- 2024-10-30
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MUSIC
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Jon Hopkins Releases New Song “Forever Held” with Ólafur Arnalds
London-based music producer Jon Hopkins released a new song “Forever Held” on October 30, 2024.
This time, he teamed up with Icelandic multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds on the track.
The track was crafted for Space for Earth, which is NASA's first immersive experience open to the public commissioned by NASA and located at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC.
The song was inspired by letters written by NASA Creative Director and artist Erica Bernhard during the creation of the installation.
The song is his first music since the seventh studio album “RITUA”, which was released back in August.
It was written and produced by Jon Hopkins.
The accompanying music video was directed by Erica Bernhard.
The song, the music video stills, the original letters and pieces of the Space for Earth installation, have been engraved and encoded onto a NanoFiche disk which will be sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex via NASA CLPS.- Jon Hopkins said of the song, “I took this opportunity to create a full orchestral piece. I wanted to make something timeless that would transmit the feeling of being 'held' by the Earth. I was thinking about the fragility and power of our planet, and of the human race's role in its own destiny.”
Ahead of the release the song, British rock band Coldplay used the song to open on the title track of their tenth studio album “MOON MUSiC”, which was released this month. -
Jon Hopkins said, “My relationship with Coldplay goes back 17 years. I was working with Brian Eno a lot when he started producing Coldplay's Viva La Vida, back in 2007. He asked me to go into the studio and add some sounds and jam with the band a bit, to bring more electronic experimentation into their sound. At the time I was in the middle of writing Insides, and after playing an early version of Light Through the Veins to the band, it ended up forming the intro and outro to that record, which changed a lot of stuff for me and gave me the freedom to really focus on Immunity. It's a relationship that is still going, and includes their most recent album, Moon Music. The title track begins with an adaptation of a new installation piece of mine called Forever Held, which I made in collaboration with NASA, and Erica Bernhard. My version of this will be released next week. I also co-wrote and co-produced A Wave and several others on the album.”
Jon Hopkins also featured on the latest iteration of Charli xcx's “Brat”, contributing to “I might say something stupid” with The 1975 on “Brat and it's completely different but also still brat”. - source : Apple Music
