FiRE by HLFMN

HLFMN continue his sonic exploration driving an innovative and personal research to the Urban Music world, picking up elements from a wide range of underground cultural influences and revisiting them with his personal ability to create something new and very recognizable.

HLFMN new album called "FiRE" can't be really labelled in a specific genre due to his urge to tell diverse stories and mixed emotions, that lead him to choose a different style to each song, from classic Hip Hop to Grime Rap, passing through Trip-Hop, Uk-Garage, IDM and Future Bass where, unlike previous works, often appear MC’s verses and rhymes, properly altered to sound childish or alien; his passion for traditional and exotic music has remained intact, as you can hear all along this new LP, with a state-of-the-art sampling of tibetan, indonesian and japanese typical instruments.

"My main goal has always been to mix old traditional instruments with the current electronic music trends, to create a different and personal Dance music style; to build this album i've sampled different instruments like bamboo-based gamelan rindik and jegog, plucked instruments like greek lyre and kora and african/arabic percussions . I like to instill a ritualistic vibration in each composition to create an energetic yet meditative mood in the listener, a sacred conversation between present and past."

Hidden behind a half-divided mask symbolising the meeting of Heaven and Earth is the creative mind of HLFMN, or Half Man. The inspired Italian musician’s otherworldly sound draws influence from everything under the sun, including Chinese opera and country music. HLFMN blends old-world instruments with big beats, urban music and glitchy electronics with an ear to the past and an eye to the future.

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