Helder Rock

Hello I am Helder Rock, an English multi-instrumentalist and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, Jazz, Classical, electronic music, and a film score composer for the last 4 years.
I was born in Blackpool (U.K.) and started my steps in music with the age of 6, at 12 entered a Music Academy where studied Classical Guitar and joined several groups of different genres, played Jazz, Hard Rock, New Age and Folk.
The conservatoire experience and the contacts that the academic circle provided, turned me into someone more introspected regarding my own appreciation of Music; becoming more interested in the experimental exercises of bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, the complex arrangements of Camel and above all the singularity and individualism of Jean-Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield and Vangelis to name just a few.
Being a loner and always with difficulties on making friendships or to establish stable relationships, the “one man band” or multi-instrumentalist seemed to be the natural way for me to make my music, after experiencing several attempts to fit in bands but never managing to, possibly due to having A.D.H.D.
I was nominee for Best Film Composer in the 2016 WIND Film Festival in Hollywood. And has worked as composer in different films.