Hopkins, Jon - Music for Psychedelic Therapy CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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“Jon Hopkins is a classically trained composer and electronic musician from England whose solo and collaborative works, including deeply cerebral ambient techno recordings and immersive film scores, have received widespread acclaim as well as Grammy and Mercury Prize
nominations. Initially gaining exposure through his work with Brian
Eno, Coldplay, and King Creosote beginning in the mid-2000s, Hopkins gradually found his voice as a solo artist, blending intricately
crafted beats with serene, meditative textures. Immunity (2013) and
Singularity (2018), two intense, ambitious sets of spiritually minded techno and ambient tracks, were among the decade's most lauded electronic albums. He then embraced meditative music with 2021's Music for Psychedelic Therapy.”
“The album might appear new age on the surface, but it's more than just a set of blissful, mind-cleansing meditations. Three pieces named after the Tayos Caves in Ecuador are filled with rainfall, rolling wind, and the distant calls of bats or birds, combining calm reflection with a trembling sense of loneliness. "Deep in the Glowing Heart" is the album's stunning centerpiece, building up fluttering waves of sound into a vast, engrossing sea of emotion. From this intense peak, the music seems to come down and drift freely, letting distant nature sounds intersperse with the loose ends of stray thoughts, never focusing too hard on one feeling or idea. The album concludes with "Sit Around the Fire," a guided meditation based on the words of spiritual teacher Ram Dass, who advises the listener to "quiet the mind and open the heart."-AllMusic
- LabelDomino
- UPC887828045822