Justin Hopper has made an invitingly out of place and out of time mixtape for Concrete Islands to accompany the Chanctonbury Rings album on Ghost Box
Chanctonbury Rings by Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly is an album we described as “an oddly comforting avant-garde masterpiece” in our review, so it’s safe to say that it is a Concrete Islands favourite. We’re therefore delighted to present Justin Hopper’s mixtape he prepared for us. It follows fascinating ley lines and is a fine companion to Chanctonbury Rings. If you want more Hopper after this, then run around in a circle seven times widdershins and you may summon him to your home.
Liner notes by Justin Hopper:
Archaeological pianos, fragments of text, guitars and poems that spin slowly, slowly in rings: the tracks included in this mix are inspired by a feeling that populates the album Chanctonbury Rings. That feeling is of being just oh-so-slightly out of place and out of time. Not the amphetamine rush of profound placelessness nor the vertigo of deep timelessness: no, these mostly calm pieces of music, poetry and prose are filled with the raised-eyebrow of the vestigial; it is, I hope, the Buffalo nickel amongst your late-night, post-pub shrapnel.
Bio:
Justin Hopper is an American writer in Britain. His work explores the intersection of landscape, memory and myth. His book The Old Weird Albion, poetic essays on memory and the South Downs, is available from Penned in the Margins. The spoken word and music album Chanctonbury Rings – by Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly – launches 21 June via Ghost Box Records.
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