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Helge Krabye
- composer, guitars and synths
Helge Krabye
- composer, guitars and synths
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» label: 24 Chillout Music
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acoustic guitar
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Music
My own remix of "Moog On The Dance Floor", a nuDisco inspired track. Download free version from http://www.noisetrade.com/hb/moog-on-the-dance-floor or here at SoundClick.
I have received some strong reactions to this track, from muslim men. The title 'Daughters of Allah' was chosen (like the music) to support the rights and beauty of muslim women who deserve to be treated with respect!
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Currently a free download! An ambient/experimental track to illustrate the power of communication, or perhaps the chaos that lack of communication can create.
A SoundClick Top 10 song
Kamtjatka is one of the big islands in the northern part of East Russia, a wild island with special nature. This music illustrates the island and was composed for a television documentary.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A groovy downtempo piece where I used my Fender Strat, MiniMoog and NI Maschine.
I created a special remix of my track "In A New World" and manipulated found voice samples with the great MetaSynth software. See my MetaSynth introduction for more info: http://www.homelessballoon.com/metasynth.php
A groovy world fusion track where ethnic guitar is mixed with electronica.
Two acoustic guitars in harmony, all improvised on my Ryoji Matsuoka M50 classical guitar. This is the last track on the album 'Hurry Slowly'.
A SoundClick #1 song
From Homeless Balloon's EP "Dream Away" which is the first in a series of several digital EP's. While the series will contain music in very different musical genres, this first EP is downtempo chillout.
Harmony by Homeless Balloon
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Note: this track is currently a free download! The official video for the composition 'Harmony' by Homeless Balloon, taken from the album 'Hurry Slowly' (24 Chillout Music).
Comments
commenting Riding On Meta Clouds (Single).mp3
posted on Thu April 18, 2013
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Nice percussion, and I really like that lo-fi sounding, repetitive melody. It's quite perky. It has a feeling to it.....like.....a feeling of stuff is happening, moving, driving. Things are getting done. Lol I know that is quite vague.
The Lime Room
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http://soundclick.com/TheLimeRoom
commenting Daughters of Allah Arab Techno
posted on Mon March 18, 2013
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Superb percussion - Takes me on a journey, a very nice one
Paul Mcilwaine
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http://soundclick.com/paulmcilwaine
commenting Harmony
posted on Mon March 18, 2013
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Marvellous guitar playing - sounds really masterful 10/10
Paul Mcilwaine
http://soundclick.com/paulmcilwaine
http://soundclick.com/paulmcilwaine
commenting The Traveller
posted on Fri November 9, 2012
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Hi Helge (do you still know me?),
I really like this one and I found your music as well on the Simfy music site.
Many greetings from Belgium!
Alexander.
I really like this one and I found your music as well on the Simfy music site.
Many greetings from Belgium!
Alexander.
Musan Dera
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http://soundclick.com/MusanDera
commenting The Traveller
posted on Fri October 19, 2012
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Love the synth work here. The texture and resonance is very good. Interesting melody with great use of instrumentation. Enjoyed!!!
Ascenzion
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http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
commenting African Landscape
posted on Sun October 14, 2012
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Exotic and prominent track. Really like the way you use the synth pads and other elements to tell your musical story... Terrific
Ascenzion
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http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
commenting Communication
posted on Sun October 14, 2012
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Adventurous excursion into ambient land of plenty. Sensational elements throughout creates a magnificent soundcape of delightful substance, rhythm, and wonderment...Very well done. Enjoyed listening
Ascenzion
http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
commenting Riding On Meta Clouds (Single).mp3
posted on Sat June 23, 2012
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Superb song, interesting effects, excellent recording!
MikeSch
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http://soundclick.com/mikesch
commenting China Into the Future
posted on Sat December 31, 2011
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Wonderful chants of Asian bliss. Stirring guitar work play with excellent supporting production values. Inspiring!!!
Ascenzion
http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
commenting Turkish Delight
posted on Sat April 16, 2011
very cool! love the flow and feel to this!
Kathy Reynolds
http://soundclick.com/kathyreynolds
http://soundclick.com/kathyreynolds
posted on Sun March 6, 2011
Hi Helge--As I was drifting off to sleep last night, I thought I heard your name mentioned on the radio show Hearts of Space. It was on a show about the end of winter--seemed appropriate. In any case, congrats!
Michael Hughes
http://soundclick.com/michaelhughes
http://soundclick.com/michaelhughes
commenting Turkish Delight
posted on Thu March 3, 2011
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Superb track - love it
Paul Mcilwaine
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http://soundclick.com/paulmcilwaine
commenting The Waiting
posted on Sun December 5, 2010
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Nice nice nice. Establishes a nice mood in the listener.
commenting China Main Theme
posted on Tue November 2, 2010
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What a enchanting composition. An extraordinary performance with marvelously sounds...really enjoyed the listen.
Ascenzion
http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
http://soundclick.com/ascenzion
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Homeless Balloon is Helge Krabye
Album graphics for "Moog On The Dance Floor - EP"
Dream Away - EP by Homeless Balloon
Travel in Silence by Homeless Balloon
Mysterious China by Homeless Balloon
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Oct 07, 2009
Hi music friends! Today, I released a brand new EP named "Moog On The Dance Floor". I hope you will enjoy the tracks and share the link to my page! Thanks!
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Homeless Balloon is the music project of the Norwegian composer, musician and multimedia artist Helge Krabye. He has composed original music for more than eighty television documentaries, radio plays, fantasy stories and art projects. He is known for combining acoustic instruments with experimental, electronic sounds. He is also a dedicated user of the innovative soft instrument MetaSynth. Homeless Balloon released two CD's in 2007 and four more in 2008. They are available in the iTunes Music Store, at emusic.com and from Homeless Balloon's official site. For a limited time, you may also download some tracks for free here at SoundClick (link at the right) for free :) And of course, you can purchase the music as individual downloads (highest quality 320 mbps) or albums in Homeless Balloon's Soundclick web shop (see the left menu). Feel free to share the songs of Homeless Balloon with your friends :)
Why this name?
It makes people curious, and they tend to imagine this free, floating balloon that has lost sight of where it belongs and have the feeling of being homeless... Well, the music is also free and floating, and because it mixes different musical genres and acoustic and electronic instruments, it?s kind of homeless, too.
Do you play live?
Now and then, with artist friends.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Just like recording your own music has become realistic for ordinary people, distributing and sharing (and sell) that music is possible for anybody. That is democracy! In the near future, jamming real time and composing over the Net will be big among musicians.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
I am signed on the independent record label "24 Chillout Music" where I am releasing my music on Audio-CD and as digital downloads (iTunes and more) in August (2007). The advantage of this is that I will keep all the rights to my own music, and I will get a higher income from selling my music. - If a huge record label should contact me and give me an excellent deal, I will of course reconcider my philosophy... Or perhaps I will tease them by turning their offer down? I have heard too many stories about record companies doing a bad job for the artists, and when the artists want to get out and become independent, they find out that they do not own the rights to their own music. That won't happen to me!
Band History:
Played violin from I was 6 until 14, then guitar and synthesizers. Started composing for radio (fantasy stories, radio plays, jingles, illustration music) in 1987 and for television (documentaries, vignettes, art programs) in 1994. Wanting to compose and create music as free as possible, I stopped composing for media and started consentration on developing my own, unique music and release it on CD in 2007.
Your influences?
In this order: The radio in our living room when I was a kid, The Beatles when I was 10, The Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Wonder (Music of my mind), Karlheinz Stockhausen (his tape loops in the 60's), Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison (Astral Weeks, St.Dominics Preview), Bob Dylan (everything!), John McLaughlin (anything), New Order, Jazz, Mozart, Beethoven, Arvo Part
Favorite spot?
My home cinema with my wife, my children, my Thomson 44" widescreen TV, my Celestion speakers in each corner - and a good DVD movie :-)
Equipment used:
MacPro with LogicPro, Korg Z-1, MetaSynth, Alembic bass guitar, Moog Voyager, Fender Stratocaster, pedals, e-bow, acoustic guitar
Anything else...?
The loudness war: Do you know this expression? If not, I am sure you know that more and more commercial CD's sound too LOUD! It's ok when the sound has power and presence, but not when the sound is flat and overcompressed and pumping and distorted and ugly. So many great bands and artists have become victims of the loudness war or loudness race that the big record labels fight against each other. Support the idea of dynamics and great sound on CD's, and complain to the record companies when you purchas a CD with bad sound!
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