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“I’ve tried all my life, 
now it’s time, 
my moment sinks to the well. 
Grant me your border.”


Thomas Jonsson continues his indie/folk journey with his third LP as his alias Thomas Denver Jonsson;
 "The Lake Acts Like an Ocean". It was released in Sweden last year but are now coming out in Europe. 
The album has been covered in magazines such as The Sun, The Times, Independent, Uncut and The Word. 
The Times mentioned Thomas as one out of six acts that is important for the Swedish pop scene (together 
with among others Robyn, The Hives and The Cardigans).

He has previously released the two well-received albums "Hope to Her" (2003) and "Barely Touching It" 
(2005) featuring collaborations with Rosie Thomas, Damien Jurado, Nina Kinert and Ned Oldham. Thomas 
is also active in a number of projects and collaboration projects such as A Perfect Friend (experimental 
folk - debut album out now), Going Places (7"-label") and Deer Theatre.

After a writing and recording process well over two years long, the new album "The Lake Acts Like An Ocean" 
is finally released by Kite Recordings. This cd - sensitively embraced by the American artist Hollis Brown 
Thornton's sun touched cover art – combines the Americana vein with a high dose of Swedish temperament.  
The new album is his most original and complex album to date  spanning from solo instrumentals (Sacha Distel, 
The Tapdancers’ Union) and band oriented indie rock (“What I Dream”, “Saved by The Bell”) to dark folk 
tunes (“The Border”, “Like Friends Falling in Love”, “Possession”) , quiet hymns (“Love Campaign”, 
“Only For Beginners”) and soulful Americana (“One of My Blessings”, “After The Earthquake)”.  The producer 
Carl Edlom has put rich arrangements to Thomas' close songs and words and there are duets with Jennie 
Stearns, Ellinor Blixt (Bobby Baby / It’s a Musical) 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 has made 300 shows and has toured in 15 countries. 
Amongst them at SXSW (Austin,US), Barfly (London, UK),  Paradiso (Amsterdam, NL), Take Root Festival 
(Assen, NL), Eurosonic Festival (Groningen, NL), HWCH Festival (Dublin, IE) Södra Teatern (Stockholm, SE), 
Debaser (Stockholm, SE),  Mejeriet (Lund, SE), Arvika Festival (Arvika, SE), Storsjöyran (Östersund,  SE), 
Sintetika (Florence, IT), Arena (Vienna, AT), KULT (Varazdin, HR) and Riga New Theatre (Riga, LV). 

The past and ongoing touring and recording activities has build him a solid reputation to rely on, making 
the third album the fairest shot he has ever got to reach out to a wider audience. 

 


http://www.thomasdenver.com
www.myspace.com/thomasdenverjonsson 




Releases:
2008 - A Perfect Friend - Graduation Day - Demos & Outtakes (selfreleased) cdr
2007 - Thomas Denver Jonsson - The Lake Acts Like an Ocean (Kite 2000) cd  
2007 - A Perfect Friend - s/t (Stilll 009) cd
2005 - Thomas Denver Jonsson - Barely touching it (Kite 1080) cd
2004 - Thomas Denver Jonsson - First in line EP  (Kite 1050) cdep
2003 - Thomas Denver Jonsson - Hope to her (Kite 1040) cd
2003 - Topeka Twins - I never heard her sing  (Kite 1020) 7"  w/ Bjorn Kleinhenz
2003 - Thomas Denver Jonsson - Then I kissed her softly  (Kite 1010)  7"







A PERFECT FRIEND: A Perfect Friend is currently releasing their selftitled debut album on 
Belgian label STILLL this summer in Europe/US/Japan/China through June and July. The duo consists of 
Thomas and experimental musician C-J Larsgarden. Their homespun mix of electronica, indie, post-rock 
and folk is a secret ready to be revealed. Sweet pop melodies, purring cats, quacking ducks, 
glockenspiel and finger picked guitar are streaming through warm layers of organic and electronic 
sounds. The debut album was recorded summer 2006 and Thomas and C-J has recorded big parts of a 
follow-up album.

www.myspace.com/aperfectfriend
www.aperfectfriend.com





GOING PLACES 7”: Thomas has also launced the vinyl label GP together with Emma Månsson. 
Every once in a while they will release split-EPs with some of the best new artists the 
world has to offer. First release are a meeting between American singer/songwriter Daniel 
Smith and Swedish pop/electronica/folk/indie-queen Bobby Baby. Get your own copy now. 
A new release is scheduled for the autumn.

www.goingplacesrecords.com
www.myspace.com/goingplaces7quot





CONTACT:
Info@thomasdenver.com
www.thomasdenver.com
www.myspace.com/thomasdenverjonsson
+46 (0) 739 24 97 46

A Perfect Friend
www.aperfectfriend.com

Going Places 7"
www.goingplacesrecords.com


1999 - 2008   Thomas Denver Jonsson