Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. The pioneering, aggressive music produced by his band Heldon during the 1970s, fusing electronics, guitar and rock, heralded the industrial and techno to come and remains today vital and un...   [ read more ]

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'In this album, Richard Pinhas consolidates his position as the reigning master of mesmerizing, trance/ambient guitar while also pushing further into the hybrid rock/jazz territory which he began exploring in his previous 2004 release, Tranzition. In his early experiments with tape loops, Pinhas acknowledged a major debt to Robert Fripp, but the French guitarist displays a wide range of strategies on this recording, which include but are certainly not limited to the basic but effective Frippertronics conc...   [ read more ]

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'Pinhas' playing, on both guitar and synthesizers, has always had a strange reserve to it, even when he was leader of the powerful, riff-oriented {prog rock} band Heldon in the mid- to late '70s. He never comfortably assumed the mantle of a rock god, even with his natural advantage of good looks and charisma. Instead, throughout his career he has always seemed more interested in science fiction, electronic music technology, and abstruse philosophical discourse than any kind of popular acclaim. (Pre-Heldon...   [ read more ]

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