“I felt such bliss the first time I heard this piece – it seemed so mysterious and hypnotic, oblique but warm.”
Jon Hopkins has released a new cover of Thom Yorke’s track “Dawn Chorus”. It’s lifted from Yorke’s ANIMA LP.
Speaking to Mary Anne Hobbs on her BBC Radio 6 show earlier today (10 December), he explained that he recorded the single “kind of on a whim”.
“I felt such bliss the first time I heard this piece – it seemed so mysterious and hypnotic, oblique but warm. I thought there was so much beauty in that chord sequence that there was room to explore it on the piano and see what grew from it,” he adds in a press statement.
He goes on to say: “One day in early April when everything was particularly quiet and surreal outside, I went into my studio for the first time in weeks and ended up recording the whole thing in one take. I left it very raw and upfront, with just some sub bass and vocal drones in the background. The whole thing was done in a day and was a very cathartic experience.”
You can listen to his take on “Dawn Chorus” here and watch a visualiser below.
For more on what Yorke’s been up to recently alongside Four Tet and Burial, head here.
