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,, Subscribe, , , ,About the Music, , On February 23rd, Eric Hilton brings you his new album Sound Vagabond, a 14track sonic travelogue by one of the fathers of downtempo electronic music. As cofounder 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. Hiltons hybridization of music influences and experiences is nowhere more evident than on the records title track. Sound Vagabond locks into a vintage trip hop groove, while flutes and Northern African flavors drift in and out. Its difficult to identify a s