David Helpling

"Music is always in my head. That's how I write. I'm always dreaming."
As a young teen, David Helpling pushed himself to learn guitar - experimenting with various effects and signal processors to create illusions with sound. Together with his passion for synthesizers and percussion, this guitar sound became centric to a complete vision and musical style that expresses sonic moods with a definite soundtrack feel.
David's debut release, Between Green and Blue, was a finalist for the INDIE Album-Of-The-Year award. On his second release, Sleeping On The Edge Of The World, the artist took his unmistakable style and dense sound sculptures to a deeper, more powerful and cinematic level.
As an accomplished and highly sought after composer of music scores for film, David is continually honing his compositional skills. “Creating music for film and video projects is wonderful and rewarding…but it also has its limitations. I think the emotional writing and technical experience of scoring certainly gets me closer to the core of what is important in my own music.”
Working side by side with Jon Jenkins, David’s driven pursuit to create the music of his dreams was fully realized with the release of Treasure. The international success of this collaborative album proves that the combination of these two artists is explosive and limitless.
Helpling and Jenkins are fearless in their pursuit of the lush and monumental sound that dominates their artistic vision. On their latest release THE CROSSING, all the essentials for an epic musical journey are here: compelling and expansive multi-layered drum elements contrasted by alluring yet elusive textures, strong melodies appearing over powerful percussion, synths and guitars, all of which give way to vast spaces of deep and mystifying ambience. From grand melodic vistas to enveloping sonic clouds of textural mystery, The Crossing leads the listener to the ends of the earth, and beyond...