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First-Ever Vinyl Reissue of 1978's Chronolyse out on Cuneiform October 16, 2015 Experimental Rock Icon Richard Pinhas Tours England & France in Fall/Winter 2015, Performing Two Nites at England's Famed Tusk Festival and at Venues in London, Paris & Toulouse with Fellow Sonic Innovators Stephen O'Malley, Yoshida Tatsuya, Ono Ryoko & Arthur Narcy TOUR DATES / CHRONOLYSE REISSUE / CUNEIFORM ALBUMS / PINHAS BIO *****  Upcoming Richard Pinhas Tour Dates Fall/Winter 2015 Paris, France – Friday, October 9, 2015 Richard Pinhas & Pascal Comelade (mini-set one) and Energie Fantome (set one) and Richard Pinhas & Sax Ruins (Yoshida Tatsuya & Ono Ryoko) (set two) and Richard Pinhas & Sax Ruins & Patrick Gauthier (encore) Sets at 8:00 pm/ 20:00 hr Le Triton 11 Bis Rue du Coq French Lilas (Les), France, 93260 http://www.letriton.com/ € 20 Normal/ €15 Reduced/ €12 Member/ €8 Junior Newcastle, UK – Saturday, October 10, 2015 Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya & Ono Ryoko Set Times: 6:00 pm onwards Tusk Festival: Day One Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 2NP, United Kingdom http://tuskfestival.com/artists/ €55 Full Weekend Pass/ €20 day pass Newcastle, UK – Sunday, October 11, 2015 Richard Pinhas & Stephen O'Malley Set Times: 6:00 pm onwards Tusk Festival: Day Two Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 2NP, United Kingdom http://tuskfestival.com/artists/ €55 Full Weekend Pass/ €20 day pass London, UK – Monday, October 12, 2015 Richard Pinhas & Sax Ruins (Yoshida Tatsuya & Ono Ryoko) Set time: 7:30 pm presented by Baba Yaga's Hut Corsica Studios 4/5 Elephant Rd, London SE17 1LB, United Kingdom http://www.corsicastudios.com/ £11 Advance Poitiers, France – Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Richard Pinhas & Sax Ruins (Yoshida Tatsuya & Ono Ryoko) Set Time: 9:00 pm/ 21:00 Planetarium, Espace Mendés France 1 Rue de la Cathédrale, Poitiers, France 86038 http://emf.fr/ PT: € 6; TR: € 3.50 Toulouse, France - Saturday, December 17, 2015 
To book Richard in Europe, please contact Julie Tippex: http://julietippex.com/ To book Richard in Japan/USA, please contact Richard via the contact section: http://www.richard-pinhas.com/contact.php Richard Pinhas is currently planning a USA tour for Spring/Summer 2016. Please contact him regarding availability. For press or radio interviews while on tour, album inquiries or other information, please contact Cuneiform Records Publicity & Promotion Joyce: joyce@cuneiformrecords.com  [WATCH: Announcment Video for Pinhas, Tatsuya, Ryoko - 2015 tour] ***** First-Ever Vinyl Reissue of Richard Pinhas' Chronolyse Street date: October 16, 2015  RICHARD PINHAS CHRONOLYSE [Vinyl LP Reissue]  STREAM/SHARE: "Sur Le Theme De Bene Gesserit VII"stream: @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube Cat. #: Rune 30, Format: CD / LP / DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Genre: Rock / Electronic Music / Experimental Release Date: October 16, 2015 Back in 1974, Pinhas received his PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he had studied with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and written his dissertation, “Science-Fiction, Inconscient et Autres Machins”, on the intersections of time, time manipulation, science fiction and analogue electronic music. That same year he founded Heldon. a band that fused his searing guitar with experimental electronics to revolutionize rock music in France. By 1976 Heldon had released several albums on Pinhas’ Disjuncta label (one of France’s first independent labels), and began working on a new album, Interface. Simultaneous with the Interface sessions, Pinhas immersed himself in a highly personal and heartfelt solo project. He had been deeply affected by Frank Herbert’s Dune novels and the complete universe that they contained, and wanted to dedicate a full album to Dune. Acquiring a Moog P3 and a new Polymoog to accompany two Revox A700s he had installed in his home Heldon Studio, Pinhas now had the perfect analogue electronic arsenal to weave his own sonic and philosophical universe in response to Dune’s.  [Richard Pinhas]
Between January and June 1976, he recorded his Dune tribute on Moog and Polymoog direct to tape; he recalls that the music flowed to him easily, “like a dream”. He used his “Big MOOG P3” and the two Revox (one for recording, one for a delay) to record side A of the album, which included 7 tracks dedicated to “Variations Sur Le Theme des Bene Gesserit” and one track named after “Duncan Idaho”. For side B, he used his Polymoog and the two Revox to record a “Tronix” base for a single, lengthy track, “Paul Atreïdes”. Originally, he had thought to do an all-Moog album. But instead, he went into the Davout Studio with his guitar and his Heldon colleagues, Didier Batard (drums) and François Auger (bass) to record their instruments over the Polymoog track. All the track names derived from Dune. "Bene Gesserit" is a name of the race of the woman who has ESP. "Duncan Idaho" is a military aide of the clan of Atreides; the name also was similar to that of one of Richard’s sons, Duncan, who was then a little more than one year old. "Paul Atreides" is a boy who corresponds to the hero of the story. But Pinhas did not want his album to be a too “commercial” Dune tribute, and thus chose his album’s name, Chronolyse, from a work by French science fiction novelist, Michel Jeury, whose writings dealt with time manipulations.
Chronolyse came out on vinyl in 1978, released by Cobra only in France. Although it was his first solo recording, it was his second solo album release, as Rhizosphere had come out the year before. As completed, it included one side of solo, live Moog synthesizer pieces, notable for their wide, stereo field and unique sound - a product of the weeks he spent setting up and programming the sounds on his huge Moog P3 modular synthesizer. The other side was a lengthy, stormy, drone-filled, epi of mellotrons (Polymoog), electronics, guitar, bass and drums by his Heldon colleagues. In Chronolyse, Pinhas not only explored new synthesizer technologies, new sonics and materials, but also the philosophical concepts that he held dearest, such as timeless repetition and the superimposition of events. In Chronolyse, Pinhas wove his separate worlds of music, philosophy, science fiction and literature, physical reality and family life into a single sonic and philosophical universe. Steve Feigenbaum, Cuneiform’s founder and CEO, had long admired Pinhas’ work; he calls Chronolyse “absolutely one of Richard’s very finest works: half live Moog electronics that make fantastic use of stereo imaging and mix aggression with the repetitiveness of Phillip Glass or Terry Riley, and half with Heldon in a 30' King Crimson-ish stormy drone-epic of mellotrons, electronics, guitar, bass, & drums.” 25 years ago, after months of communicating across the Atlantic, he took the train from Washington DC, Pinhas flew from Paris, and the two met in person in New York City to discuss a collaboration. Cuneiform and Pinhas signed a contract for Cuneiform to reissue on CD and distribute internationally all of Pinhas early solo and Heldon recordings, originally released on LP in France. They decided to reissue the back catalogue in groups of two. The first Cuneiform CD reissues, Chronolyse and East/West, came out in 1991 with a Cuneiform press release written by NYC-based science fiction novelist Norman Spinrad. Now, Cuneiform is doing the first-ever vinyl reissue of Chronolyse, 35 years after it last appeared in that medium.  [The first-ever vinyl reissue of this classic, which has been unavailable on vinyl for 35 years]  ************ Recent Recordings by Richard Pinhas on Cuneiform Records
 Richard Pinhas Desolation Row STREAM "Circle" from Desolation RowSoundCloud / Bandcamp / YouTube Purchase @ AMAZON - ITUNES - BANDCAMP - WAYSIDE MUSIC ************
Cuneiform Records is honored to have released and/or reissued the complete
RICHARD PINHAS and HELDON catalogs as well as collaborative albums by PINHAS/MERZBOW, PINHAS/AMBARCHI and PINHAS/TATSUYA. For more information on any of these titles and more, click on any cover below. w:
Richard Pinhas is still a force in world music today… his music has the emotive depth that most other electronauts hardly begin to grapple with. Add to this its other attributes: alien atmospheres, futuristic imagery, feelings of the mystery of technology, precise clinical production, belief in creative and political revolution, an obscure intellectual base and references to science fiction…then there is a musical force that has little or no rival."
– Audion In the 1990s, Cuneiform began working with Pinhas to reissue his Heldon and early solo recordings. The label also began releasing Pinhas' new recordings, as Pinhas continued to explore and expand rock's sonic edge in multi-layered instrumental works infused with influences from sci-fi and philosophy. Pinhas' subsequent work, featuring his "Metatronic" system of electronically treated solo guitar compositions, was as radically innovative as anything in his early career. Incorporating influences from and sharing aesthetics with the work of Fripp, Eno and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pinhas' guitar / electronics / spoken word works have appealed to longstanding fans while also attracting new admirers. In the 21st century, Pinhas' uncompromising sonic quest has led him to joined forces with some of Japan's top noise artists, including Merzbow (Masami Akita), Yoshida Tatsuya, and Keiji Heino, as well as such other global sound explorers as Wolf Eyes and Oren Ambarchi. In recent years, in an astonishing creative surge, he has released numerous new solo and duo/collaborative instrumental works recordings on Cuneiform that fuse his guitar work variously with electronics, noise, other guitar work and/or drums, and continue to expand the parameters of rock. Pinhas new releases, inspired by 21st century political and philosophical concerns, are astoundingly powerful and sophisticated musical works that rival those from his Heldon days. Pinhas is also an active live performer. In recent years, he's toured throughout Europe, in Japan, and in North America. Both solo and in various groupings, he's performed as headliner for festivals of avant-garde and electronic music worldwide. For more information about Richard Pinhas, see: Richard Pinhas @ CuneiformRecords.com (recordings & activities on Cuneiform) http://www.richard-pinhas.com/ (official website) PRESS CONTACT For press or radio interviews, album inquiries or other information: Cuneiform Records Publicity & Promotion Joyce: joyce@cuneiformrecords.com (Director of Publicity & Promotion) tel. 301-589-8894 P.O. Box 8427 Silver Spring, MD 20907-842 [Washington, D.C.] www.cuneiformrecords.com www.twitter.com/cuneiformrecord www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords www.soundcloud.com/cuneiformrecords www.youtube.com/CuneiformRecords
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