![]() The piece that came out was slow and simple but had a weird melancholic dreaminess to it, which when combined with the cafe sounds, had a kind of nostalgic or emotional effect that i liked. When i was back at the studio, i played this recording back whilst playing the piano. Disappointingly, you can just about hear me asking for a receipt. So we went into a cafe on the shore, and i recorded what went on in there, picking up the voices of the girls serving us, a bit of the conversation we were having, and the noise of cups clattering and hot drinks being made. We were in Anstruther harbour and i had wanted to pick up the sounds of the sails hitting the masts in the wind, but in the end the wind itself was all that got picked up. JON - I was up in Fife staying with Kenny, and we were driving around the towns and countryside collecting field recordings. He taped us jawing away on a sunny cafe terrace in Anstruther one day in early May, and made a thing of beauty, local accents and all. KC - Other than the title, and some inane chatter about family allergies, this is Jon's baby. Described by King Creosote as a "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village", the record weaves in slices of Fife life - bike wheels, spring tides, tea cups and café chatter, featuring lyrics and vocals from King Creosote sung over musical backdrops arranged and recorded by Jon Hopkins. It was a deep experience.Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) & Jon Hopkins talk us through their album, Diamond Mine. I want people to hear not just the recordings but to feel how it felt to be there and make them. But the importance of letting the outside world into the recordings is as present for me as ever, so there are layers of incidental noise, bird song, the sound of someone washing up in the studio kitchen - whatever was going on outside my room is included and even accentuated. I loved the simplicity of having my old upright piano be the centre of a whole record for the first time. It seems to me that melody is universal and the ones that I really connect to shine out irrespective of genre or context, whether from techno, folk or whatever. “Piano Versions is four minimal, ambient piano covers of songs I have loved for a long time but that come from very different places. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston, are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. A collection of ambient piano covers from the critically acclaimed composer and producer Jon Hopkins. ![]()
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