Routine

Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe find beauty in the rhythms and repetitions of domestic life for collaborative album, Routine.

Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn’t set out to make an album. Instead, as the title Routine suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive musical language to reflect the dreamlike meanderings and creative play of life's quiet moments. Routine blends pop orientated sounds, Avant-garde minimalism, folk and new age with the emotive depth of filmscore.

Their meeting was not entirely coincidental. Previously in bands such as Squares and Triangles, Jason Dungan has since recorded multiple albums under the moniker Blue Lake, including the lauded Sun Arcs, pursuing his passion for self-built percussion and multi-string instruments. Johan Carøe meanwhile is a composer whose film soundtrack work has seen him collaborate with Angelo Badalamenti, Arp, and Sofie Birch, at whose Andersabo residency (curated by Dungan) the pair first met, resulting in the highly praised album Repair Techniques written by Birch and Carøe.