Jackson Hill

Born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Jackson Hill began playing the bass at the age of 10 and has since forged a genre-eschewing path as a bassist and collaborator alongside artists including Son Lux, Rafiq Bhatia, Xenia Rubinos, and William Brittelle. In 2022, Jackson released his first solo EP, Rabbit Feather, which juxtaposed synthetic soundscapes against living, breathing instrumental performances, with the bass serving as a recurring point of departure for sampling and manipulation.

Jackson’s latest release, Empty Egg of Purity, is a collaboration with Holy Cowow, who contributed musical ideas, album art, and ephemera. The EP’s four tracks were inspired by the pairs’ combined interests in open world video game play, ambient music, new age spiritualism, and medieval drone music. The resulting project as a whole loosely depicts a fantastical geography made up of zones that are both physical and metaphysical, ancient and futuristic, earthly and otherworldly.

Empty Egg of Purity looks to pick up where Jackson left off with Rabbit Feather in bringing into focus contrasting organic and artificial instrumentation while embracing new concepts and collaborations that further expand his approach to musical world building.