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Ceremony

by Eric Hilton

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therealevildad soon as i listened to this track
i had to buy the album
im new to bandcamp i was looking for music that moves me
Eric Hilton Ceremony definitely the best album I've heard in a long time
Thanks Eric Favorite track: Who are You?.
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dj_dr_jeep Great spheric music. Helps me to drift away in this grey and dull days.
Cheers, Thomas from Berlin Favorite track: The Depths.
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trevor copeland Sonically on point. just superb.
ij13
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ij13 The soundscape created is as always phenomenal! I've played entire album repeatedly while cutting gemstones, and don't expect to stop playing it anytime soon. Favorite track: The Depths.
Michael Katz
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Michael Katz Massive album,Eric!

Thanks for all the tunes, vibes, and inspiration through the years! Favorite track: Obscura.
Carbon Based Lifeform
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Carbon Based Lifeform Eric Hilton has blended two of my favourite poisons - ambient electronica and Thievery Corporation funk - into a powerful cocktail that just works. This album is like flying the Eighteenth Street Lounge into deep space and watching the stars and nebulae float by... Profound and gorgeous. Favorite track: The Depths.
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    Musician/producer Eric Hilton takes listeners on a blunted journey through space with his new album “Ceremony", 13 tracks of emotive interstellar psychedelia, out on August 20th. Hilton’s masterful ability to mix disparate musical ingredients was well established during his 25-year tenure as co-founder of the legendary genre-hopping downtempo electronic music act Thievery Corporation. But in his newfound solo work, the artist has crafted a sonic universe uniquely his own.

    “Ceremony” is the 3rd solo record Hilton has released during the past year, a period of prolific awakening for the veteran musician and producer, which the album title alludes to. “Ceremony acknowledges the exercise of sitting alone to draw musical vibrations from the ether, which I do on a regular basis,” says Hilton. “It’s the most centering, grounding thing I do, and I didn’t really do it until I became a solo artist. Now I’m hooked. Interpreting life experiences, consciousness, and putting that into a musical form - that's the ceremony.”

    Hilton moved house from D.C. to a more rural setting prior to the making of “Ceremony”, and the bucolic surroundings had a definite influence on the writing process for this album. “Being in nature brought more of an “ambient” aspect into this record - I like certain aspects of ambient music.” said the artist. But “Ceremony” grooves far too purposefully to be mistaken for anything like a traditional “ambient record”, so those aspects manifest themselves here as an intelligent spaciousness within which the songs exist.

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    Get all four of Eric Hilton's solo albums on CD in this special collection bundle.
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    * Infinite Everywhere
    * The Impossible Silence
    * Ceremony (Autographed)
    * Lost Dialect (Autographed)

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    * Infinite Everywhere
    * The Impossible Silence
    * Ceremony (double album)
    * Lost Dialect
    * Present Past and Future

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    Musician/producer Eric Hilton takes listeners on a blunted journey through space with his new album “Ceremony", 13 tracks of emotive interstellar psychedelia, out on August 20th. Hilton’s masterful ability to mix disparate musical ingredients was well established during his 25-year tenure as co-founder of the legendary genre-hopping downtempo electronic music act Thievery Corporation. But in his newfound solo work, the artist has crafted a sonic universe uniquely his own.

    “Ceremony” is the 3rd solo record Hilton has released during the past year, a period of prolific awakening for the veteran musician and producer, which the album title alludes to. “Ceremony acknowledges the exercise of sitting alone to draw musical vibrations from the ether, which I do on a regular basis,” says Hilton. “It’s the most centering, grounding thing I do, and I didn’t really do it until I became a solo artist. Now I’m hooked. Interpreting life experiences, consciousness, and putting that into a musical form - that's the ceremony.”

    Hilton moved house from D.C. to a more rural setting prior to the making of “Ceremony”, and the bucolic surroundings had a definite influence on the writing process for this album. “Being in nature brought more of an “ambient” aspect into this record - I like certain aspects of ambient music.” said the artist. But “Ceremony” grooves far too purposefully to be mistaken for anything like a traditional “ambient record”, so those aspects manifest themselves here as an intelligent spaciousness within which the songs exist.

    While “Ceremony” was birthed in the wilds of Maryland, sonically the boundaries of this record seem to exist outside the earth’s atmosphere. With track titles like “Particles”, “Forming Star”, “Adrift”, and “Fade into Forever”, it’s easy to imagine Hilton as the lone passenger tripping on some giant starship, looking through the viewscreen and jamming along on his bass while stars are born or die. An acoustic guitar solo brings the album’s title track to an elegant pause before building the song back up again - a moment Hilton calls “pure 1970’s rock”. And on “Who Are You?” (one of the first singles), crystalline melodies intertwine like near misses in an asteroid field. Needle dropping, the songs work as individual episodes drawn from an epic cosmic journey.

    But no matter how deep into space "Ceremony" brings the listener, they will never feel cold or alone in the void. There is warmth and humanity in this music, which can surely be mapped to Hilton’s deeply personal composition process. “Creativity is always purely personal. I'm a big believer in artists only making art for themselves, I find it dangerous when you start thinking too much about what the listener might like,” said the composer. “You have to start with yourself if you want to effect other people. I remind myself, why am I doing this? Because I love it.” And a key to Eric Hilton’s newly prodigious output is knowing when a project is finished. His advice to aspiring creatives? "There are a thousand good ways to do something, and a thousand bad ways - so just choose one of the good ways. The point is not perfection, it’s to express something and then move on to the next thing. Don’t polish your fabergé egg for the rest of your life….make more of them!”

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Ceremony 05:20
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Forming Star 04:53
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Obscura 03:56
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Strata 1 03:52
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Embrace 03:55
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Soundgazing 04:02
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Sarod 03:09
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Hermitage 03:50
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The Depths 02:47
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Particles 04:20
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Adrift 04:34
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Musician/producer Eric Hilton takes listeners on a blunted journey through space with his new album “Ceremony", 13 tracks of emotive interstellar psychedelia, out on August 20th. Hilton’s masterful ability to mix disparate musical ingredients was well established during his 25-year tenure as co-founder of the legendary genre-hopping downtempo electronic music act Thievery Corporation. But in his newfound solo work, the artist has crafted a sonic universe uniquely his own.

“Ceremony” is the 3rd solo record Hilton has released during the past year, a period of prolific awakening for the veteran musician and producer, which the album title alludes to. “Ceremony acknowledges the exercise of sitting alone to draw musical vibrations from the ether, which I do on a regular basis,” says Hilton. “It’s the most centering, grounding thing I do, and I didn’t really do it until I became a solo artist. Now I’m hooked. Interpreting life experiences, consciousness, and putting that into a musical form - that's the ceremony.”

Hilton moved house from D.C. to a more rural setting prior to the making of “Ceremony”, and the bucolic surroundings had a definite influence on the writing process for this album. “Being in nature brought more of an “ambient” aspect into this record - I like certain aspects of ambient music.” said the artist. But “Ceremony” grooves far too purposefully to be mistaken for anything like a traditional “ambient record”, so those aspects manifest themselves here as an intelligent spaciousness within which the songs exist.

While “Ceremony” was birthed in the wilds of Maryland, sonically the boundaries of this record seem to exist outside the earth’s atmosphere. With track titles like “Particles”, “Forming Star”, “Adrift”, and “Fade into Forever”, it’s easy to imagine Hilton as the lone passenger tripping on some giant starship, looking through the viewscreen and jamming along on his bass while stars are born or die. An acoustic guitar solo brings the album’s title track to an elegant pause before building the song back up again - a moment Hilton calls “pure 1970’s rock”. And on “Who Are You?” (one of the first singles), crystalline melodies intertwine like near misses in an asteroid field. Needle dropping, the songs work as individual episodes drawn from an epic cosmic journey.

But no matter how deep into space "Ceremony" brings the listener, they will never feel cold or alone in the void. There is warmth and humanity in this music, which can surely be mapped to Hilton’s deeply personal composition process. “Creativity is always purely personal. I'm a big believer in artists only making art for themselves, I find it dangerous when you start thinking too much about what the listener might like,” said the composer. “You have to start with yourself if you want to effect other people. I remind myself, why am I doing this? Because I love it.” And a key to Eric Hilton’s newly prodigious output is knowing when a project is finished. His advice to aspiring creatives? "There are a thousand good ways to do something, and a thousand bad ways - so just choose one of the good ways. The point is not perfection, it’s to express something and then move on to the next thing. Don’t polish your fabergé egg for the rest of your life….make more of them!”

Having tackled primarily instrumental music on his first three solo records - "Infinite Everywhere", "The Impossible Silence" and his newest album “Ceremony”, Eric Hilton will next release a collaborative project with guest vocalists and musicians, likely before the end of 2021.


Enter the groove nebula - join Eric Hilton’s “Ceremony”, out August 20th on Montserrat House Music.

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Eric Hilton Washington, D.C.

On his stunning new album “Lost Dialect”, Eric Hilton speaks the 12-bit vernacular of trip-hop, a genre he helped birth as a co-founder of the legendary downtempo electronic music act Thievery Corporation. Across ten expansive tracks, the artist/producer uses old-school skills to craft new school chill. The old ways remain strong. Speak the "Lost Dialect." ... more

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