Oliver Doerell

Oliver Doerell's sonic fingerprint reverberates through estrangement, abstraction and mysticism. He is exploring these dimensions of sound with the use of homemade instruments, organic sounds, electronic loops, technical experimentation and distortion.

Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1969, he began his musical journey at the age of 14. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1990, where he developed his musical expression. Oliver Doerell is the founding member of Dictaphone, SWOD, Raz Ohara and the Odd Orchestra, Cummi Flu, and he also composed music for films and dance/theatre projects. His works with Dictaphone have been featured on notable labels such as Denovali and Sonic Pieces. He has performed concerts around the world during more than 20 years of musical career.

Theatre is another ground of artistic expression for multi-instrumentalist Oliver Doerell. He met the German-Iranian dancer and choreographer Modjgan Hashemian in 2006 and since then worked on 10 dance theatre pieces together. This encounter introduced him to Persian musicians like Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Behrouz Tavakol, and Jawad Salkhordeh.

Oliver Doerell's music defies easy definition as his style is often considered too left-field or avant-garde and has been a source of influence for acclaimed artists such as Nils Frahm. His acoustic horizons travel through a diverse range of analogue explorations, electro-acoustic jazzy reverberations and nostalgic rhythms.