RA Sessions: Jon Hopkins with Leo Abrahams - Heron (Extended) | Resident Advisor

Our intimate film series returns with a performance by two artists who have been playing together since they were 15. For obvious reasons, RA Sessions, our long-running film series of intimate live performances, was put on hold in February 2020. The hiatus is now over. Last month, 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.