Jon Hopkins Announces New album, Shares Video For New Song 'RITUAL (evocation)'
RITUAL It will be released on August 30 via Domino
03 May 2024
Photo: Imogene Barron
British electronic musician Jon Hopkins has announced a new album. RITUALand shared his lead single, “RITUAL (evocation)” via a music video. RITUAL will be released on August 30 via Domino. Check out the new single below, followed by the tracklist and album art, as well as Hopkins' upcoming tour dates.
RITUAL 2021 follows Music for Psychedelic Therapy and is a single 41-minute piece spread over eight chapters.
Hopkins said of the album in a press release: “I have no idea what I'm doing when I compose. I don't know where it comes from, I don't know where it goes, nor does it seem to matter. I just know when it's over. So all I can really do is feel my way to the end, then try to retrospectively analyze what might be going on and try to figure out what its purpose is. What is clear is that this has the structure of a Ritual. I know what this Ritual is for me, but it will be something different for you. It feels important not to be prescriptive about what this Ritual actually is.
“It feels like a tool, maybe even a machine, for opening gates to your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried. Things held by tension in your body. As such, it doesn't feel like an “album“—more of a process you go through, something that works on you. At the same time, it feels like it's telling a story. Maybe it's the story of a process I'm going through, and one we all go through. Perhaps it is also the story of creation, destruction and transcendence. Perhaps it is the story of the archetypal hero's journey — the journey of forgetting and remembering.
“But in the end, all I have to say about it is told by the sound.”
Read our 2019 interview with Hopkins here.
RITUAL Track List:
1. part i – altar
2. part ii – palace / illusion
3. part iii – transcendence / lamentation
4. part IV – the veil
5. part v – invocation
6. part vi – solar goddess return
7. part vii – dissolution
8. part viii – nothing is lost
Jon Hopkins tour Dates:
Thu 25 Jul – Brighton, UK @ The Corn Exchange
Fri 26 July – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
Sat. July 27 – London, UK @ Junction 2 festival
Sat. August 16 – Bristol Beacons, UK @ Green Man festival
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