This is Gabriel Prokofiev's first release for Nonclassical – the label that he founded – in six years. 'Six Hesit Heist' is a collision of orchestra and electronic clicks, synths, kicks & field recording. Gabriel was in need of some energised, beat driven music to lift his spirits during lock-down, when he found 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. Though it was impossible to record an orchestra due to lockdown, he had spent much of the year working with orchestral samples (when working on the score for a new Indian sci-fi series) so decided to go against classical norms and use whatever was available to realise the track… The end result is ‘post-covid orchestral’ beat (in six) married with scattering electronic gestures, doubled analogue synth arpeggios, and an evocative found sounds.