Jon Hopkins, artista londrino, começou a tocar piano aos 5 anos e aos 12 foi estudar piano no London Royal College of Music. Já trabalhou com artistas como Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Chris Coco, Coldplay (co-produziu algumas músicas do seu último álbum), Imogen Heap entre outros, e lançou três álbuns até ao momento, Opalescent (2001); Contact note (2004) e Insides (2009). No seu trabalho explora uma electrónica melódica e glitch, com instrumentais doces, onde não há só piano mas também sintetizadores chillout e batidas downtempo à mistura. Paisagens sonoras ambiente para relaxar. Sobre o último LP fica daqui, o seguinte:"For someone who has recently supported Coldplay on tour, co-produced a couple of their tracks and has co-written the soundtrack to the forthcoming Peter Jackson film, The Lovely Bones, you wouldn't think that Jon Hopkins would have any time or energy left to release his own solo album.
Fortunately, he did. And the composer, pianist and self-taught studio wizard provides another impressive album packed full of lose-yourself electronica mixed with beautifully haunting piano, synths and a pulsing bass. Insides, his third album offering, rollercoasters from track to track going through the gloomy, the upbeat and somewhere indescribable in-between with almost every song seamlessly interacting with the next.
Commit yourself to seeing the whole album through in one go and you'll find the hypnotic rhythms will take you deep into Jon's delicately created world. In 'Vessel' you just begin to understand the album's title as the distant-thunder sound of pulsating waves merges into the dawn-breaking piano that transports the music deep into your consciousness before it's suddenly regurgitated back up by some intense bass and awakening energetic synths."
Jon Hopkins - Light through the veins
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