Jon Hopkins annoncerer nyt album - Music For Psychedelic Therapy udkommer d. 12. november

Jon Hopkins annoncerer i dag albummet Music For Psychedelic Therapy som udkommer d. 12. november på Domino / Playground Music. 
 
Den første single fra albummet er ’Sit Around The Fire’ som er albummets afslutningsnummer. Det er lavet i samarbejde med producer East Forest og den legendariske guru Ram Dass, hvis ikoniske bog Be Here Now kan fejre 50-års jubilæum i år.

Om singlen fortæller Hopkins, “’Sit Around The Fire’ exists from one of the deep synchronicities that ushered this thing (Music For Psychedelic Therapy) into being. 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 contacted me, and sent me some starting points, including the beautiful choral vocals he recorded that 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 word.”
 
Hopkins udgav sit sidste album Singularity i 2018 og senest EP’en Piano Versions tilbage i april i år. Men det kommende album udstikker en ny rejse for Hopkins, både mentalt, filosofisk og lydmæssigt - og som han siger:

“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 it 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. but the music is as important as the medicine”.

Music For Psychedelic Therapy trackliste:
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)
 

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