Jon Hopkins - Breathe This Air | Guardian Sessions

Jon Hopkins performs an improvised stripped-back version of Breathe This Air with Leo Abrahams on guitar at St Sepulchre church in London.
The song, taken from his Asleep Versions EP, is a meditative reflection on a theme originally developed in an electronic version from his album Immunity. The subtleties of this acoustic version are best heard through headphones.

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[jason.h.zager]

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Jon Hopkins
Their songs polish my soul and makes me feel emotions i never knew i had in me

[AlwaresHUN]

The work of Jon Hopkins is the most inspirational thing in music nowadays.

[tonytiger]

I’m 52 years old. Once quite busily involved in music. Jon, Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, these three have created music I feel that I’ve been waiting for all my life. Inspirational.
For the first time in 25 years, I have a piano. Now I’m off to buy an eBow so that I can rekindle that particular passion, with a little inspiration from this beautiful Guardian Session.
Thanks The Grauniad 😉 Thanks Jon.

[goingMars]

Amazing…and kudos to the sound engineer for capturing this magic so well…

[earlgrey]

Jon hopkins inspired me to start making music myself. Then he inspired me to quit making music, as i learned just how amazingly good what he does is and that i will never make anything like that myself. Not even if i devote all my free time to it. So now i'm back to just listening, but with a heightend sense of appreciation for music.

[thecrushlife]

This song is actually my favourite song of all time, when I ask others to listen they think it's strange and they don't like it, it makes me feel sad, but young, heartbroken but happy

[jyni]

I think the true quality of a musical genius is somebody who can cross genres. Jon Hopkins is testimony to this.

[theGuardian]

Jon Hopkins performs a beautiful, stripped-back version of Breathe This Air.

[theboyinbrown]

Every time i listen to this song, it makes me cry. He puts so much emotion into his music and i love it. 

[Wolfdings]

For me one of the most brilliant, most gifted, most versatile and most humble artists the world has ever seen. This music is pure love!

[thetechcorner]

I would argue that Immunity is his best song, who's with me?

[jeremyjohnthompson]

the best musician the earth has seen. the absolute best. Compositions from JH belong in a space capsule to go to the aliens to show them how good we are

[DeannaRodger]

still the kindest thing to watch on youtube

[asselinjean-philippe]

Wonderful sensitivity in this piece, simply from the soul!

[FFeline]

This brings me to tears. Effortlessly generous and utterly beautiful.

[RandomButtonPusher]

So calming and soothing. The spaces play as importantly as the notes.

[tylergilliland]

Music is music to me when it TAKES me somewhere. Im somewhere else when I listen to this. This piece of music has made my day.

[Khanarchy]

I’ve been listening to his music for a long time now. He’s a gentle genius. He inspires me to make music. He’s an amazing artist and it is my dream to watch him perform live and probably meet him too.

[albiondervishi]

He is genius composer and artist. We should appreciate his gift for the generation to come.

[edwardhitten]

SImplicity at his peak, reaching a genius touching mood.