New Single: 'SIX HESIT HEIST ' Out on 8th January 2021
His first electronic-classical single in more than 5 years, SIX HESIT HEIST is a collision of orchestra and electronic clicks, synths, kicks, and field recording. It conjures images of inner-city-scapes, a sense of adventure, and a moment of escape above the city which uses a field recording Gabriel made in Seoul, South Korea - which is where the above photo was taken.
In need of some energised, beat-driven music to lift his spirits during lockdown, Gabriel came across an unused sketch from his recent, Ivors Award nominated ballet score, Sense of Time. It had a syncopated orchestral beat that fired up his inspiration, and within a few days it was a finished composition. While impossible to record an orchestra during lockdown, he had spent much of the year working with orchestral samples and decided to go against classical norms to use whatever was available to realise the track.
The end result is a 'post-covid orchestral' beat (in six) married with scattering electronic gestures, doubled analogue synth arpeggios, and evocative found sounds.
