RA Sessions return with a performance by two artists who have been playing together since they were 15 – Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, two British musicians who have been playing together since they were teenagers, stopped by our London office to perform “Heron,” a cover of a James Yorkston song that Hopkins first wrote around ten years ago. He has since revisited the track for a new EP, Piano Versions. With Hopkins on piano and Abrahams on electric guitar, “Heron (Extended)” is a l...
RA Sessions return with a performance by two artists who have been playing together since they were 15 – Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, two British musicians who have been playing together since they were teenagers, stopped by our London office to perform “Heron,” a cover of a James Yorkston song that Hopkins first wrote around ten years ago. He has since revisited the track for a new EP, Piano Versions. With Hopkins on piano and Abrahams on electric guitar, “Heron (Extended)” is a longer, improvised version of the original cover. Hopkins says him and Abrahams share a “musical telepathy,” which you can hear in the way the haunting notes mingle and soar. The stillness and gentle pace feels befitting of the times.
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