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| Antoine Paganoti: drumsInfluences Video Clip from Metatron Sounds LikeRobert Fripp, Brian Eno, God Speed You Black Emperor!Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Aphex Twin, Out Hud, Windy and Carl, Scanner, Autechre...Since, Pinhas has continued to create new music, including a planned collaboration recording and touring with electronic noise rockers Wolf Eyes.Incorporating influences from and sharing aesthetics with the work of Fripp, Eno, Scanner, Autechre and Godspeed You!Tanti auguri al tuo MacBook !!!Parisian "concert, if next !!Thank you so much for the add.Anyway : I'm glad to be here !Thanks for being Friends with Red Lounge Records!Merci pour l'ajout,les bikinies aiment heldonet vous saluent.Richard Pinhas pour tout le travail fait avec webdeleuze.CANT WAIT TO SEE YALL AT G3 IN SF!Richard Pinhas is internationally recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians: the "father" of French electronic music.Cited as an influence by many electronic musicians, Richard Pinhas has helped to define the Spacemusic genre.Eno, Pinhas' music is "specifically emotional yet tinged with theory.From the raw synthesis of the first Heldon album Electronic Guerrilla, followed by the Fripp influenced Allez Teia, the high energy of It's Always Rock 'n Roll, the dark density of Agenta Nilsson, to the deep ambience of his solo release Iceland, in his lifetime Richard Pinhas has traversed genres and established a few of his own.In March of 1999, Richard Pinhas made a brief concert tour of a few select cities in the USA.As part of this autumn's tour on North America, Richard Pinhas returned to Philadelphia on 2 November 2002.Pinhas performed on electric guitar and was joined by Jerome Schmidt on laptop computer.This tour marks the release of the duo's new album Event and Repetitions (Cuneiform).Richard Pinhas
This is his 18th album with Heldon or under his own name!Frippesque soundscapes performed by Richard Pinhas.Maurice Dantec on the Schizotrope project, which honored philosopher Gilled Deleuze, a friend of Pinhas' who died in 1995.Q: Who is
Richard Pinhas and what's he done lately?Norman Spinrad ("Little Heroes",
a novel Spinrad dedicated to him!Saturn, Paris and your favorite frozen
hellspawn glacier!It was just a piece of wood to me.Because this is very much a guitar album, more so than it would seem at
first hearing."Next time you call me an object, I'll slap your face!"Pinhas can be and is more direct.He likes playing guitar live (sitting
down, mostly) and likes to record with bass and drums.But he is conscious of the musical current in which he swims, regardless
of his position in it.I'm happy not to feel
too far away, to feel that I belong to the same family.Eno albums, but Eno
solo, not at all.Pinhas albums have been reissued on CD
in the US (on Cuneiform) and in Japan."Actuel," in 1974, he was sent to LA to interview Norman Spinrad,
who introduced him to Philip K.Multiple" (Of the One and the Multiple), expected out and ready
next year.Same with Pinhas: "When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or
reading philosophy.Having released a new double CD on Cuneiform and
completing a Japanese tour, Richard Pinhas, "Father of French
Electronic Music", sets his sights on performing in North America.Pinhas is a key figure in the international
development of electronic rock music.Heldon) with his later dark and brooding stylistic compositions.This music also incorporates deeper levels, as Pinhas integrates his
passion for science fiction and his background in philosophy (Ph.Burroughs, Maurice Dantec, Philip K.In addition to the music, there is a QuickTime video shot
by Alain Bellaiche with footage from Richard and Jerome's 2004 North
American tour.Richard Pinhas "Metatron"
"...Pinhas has released approximately 20 solo and
Heldon
CDs, most of them released by or reissued on Cuneiform.Critics are calling
Pinhas' newest work his most mature and perhaps best solo guitar work
to date.CD set
of his Heldon music.Richard Pinhas now looks to tour in North America.Beyond the Montreal Jazz Fest, he is available to
perform other shows in North America either before or after the
Montreal dates.If you are interested in booking a West
Coast
premier
performance by Pinhas or a date in between, or know of concert bookers,
arts organizations, radio stations, upcoming music festival or venues
who would be interested in helping to book a show in the US, please
contact Jerome Schmidt.Gilles Deleuze, Pinhas currently runs the French philospher's
website, which you can visit at www.Heldon and Richard Pinhas are considered building blocks for
whole schools of experimental rock music, and one of the few who rarely
fail to deliver on the hype.""Richard Pinhas demonstrates that he is
capable of
constructing some of the most formidable but exhilharating sonic
edifices ever heard by mortal ears."Want More Richard Pinhas?Highlights: A smokin version of her hit single Tambourine and a killer verse from Party Like a Rockstar.Biography
Richard Pinhas was born in 1951 and soon becomes one of the most active musicians in France in the early 70s.After may 68, he studies philosophy at la Sorbonne and obtains in PhD and attends courses by Gilles Deleuze, who soon becomes a friend and an inspirator.Gilles Deleuze, the famous philosopher on voices, around the text of Nietzsche, in 1972.Widemann and the list goes on.Richard did many solo album from 79 to 96 under his name and reformed Heldon after more than 17 albums.The name of the band was taken from the 1972 novel The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad.Like its predecessor Schizo, it is above all the group of guitarist Richard Pinhas who released a large number of albums under his own name.Influenced by the work of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, the music of Richard Pinhas and Heldon is sui generis and innovative and has in its turn greatly influenced the field of electronic rock.But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."On Le Voyageur (Eng: the traveller), the philosopher Gilles Deleuze delights by reciting with his piercing voice from Human, All Too Human by Nietzsche.Richard Pinhas is an incredibly interesting character.At the barricades in 1968 as a fervent Trotskyite, possessing a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne, a close friend of Gilles Deleuze (who appears on the Electronic Guerilla LP), Pinhas (a white man..Afro, one wonders why his back catalogue doesn't inspire more interest.New Age utopian fairytales (as in David Allen's Gong)?At once challenging and compelling, Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale is the most outrageous, unusual and impressively original of their entire discography.Electronique Guerrilla (Heldon 1973). |
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