby) and Elina Johansson (Dear Euphoria). With this new string of songs Thomas puts himself
closer to contemporary folk artists such as South San Gabriel, My Morning Jacket, M. Ward, Bright Eyes
and Cat Power rather than the classical songsmiths to whom he's previously been compared.
Thomas Jonsson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Carl Edlom - vocals, electric guitar, piano, organ, production
Fredrik Wilde - electric guitar, pedal steel
Tomas Lindberg - bass guitar
Henric Strömberg - vocals, drums, percussion
Andreas De Frumerie - viola
Ellinor Blixt - vocals ("Saved By The Bell")
Elina Johansson - vocals ("Possession" and "You Were The Holiday")
Jennie Stearns - vocals ("Love Campaign")
Martin Bärjed - piano ("Only for Beginners")
Andreas Nyberg - organ ("After The Earthquake")
Anders Jonsson - Tuba ("She runs in Slow Motion" and "Love Campaign")
Ola Eliasson - Flute ("She runs in Slow Motion")
The Lake Acts Like An Ocean was recorded 2006-07 in Karlstad, Sweden at Ready Steady Go! Studios.
Jennie's vocals engineered by Alex Perialis @ Pyramid Sound in ithaca, N.Y. All songs written by
Thomas Jonsson. Mixed, Engineered and Produced by Carl Edlom. Mastered by Henrik Jonsson at Masters of
Audio. Art Work by Hollis Brown Thornton
V/A
Introducing Townes Van Zandt
Via The Great Unknown (2009)
For The Sake of The Song
Released October 26th 2009
(10£ incl postage) - CLICK TO REACH THE LABEL'S WEBSHOP
Critically acclaimed Townes Van Zandt tribute album, featuring Thomas Denver Jonsson with Lisa
Bodland-Fielding (stream the song on the music player above, track#2), J. Tillman
(Fleet Foxes), Jad Fair, Anders Parker, Great Lake Swimmers, Be Good Tanyas and more. . .
http://www.myspace.com/thetownesvanzandtproject
1 Lessons In Time (AU) – At My Window
2 Thomas Denver Jonsson (SWE) – To Live Is To Fly
3 Loophole & Ciaran Kirby (IRL) – Lungs
4 Great Lake Swimmers (CAN) – Our Mother The Mountain
5 Fort King & My Hawaii (US) – Loretta
6 Christina Kulukundis (UK/US) – If I Needed You
7 J. Tillman (US) – My Proud Mountains
8 Gustav Haggren (SWE) – Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel
9 Kevin Tihista (US) – Still Looking For You
10 Kate Maki (CAN) – I’ll Be Here In The Morning
11 Anders Parker (US) – No Place To Fall
12 Telafonica (AU) – St. John The Gambler
13 Nick Jones (US) – Don’t Take It To Bad
14 The Wheel (US) – She Came And She Touched Me
15 Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time (UK) – Pancho And Lefty
16 Pacific Ocean Fire (UK) – You Are Not Needed Now
17 Chris Mills (US) – Tecumseh Valley
18 The Be Good Tanyas (CAN) – Waiting Around To Die
19 Jad Fair (US) – Turnstyled, Junkpiled
A Perfect Friend
Timber And Modern Ways (2009)
Knoppar
Second full-length album of side project A Perfect Friend (Thomas Denver
Jonsson & C-J Larsgården). Released december 2009 on Knoppar on cd,
digital and on Spotify.
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01. Inside The Walls
02. Onion
03. The Artificial Lung
04. Sail The Soil (feat. Emma Sarius)
05. Branch Fever
06. Pontoon
07. Maple
08. Timber and Modern Ways
09. Post Rock
10. Matro
C-J Larsgården and Thomas Jonsson have indeed finetuned their expression during the
last years and found a dense balance between the catchy and the experimental, between
noise and ambience. Compared to their 2007 debut, TIMBER AND MODERN WAYS though noticable
progress and increased density, still features APF's patented trademarks of long notes,
minimalistic guitar and pianos, their silent pop nerve, the field recordings,
Larsgården's sonic landscapes and Jonsson's vocals. APF mixes the neu-folk feeling of
stuff like Akron/Family, Bon Iver and early Cat Power with the one of experimental and
ambient acts such as Fennesz, Mogwai and Panda Bear.
C-J Larsgården - laptop, syntheseizer, guitars, melodica, beats and production, vocals
Thomas Denver Jonsson - silvertone organ, guitars, piano, vocals
Emma Sarius guest appears on vocals on "Sail the Soil"
A PERFECT FRIEND
A PERFECT FRIEND (2007)
STILL09 / STILLL
Experimental indie/folk/postrock-duo
of Thomas Jonsson and C-J Larsgarden
... Sweet pop melodies, purring cats
and quacking ducks are streaming through
warm layers of organs, electronics and...
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THOMAS DENVER JONSSON
BARELY TOUCHING IT (2005)
KCD 1080 / KITE RECORDINGS
feat. Nina Kinert & Ned Oldham
The second Thomas Denver Jonsson
album deepened the expression from
the debut. On this cd, the airy folkpop
turned into a more electric and darker
expression, yet still with a...
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THOMAS DENVER JONSSON
FIRST IN LINE EP (2004)
KEP 1050 / KITE RECORDINGS
feat. Rosie Thomas & Damien Jurado
Standing in the doorway between the
two albums, this acousic spinned EP
released July 12th 2004 features...
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THOMAS DENVER JONSSON
HOPE TO HER (2003)
KCD 1040 / KITE RECORDINGS
Thomas' debut album "Hope to her" is a
lofi-country moment filled up with the lovable
bittersweet spirit of love and loss, clearly
influenced by alt.country and 70's singer/songwriters...
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Catalog: [see all covers/info]
2009 A Perfect Friend - Timber And Modern Ways (Album CD/Digital) (Knoppar)
2009 The Topeka Twins - Swim, Swam, Swan (3"CD/Download) (Tomt Recordings)
2007 Thomas Denver Jonsson - The Lake Acts Like an Ocean (Album/CD) (Kite Recordings)
2007 A Perfect Friend - A Perfect Friend (Album/CD) (Stilll)
2005 Thomas Denver Jonsson - Barely Touching It (Album/cd) (Kite Recordings)
2004 Thomas Denver Jonsson - First in Line EP (EP/CD) (Kite Recordings)
2003 Thomas Denver Jonsson - Hope to Her (album/cd) (Kite Recordings)
2003 The Topeka Twins I Never Heard Her Sing (minialbum/7") (Kite Recordings / Johnny bråttom Records)
2003 Thomas Denver Jonsson - Then I Kissed Her Softly (EP/7") (Kite Recordings) (+ ltd ed.)
Exclusive appearances:
2009 Introducing Townes Van Zandt via The Great Unknown (UK) (forthesakeofthesong) (feat cover version of To Live is To Fly)
2009 What's Kicking IV (UK) (stovepony) (feat. unreleased song "Willing Night Plants")
2008 Quietly Happy & Deep Inside - covers and remixes (IT's a trap/MP3) (featuring Bjorn Kleinhenz-cover "Light of Love")
2008 Series Two Records Vol 10-14 (US) (Series Two Records) (feat. unreleased song "Archipelago" by A Perfect Friend)
2006 The World Turns All Around Him - a tribute to Gene Clark (Groover Recordings) (feat. Byrds-cover "Set you free this time")
2006 Living Room (DVD) (UR) (tv-show feat. a live performance of "Silver Boy")
2005 Bringing American Roots Music Back Home (DVD) (Music Matters) (feat. "First in Line" & "Good Night" live)
guest appearances:
2010 - Mine to Keep - s/t (SE) - (vocals on "Ice Fern")
2009 - Old Lost John - Faceless (Tight Grain/SE) (vocals on "She looked down")
2009 - Helena Arlock - Dirty Old Hound (RedOlive/SE) (vocals on "Misery"; handclaps on "Pink Bubbles")
2009 - Annis - If it's a dead fish, it's a deadfish (Lonely Road) (SE) (vocals on "A thousant lies")
2008 - Kristoffer Hedberg - Ett helt vanligt ögonblick (Wilhed) (SE) (accordion on "I havent felt the heat)
2008 - Gustav & The Seasick Sailors - Brilliant Hands (Marilyn) (SE) (vocals on "sing it out") (+ltd ed 2009)
2004 ME - The Wagon Fair (Volkloren) (NL) (TDJ - Harmonica , Fredrik Wilde - Pedal Steel)
compilations:
2008 Word: Now Hear This #63 (UK) (cd with word magazine feat. You Were the Holiday)
2007 MIDEM 2007 - Export Music Sweden Sampler (EXMS) (S) (feat. What I Dream from The Lake Acts Like An Ocean)
2005 Inradio: 3.3 Now or never or later (Inradio) (US) (feat. Dreams at the film club from Barely touching it)
2004 The Pet Series IV (Sally Forth) (NL) (feat. First in line (live) from First in line ep)
2004 Independent Sweden (Fork Series) (US) (feat. 24 seven from "Hope to her")
2004 Rundgång (Popkonst) (feat. 24 seven from "Hope to her")
2003 Sonically Speaking #13 (Sonic) (feat. First in line from "Hope to her")
2003 Svensk populärmusik vol.2 (Johnny Bråttom Records) (feat. "Hunting song" from The Topeka Twin's mini album)
2003 My secret garden (No Disco) (feat. Then I kissed her softly from Then I kissed her softly EP + Topeka Twin's "Hunting song")
2002 Come In (Villa Recordings) (feat. "Shades of Green" from daybreak EP)
2002 Utökad Familj vol.1 (Alltid Hela Tiden) (feat. an unreleased version of "Shades of Green" with September Sunrise)
2002 Svensk Populärmusik vol.1 (Johnny Bråttom Records) (feat. "Jeanna" from at the empty bench)
soundtracks
2010 Framtidens Melodi (S) (Movie by Jonas Bergergård and Jonas Holmström, feat. "Possession")
2009 Håll om mig (S) (Short Movie. Appears in the soundtrack)
2008 Heja Degerfors (S) (Short Movie. Soundtrack features: A Day From A Year and Black & Blue)
2006 Innan Skottet (Short Movie: Directed by: Sara Broos) (feat. exclusive song "And The Crowd Goes Wild")
self-released:
2002 Denver Icons (Ep-compilation)
2002 At the empty bench
2001 Songwriter in a coma EP (white trash part three)
2001 Daybreak EP - morning bleeds in time
2001 White trash / Ricki Lak e ep
1999-2008 Thomas Denver Jonsson
