RITUAL is a end result of themes explored all through Jon Hopkins’ 22-year profession, and acts because the kinetic counterpart to 2021’s Music For Psychedelic Remedy.
Speaking about RITUAL, Hopkins explains: “I don’t know what I am doing after I’m composing. I don’t know the place it’s coming from, and I do not know the place it is going, nor does it appear to matter. I simply know when it’s completed.So all I can actually do is really feel my strategy to the tip, then try to retrospectively analyse what may be occurring, and try to work out what its goal is. What is evident is that this one has the construction of a Ritual. I do know what that Ritual is for me, however it is going to be one thing completely different for you. It feels necessary to not be prescriptive about what this Ritual truly is.
“It seems like a device, possibly even a machine, for opening portals inside your interior world, for unlocking issues which can be hidden and buried. Issues which can be held in place by the stress in your physique,” he continues. “It doesn’t really feel like “an album” due to this fact – extra a course of to undergo, one thing that works on you. On the identical time, it feels prefer it tells a narrative. Possibly it is the story of a course of I’m going by, and one which we’re all going by. Possibly it’s additionally the story of creation, destruction and transcendence. Possibly it’s the story of the archetypal hero’s journey – the journey of forgetting and remembering.”
That includes long-term collaborators Vylana, 7RAYS, Ishq, Clark, Emma Smith, Daisy Vatalaro and Cherif Hashizume, RITUAL got here collectively inside the second half of 2023, however preliminary seeds have been sown in 2022, when Hopkins was commissioned to compose for the Dreamachine* immersive expertise in London created by Collective Act, in collaboration with a staff of artists, scientists and philosophers.
RITUAL might be premiered in spatial audio at London’s ICA on Sunday 12 Might giving followers an early alternative to interact with this particular album, and an additional listening occasion will happen at Glastonbury Pageant on their Ambient stage.
Tracklist:
- half i – altar
- half ii – palace / phantasm
- half iii – transcend / lament
- half iv – the veil
- half v – evocation
- half vi – photo voltaic goddess return
- half vii – dissolution
- half viii – nothing is misplaced
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