Jonah Lake history

It all started as a salute and tribute to all my fellow surfing and traveling friends. I was traveling a lot and at all the places I’ve been people really liked acoustic guitar music and reggae.

The artist name Jonah Lake I took while living in a cabin for 5 days next to a Swedish lake. Johan became Jonah and Lake sounded better than Ocean. Jonah Ocean sounded more like a house DJ which I am not.

I was writing on some songs with an island/reggae vibe to them and I had a few older songs I thought would mix well with the new ones. So I decided to record an acoustic album called Free Soul. The album was recorded with only two Röde microphones, one Apogee audiointerface and a Macbook pro during July 2013 in a 9 square meter livingroom in Gothenburg.

I wrote all songs, play all instruments, recorded, sang, produced and mastered everything on my own recordlabel Tangled up in blue records. The rest is history.

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SOMEONE USED MY SONGS FOR THEIR TRAVEL VIDEO COMPILATION

The song Mother earth is my most played song and it reached over one million streams in 2022 on Spotify

The end of Jonah Lake?

I have decided to let everything to do with me touring and releasing music as Jonah Lake go. Spotify has given me thousands of new fans but it has also killed my music and my record label. I’ve spend so much time, effort and money to make it work and his has killed my energy for the whole Jonah Lake project.

There will probably not be anymore Jonah Lake gigs in the future or albums. I have taken away all my songs from every streaming site. It’s still on Spotify even though I told Spotify in May to take it away.

Unless something really, really good happens then this is the end of Jonah Lake.

I got a few Jonah Lake songs that has never been recorded and it would be awesome one day to go in to a big studio and do a proper recording of my Jonah Lake songs with a band.

Here is a photo of one of my last official concert as Jonah Lake. Shot during The Hoddevik surffestival 2019. There was a few more in New Zealand after this.