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Richard Pinhas/Barry Cleveland at Duende
Courtesy of Barry Cleveland | Posted on August 31, 2013
When
Thu, September 19, 2013
9:00 am
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Musicians
Barry Cleveland
guitar, electricAbout
RICHARD PINHAS
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. He began experimenting with looping during the '90s, and since then has developed a unique vocabulary that includes interlocking patterns, chordal waves, and harmonic movements....