LEGENDARY FRENCH GUITARIST R. PINHAS

 In Tippex misc

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 unsurpassed. The ‘Father’ of electronic music in France is also recognized as a world-class guitarist whose “diabolical guitar work” (Progression) earns comparisons with Robert Fripp.

Pinhas returned to music with a vengeance in the 1990s after spending much of the 1980s away. Beginning with DWW (1992) on Cuneiform Records, his numerous releases included projects with Peter Frohmader, John Livengood, Scanner, Pascal Comelade, Etienne Jaumet, Oren Ambarchi, Lasse Marhaug, Noel Akchote, Eric Borelva, and his son, Duncan Nilsson as well as solo works. He also resumed performing.

Since the ’90s, Pinhas began developing a system of electronic processing to use in performing live solo guitar concerts. Experimenting with tape loops and infinite delays, he expanded, transformed and even transcended the “Frippertronics” technique his friend Fripp used in his work with Eno, and “developed a set of personal parameters that stand on their own legs, his looping strata giving birth to interlocking patterns, chordal waves and even harmonic movements…” [Touching Extremes].

Richard is back from a 2 week tour in the US. He will soon be touring again in Japan. He is available for shows and festivals in Europe

Web pages:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/pinhas.html
http://www.richard-pinhas.com/

Richard is available for solo shows or with his band.

Please send offers to: pascal [a] julietippex.com

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