Homeless Balloon
Acoustic • Electronica • World
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Biography
What made you want to start making music?
When I was five years old, my grandmother gave me a small, wooden zither with 12 strings and a nice sound. I remember how I explored the sound, discovered the scale and how the sound changed when I put my ear close to the wood. Six years old, I started learning to play violin, and I was soon playing in the school orchestra. Fourteen years old, I was a big fan of the Beatles and Stones, and I go an acoustic guitar. I started composing melodies and had great fun. Fifteen years old, I bought my first four track tape recorder (Tandberg) and started to record myself, my instruments and strange noises and sounds. Late came MIDI, StudioVisionPro (great sequencer!), ProTools - and here I am with my music project Homeless Balloon.
Tell us what your music is about? How has your subject matter evolved?
Since i love both acoustic, electric and electronic instruments - and I was born a melancholic - my music is ambient chill, sometimes very dreamy, other times even funky. I have composed original music for more than sixty television documentaries, radio plays and multimedia projects.
What artist(s) would you like to collaborate with? And why?
Improvising with Brian Eno would be fantastic! His approach to instruments - finding ways to use them that they were not meant for (quote) - is inspiring. I would probably play my Fender Strat with the eBow, running the sound through the MiniMoog Voyager and MetaSynth.
What has been your biggest challenge as an artist/band? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how?
My biggest challenge - which has happened several times - has been when the deadline for making music to a television documentary is only ten hours away, and I still haven't created anything I can be proud of. The night will be very short, and I have to use the hours very wisely. Being able to free myself from the pressure and just let the inspiration flow, is the biggest challenge.
What do you hope to accomplish with your music? How do you envision that happening?
Since I mostly compose music for television, my biproject Homeless Balloon is mostly for fun. I do my best to promote my music, but it takes too much time and usually hardly give any visible results at all. Still, when I from time to time get response from listeners who let me know that my music is inspiring and making them happy, all those hours were not at all wasted!
Band Members:
| Member Name | Instruments | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helge Krabye | Acoustic and electric guitar, Synthesizer, Violin, Percussion, Keyboard, Flutes |
Musical Influences:
The Beatles, Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Terry Reid, John Martyn, John McLaughlin, Karlheinz Stockhausen, FSOL, The Orb, Cern
Started Playing: August, 1959
Music
Albums
| Track Title | Length | Content | Favorites | Download | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daughters of Allah Arab Techno | 4:06 | Clean | Add to Playlist | Free | |
| Turkish Delight | 3:43 | Clean | Add to Playlist | Free | |
| Silence | 3:36 | Clean | Add to Playlist | $0.99 | |
| Peaceful | 1:56 | Clean | Add to Playlist | $0.99 | |
| Green | 2:08 | Clean | Add to Playlist | $0.99 |
| Track Title | Length | Content | Favorites | Download | |
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| The Frog Prince | 5:19 | Clean | Add to Playlist | Free |
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On MadeLoud
Apr 16, 2012
You don't often seen an artist list "acoustic" and "electronica" as two of the genres they work in, but that's exactly what Norwegian artist Helge Krabye a.k.a. Homeless Balloon does.
Like our interviewee Holmes, Krabye works in commercial sound design, where he has "composed original music for television documentaries, radio plays, fantasy stories and art projects since the beginning of the 90'...
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I'm turkish. thats very good!