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Small Craft on a Milk Sea’, Brian Eno’s debut album with Warp, is reissued for the first time since its release in 2010. Collaborating with guitarist Leo Abrahams and mercury nominated musician Jon Hopkins, the album remains Eno’s most successful since 1983’s “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks”.

This Record Store Day exclusive sees the original album across 2LPs and includes the complete live ‘Seven Seas Sessions’ as well as rare bonus material from the time. Available on Double 140g Black Bio Vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Emerald and Lime
A2. Complex Heaven
A3. Small Craft on a Milk Sea
A4. Flint March
A5. Horse
A6. 2 Forms of Anger
A7. Bone Jump
A8. Dust Shuffle
A9. Paleosonic

B1. Slow Ice, Old Moon
B2. Lesser Heaven
B3. Calcium Needles
B4. Emerald and Stone
B5. Written, Forgotten
B6. Late Anthropocene

C1. Square Chain
C2. Bimini Twist
C3. Invisible
C4. Abandoned Shops
C5. Loose Rein
C6. Surfacing

D1. Allen Loop (Seven Sea Sessions)
D2. Instant Nuclear Family (Extended Version / Seven Sea Sessions)
D3. Signal Success (Seven Sea Sessions)
D4. Written / Forgotten / Remembered (Seven Sea Sessions)
D5. Big Thief Trudge (Seven Sea Sessions)
D6. Abdominal Crisis (Seven Sea Sessions)

In 2023 Jon Hopkins alongside Icelandic film composer Biggi Hilmars scored the soundtrack for acclaimed documentary, Wilding. The documentary follows the story of farmers Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell who embarked on an environmental project which aimed to breathe new life into the failing 400-year-old Knepp Estate in the Southeast England. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrusted its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It was the beginning of a grand experiment that has become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe, and they’ve been able to promote new biodiversity, regenerating and transforming a previously over-farmed, degraded part of the land.

Hopkins and Hilmars have created a soundtrack which perfectly accompanies the Wilding documentary, it’s full of organic textures, strings, vocals and piano as they channel the pulse of the natural world into a living score. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A beautifully textured selection, perfectly capturing the bucolic atmospheres and organic flow of the beautiful film it was created for. Slowly swelling pads, shifting textures and flickering, nigh-imperceptible rhythms. Beautiful.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wilding Theme
2. Worms
3. Butterflies
4. New Land (Immunity)
5. Back To Farm
6. The Sale
7. Ground Transformation
8. Mouse
9. Echoes Of The Wild
10. Networks
11. Magic
12. The Dove
13. The Slow Awakening

By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant, it is a culmination of themes explored throughout his 22-year career, and acts as the kinetic counterpart to 2021’s Music For Psychedelic Therapy.

A single piece unfolding over eight chapters, RITUAL is personified by depth and contrast. Taking ceremony, spiritual liberation and the hero's journey as inspiration, it taps into an ancient and primal energy.

Featuring long-term collaborators Vylana, 7RAYS, Ishq, Clark, Emma Smith, Daisy Vatalaro and Cherif Hashizume, RITUAL came together within the second half of 2023, but initial seeds were sown in 2022, when Hopkins was commissioned to compose for the stroboscopic Dreamachine experience in London. A project that felt ceremonial from the outset, this shorter piece was the embryo of RITUAL, with Hopkins gaining inspiration from the feeling of intention that is inherent in the Dreamachine space.

RITUAL is both emotionally and sonically heavy, whilst retaining a warm, live feel, where the juxtaposition between softness and intensity forms the core of the whole. So take time, prepare and immerse in RITUAL for 41 minutes of uninterrupted listening: sonic divination of the most potent form.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Jon Hopkins once again shows his meticulous sound design credentials on Ritual, but where the last full-length was the beautiful but distinctly non-propulsive 'Music For Psychedelic Therapy', the new one is a spiritual and sonic successor to the brilliant duo of Immunity and Singularity. Swimming in atmosphere, gorgeously produced and beautifully danceable.

TRACK LISTING

1. Part I – Altar
2. Part Ii – Palace / Illusion
3. Part Iii – Transcend / Lament
4. Part Iv – The Veil
5. Part V - Evocation
6. Part Vi – Solar Goddess Return
7. Part Vii – Dissolution
8. Part Viii – Nothing Is Lost

Music for Psychedelic Therapy is Hopkins’ first full-length since sister albums, the GRAMMY-nominated Singularity (2018) and Immunity (2013). For this collection, Hopkins wanted to make something that faced the opposite direction, something egoless and introspective, made with total, raw honesty. “It felt like time for a reset, to wait for music to appear from a different place,” says Hopkins. That place ended up being Tayos Caves in Ecuador, where Hopkins went on a life-changing creative expedition in 2018.

“‘Sit Around The Fire’ exists from one of the deep synchronicities that ushered this thing (Music For Psychedelic Therapy) into being,” comments Hopkins. “I was contacted by East Forest, who had spent some time with Ram Dass in Hawaii before he passed. He was given access to several lesser-heard talks from the 70s, and asked to set them to music. He sent me some starting points, including the beautiful choral vocals he recorded which open the piece. I put my headphones on and with Ram Dass’ voice inside my head, I sat at the piano and improvised. What you hear is the first thing that came out - it just appeared in response to the words.”

Hopkins elaborates on Music For Psychedelic Therapy: “What grew from this experience is an album with no beats, not one drum sound, something that is closer to a classical symphony than a dance / electronica record. Something that is more like having an experience than listening to a piece of music. Maybe something far more emotionally honest than I had been comfortable making before - a merging of music, nature and my own desire to heal.  The freedom from traditional rhythmic structures unlocked so much - it felt like I was free to explore a new form of rhythm, one that you discover when you just allow things to flow without letting yourself get in the way. 

“Music For Psychedelic Therapy is not ambient, classical or drone but has elements of all three. For me it’s a place as much as it is a sound. It works for the sober mind, but takes on a new dimension entirely when brought into a psychedelic ceremony. In my own psychedelic explorations testing this music, I found a quote I had read would keep coming to mind. ‘Music is liquid architecture, architecture is frozen music.’ I love this idea of music as something you inhabit, something that works on you energetically. In fact, it was while in that state that the title appeared to me. Psychedelic-assisted therapies are moving into legality across the world, and yet it feels like no one is talking about the music; the music is as important as the medicine.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Jon Hopkins presents a beautiful suite showing the other side to his more electronic / experimental excursions from his superb last few studio LP's. Here we get a brittle, all-encompassing selection of beautiful lysergic pads and shimmering, twinkling ambience.

TRACK LISTING

1.Welcome
2. Tayos Caves, Ecuador I
3. Tayos Caves, Ecuador Ii
4. Tayos Caves, Ecuador Iii
5. Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves
6. Deep In The Glowing Heart
7. Ascending, Dawn Sky
8. Arriving
9. Sit Around The Fire (with Ram Dass, East Forest) 

Presented as the sister record to 2014’s “Asleep Versions”, “Piano Versions” is a collection of ambient piano cover versions. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston, are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it.

TRACK LISTING

Dawn Chorus
Heron
Modern Driveway
Wintergreen 

Originally released in 2009 Insides is Jon’s third solo album. It paved the way for both Immunity (his hypnotic breakthrough solo album) and Diamond Mine (his collaboration with King Creosote) which attracted Mercury nominations and for his recently released fifth solo artist album, Singularity. The epic Light Through The Veins from Insides, which bookends Coldplay’s Viva La Vida album, is always a crowd favourite and is played by Jon as one of the closing tracks at almost all of his venue and festival shows. Small Memory, also from Insides has been streamed almost 57 million times on Spotify alone where Jon has 355, 462 followers and nearly 2 million monthly listeners.

Cited by The New Yorker as “One of the most celebrated electronic musicians of his generation”, electronic artist, producer and composer Jon Hopkins has forged a reputation for music that marries the dance floor to the devotional, and for live performances that are visceral, generous and charged with a rapt, sensuous beauty. Jon has remixed artists as diverse as Flume, David Lynch, Moderat, Disclosure, Four Tet, Wild Beasts and Purity Ring. Other projects include collaborations with Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes and Bonobo, as well as productions for London Grammar and Coldplay. His film credits include his Ivor Novello nominated score for the indie sci-fi classic Monsters, The Lovely Bones (scored with Brian Eno and Leo Abrahams), How I Live Now, Uwantme2killhim? and Rob and Vanentyna in Scotland. He also scored the National Theatre Live production of Hamlet and his work has appeared in many films and adverts.

TRACK LISTING

The Wilder Sun
Vessel
Insides
Wire
Colour Eye
Light Through The Veins
The Low Places
Small Memory
A Drifting Up
Autumn Hill

'How I Live Now' is the big-screen adaptation of the award-winning young-adult novel by Meg Rosoff, directed by acclaimed Academy-Award winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day In September, Marley, The Last King of Scotland) and starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones, Hanna) as Daisy.

London based Jon Hopkins, a classically trained pianist who has collaborated with Coldplay and Brian Eno amongst others, received a Ivor Novello nomination for his score for the Sci-Fi classic, 'Monsters' and he also co-wrote with Brian the music for 'The Lovely Bones'. He also scored the Andrew Douglas / Bryan Singer feature film 'You Want Me to Kill Him'.

'How I Live Now' features the single 'Garden's Heart' by Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) & Jon Hopkins, a Jon Hopkins Remix of Daughter's 'Home' and Amanda Palmer 's 'Do It With A Rockstar'

STAFF COMMENTS

Philippa says: Includes his track with Bat For Lashes Natasha Khan, 'Garden's Heart', a remix of Daughter, Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra's 'Do It With A Rockstar' and lots of electronic film pieces.

TRACK LISTING

1. Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra - Do It With A Rockstar
2. The Field
3. The River
4. Rain And Ash
5. The Hawk
6. Distant Fire
7. Nightfall / Love Theme
8. Taken Away
9. Daughter - Home (Jon Hopkins Remix)
10. Escape
11. The Forest / Plane Wreck
12. Gatesfield
13. Hunted
14. Lost Map / The Hawk
15. How I Live Now
16. Natasha Khan & Jon Hopkins - Garden's Heart

Jon Hopkins releases ‘Immunity’, his fourth solo album, via Domino.

A powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focussed music Hopkins has ever made, ‘Immunity’ is about achieving euphoric states through music.

Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, the album peaks with ‘Collider’, a huge, apocalyptic, techno monster and dissolves with the quiet, heartbreakingly beautiful closer, ‘Immunity’, a track featuring vocals from King Creosote, which could sit comfortably alongside the gems of their
Mercury-nominated collaboration, ‘Diamond Mine’.

Jon Hopkins is also an expert producer, Ivor Novello-nominated composer of film scores, long-term collaborator of Brian Eno and Coldplay, and remixer of artists as diverse as David Lynch, Four Tet, Wild Beasts, Nosaj Thing, and Purity Ring.

TRACK LISTING

1. We Disappear
2. Open Eye Signal
3. Breathe This Air
4. Collider
5. Abandon Window
6. Form By Firelight
7. Sun Harmonics
8. Immunity