Jon Hopkins
Album Review: AHO – Odyssey
As a big fan of Ólafur Arnolds, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Jon Hopkins, when you discover artists who make music in the same vain it’s very exciting – they’re so few and far between. This kind of Electronic/ Classical crossover (what could also be called Neo-Classical or if you’re being brazen BBC 6 Music Cool-Classical music) …
SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’
AS THIS most hellishly viral year’s eyelids droop and it prepares to exit stage left, the masterful Jon Hopkins has brought some beautiful piano catharsis and grace for our troubled brains as he drops a cover of Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus”. The track features on Thom’s most recent solo outing, Anima. It was recorded in one …
Track: Jon Hopkins – Singing Bowl (Ascension)
Jon Hopkins has shared a new release – Singing Bowl (Ascension) from a new series of ‘Meditations’ which is available to stream now. The piece3 is part of a specially curated 24-hour long playlist for Spotify, designed with deep meditation experiences in mind, the piece perfectly fits into Jon’s transcendent selections. He created the piece by …
Track: Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush, plus tour dates
Jon Hopkins has announced that his first album since 2013’s breakthrough record Immunity is out via Domino Records on May 4th. Called Singularity, Hopkins explores the dissonance between the urban (or at least a dystopian view of it) and the green forest dystopian urbanity and the green forest, rather than the nightlife/night out of Immunity. …
See: Beacons Festival 7-10 August 2014
I guess it’s time to start thinking which summer festival to attend and I’m really excited about the first acts announced by Beacons Festival. This independent festival is only in its third year (after the 2011 event was forced to close due to flooding) and it seems to be giving the bigger festivals a definate …