Ritual
by Jon Hopkins
- Type: Album
- Released: 30 August 2024
- Label: Domino
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 41:14
- Community rating: 3.59/5 from 8 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Designed explicitly as a single, continuous 41-minute composition, the renowned electronic producer expands upon the deeply meditative, beatless ambient work of his previous release. Driven by themes of ceremony and collective consciousness, the slowly evolving soundscape builds from quiet acoustic drones to overwhelming, deeply emotional synthesizer crescendos.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, suite, ritualistic, repetitive, ambient, electronic, droning, long-form
Tracklist
- part i - altar (4:43)
- part ii - palace / illusion (7:41)
- part iii - transcend / lament (3:30)
- part iv - the veil (3:14)
- part v - evocation (4:55)
- part vi - solar goddess return (4:48)
- part vii - dissolution (6:37)
- part viii - nothing is lost (5:42)
Credits
- Stephen McNally - artwork
- Daisy Vatalaro - cello
- Leo Abrahams - guitar
- Matt Hillier - music librarian [synthesis & sample librarian], sounds [shepard tones], other [portals]
- Experiments In Silence - sounds [additional arpeggiation]
- 7RAYS - synthesizer [anlogues], drums [ritual drums]
- Emma Smith - violin, viola
- Vylana - vocals