We’re almost ready for the Sónar Festival but we keep discovering things about his line-up. He’s Roman Hiele (Belgium, 1991) but now living in London, and he’s composer and performer of electronic music. Roman is closely guarded against any kind of conscious or subconscious plagiarism. He seems completely focused on making sure that his creations are his and his alone, reflecting that early Belgian spirit of creative independence as he establishes himself as one of the most resolutely original voices in the electronic underground.
Hiele’s music surfaces in the form of hard to pin point electronica, build on a long time obsession for synthetic sound creation and jazz studies. On stage Hiele plays with expectation, going past what is considered conventional, blending improvisational and classical elements into a no-nonsense personal idiom.
After first bubbling up onto the scene in 2013 with his eponymous debut, Hiele has seen his off-kilter electronics released on the likes of Belgium’s influential Ekster label and the forward leaning aesthetics of YYAA Recordings. There is a restlessness to Hiele’s creations, a distinct avoidance of the tropes that provide the utilitarian bread and butter that keeps the electronic world ticking. In 2016 YYAA Recordings released Hiele’s performance in the Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin 2014. Recently (May 2016) Hiele has released “Ritmische Bezinning”, his third album on Ekster.
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