Name: Jon Hopkins - Ritual LP
SKU: WIGLP523
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Artist: Jon Hopkins
Title: Ritual
Format: 2×12″ vinyl (1 LP Single sided etched)
Label: Domino
Cat nr: WIGLP523
Genre: Ambient/Electronica

Tracklist

A1		Part I – Altar
A2		Part II – Palace / Illusion
A3		Part III – Transcend / Lament
B1		Part IV – The Veil
B2		Part V – Evocation
B3		Part VI – Solar Goddess Return
C1		Part VII – Dissolution
C2		Part VIII – Nothing Is Lost

Artwork – Stephen McNally
Cello – Daisy Vatalaro
Guitar – Leo Abrahams
Layout – Matthew Cooper
Mastered By – Matt Colton
Mixed By – Cherif Hashizume, Christopher Clark, Jon Hopkins
Music Librarian [Synthesis & Sample Librarian], Sounds [Shepard Tones], Other [Portals] – Matt Hillier
Producer [Additional] – Christopher Clark
Recorded By [Vocals] – Jamison Baken
Sounds [Additional Arpeggiation] – Experiments In Silence
Synthesizer [Anlogues], Drums [Ritual Drums] – 7RAYS
Synthesizer [Modular Synthesis] – Cherif Hashizume
Violin, Viola – Emma Smith
Vocals – Vylana
Written-By, Producer – Jon Hopkins

Comes with a 12″x12″ insert with credits, and a download card.

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.