Post-Schengen pop: Dutch songwriter Olivier Heim, born in the States, raised in Luxembourg, moves to Copenhagen and forms a band called Très.b with a Pole and an Englishman. The band moves to Maastricht, records an album and then makes waves primarily in Poland with awards and chart positions. Heim’s infidelities to Trés.b first manifest in a solo project called Anthony Chorale, pensively sparkling falsetto-pop for guitar and cello. But his self-discovery goes on, Heim finds his own name and a completely new sound. Immersing his music in a palette of pastels, chorus effects and slap delays A Different Life marks his first appearance as Olivier Heim. Heim now postures as a tender dandy who à la recherche du temps perdu indulges in blurry memories, while imaginably sipping rosé in a white linen suit. Shy, sensitive and handsome. Yacht pop, 70s and blue wave. Cautiously funky it is the right soundtrack to breakfast with bubbly with friends or lovers on the balcony. Today Heim lives in Warsaw where A Different Life was born. Incidentally a Berliner was involved in the recordings: Adam Byczkowski aka Better Person, who surfaced at last year’s festival as a DJ and who explored similarly sensitive territories with his soundcloud hit I Wake Up Tired.

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