Tape Notes TN:86 Jon Hopkins
Cave Residency Sparked The Album
- Jon Hopkins spent four days living in a huge Amazon cave and recorded its natural sounds with a field recordist.
- He used a crystal bowl in the cave to create drones that became the foundation for the album.
One Journey Split Into Chapters
- The Ecuador suite is essentially one long piece broken into three chapters for release.
- Jon treated the whole excursion as a single organism and later divided it into tracks for listening convenience.
Lightning Idea On A Walk
- A sudden walking-in-Hackney idea produced the opening rising-note motif for "Welcome."
- He printed many processed versions of the same F note from a Moog One to build the trails you hear.
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In this episode, John is joined by Jon Hopkins at Iguana Studios to talk about how he wrote, recorded and produced his latest album ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’.
Engaging us in the album’s immersive journey, Jon talks us through the spaces and natural processing that shaped the sound of the record, from the depths of an Ecuadorian Cave to the vintage synths recorded in the woods.
Unearthing the individual parts and gradual sonic changes, we hear Jon's outlook on following intuition, responding to ‘bolt of lightning’ ideas and insane bursts of creativity, all tied together with thoughts on consciousness and the links between sound and mind.
Listen to find out how a cheap plugin fault ended up creating the perfect sound, why it is so important to create interest in different frequency groups, and what moment was inspired by a scene from Crocodile Dundee Two.
Tracks discussed: Welcome, Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves, Deep In the Glowing Heart
Listen to ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ here.
‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ - Domino Recordings
Intro Music - Sunshine Buddy, Laurel Collective
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