Homeless Balloon

Homeless Balloon is the music project of Norwegian composer and multimedia artist Helge Krabye. His background is in sound design and video editing, and he has composed original music for more than eighty television documentaries, radio plays, fantasy stories and multimedia projects. He is known for combining acoustic instruments with experimental, electronic sounds. His music is inspired by both world fusion, electronica, acoustic, classical, jazz and film music. He has released six audio CD’s (buy at Bandcamp), one audio EP, a double digital album and sixteen digital EP's on his label 24 Chillout Music. Helge Krabye learned to play violin at the age of six, and he picked up the guitar as a teenager. In his early thirties he started experimenting with computers, MIDI and synthesizers, and his background in classical music has made his compositions suitable for moving pictures. Homeless Balloon sounds Like: Enigma, Vangelis, Air, David Sylvian, Moby, Massive Attack and sometimes Pink Floyd. Influences: The Beatles, Mozart, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, John Martyn, Yes and Joni Mitchell.