Pre-order of RITUAL. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
releases August 30, 2024
$9.99USD or more
Record/Vinyl
- 2x Black Vinyl (Side D features artwork etching)
- Gatefold sleeve
- Insert
Includes digital pre-order of RITUAL.
The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
shipping out on or around August 30, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$32USDor more
Compact Disc (CD)
Includes digital pre-order of RITUAL.
The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
shipping out on or around August 30, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$14USDor more
1.
Jon Hopkins and Ishq - part i - altar
2.
Jon Hopkins and Vylana - part ii - palace / illusion
3.
Jon Hopkins and Vylana - part iii - transcend / lament
4.
Jon Hopkins, 7RAYS and Ishq - part iv - the veil
5.
Jon Hopkins, Ishq and Cherif Hashizume featuring 7RAYS & 7RAYS - part v - evocation
6.
Jon Hopkins, Vylana and 7RAYS featuring Ishq and Cherif Hashizume & Ishq & Cherif Hashizume - part vi - solar goddess return
7.
part vii - dissolution
8.
part viii - nothing is lost
about
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.
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