Eric Hilton - Poppy Fields

// Subscribe // //About the Music// On February 23rd, Eric Hilton brings you his new album Sound Vagabond, a 14-track sonic travelogue by one of the fathers of downtempo electronic music. As co-founder of the influential group Thievery Corporation, Hilton has spent decades merging diverse global genres into a singular music vision. Sound Vagabond is perhaps the ultimate iteration of this ethos, each track an audio picture postcard of a place real or imagined. “Some memories of the places I’ve been are very clear; others are distant, nostalgic echos,” says Hilton. “This record started modestly, with some basic ideas, but after writing the first 8 tracks I knew I had a travelogue.” Hilton’s hybridization of music influences and experiences is nowhere more evident than on the record’s title track. “Sound Vagabond“ locks into a vintage trip hop groove, while flutes and Northern African flavors drift in and out. It’s difficult to identify a s