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TN:86 Jon Hopkins

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How Did You Get Your Crystal Bowl Out of the Cave?

Eileen Hall encouraged you to visit the cave in Ecuador. She thought it could inspire you to write music and response as a way of bringing this experience to the wider world. You started by getting out Mendels field recordings and just putting them on my headphones and then getting out that recording of the crystal bowl through the speaker. With the backdrop of that single note that crystal bowl I'd made a patch like a chain of plug-ins unable to know I had my piano going into that. That's what you hear at the start of track two. The whole album is one piece but it's in three chapters. So with this I started to embrace it and give them all names even though I

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