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SUNDAYJULY 1st @ Rotture 9pm
$6
RICHARD PINHAS TRIO (featuring members of Heldon and Magma)
http://www.myspace.com/richardpinhas
WHITE RAINBOW
http://www.myspace.com/whiterainbowwhiterainbow
MOME RATHS
http://www.myspace.com/momepalace
SOUP PURSE
RENEGADE
http://www.myspace.com/renegaderun
Ceaselessly innovative in a career spanning more than 30 years, Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A composer, world-class guitarist and electronics innovator, he is a key figure in the international development of electronic rock music. His band Heldon fused electronics, "diabolical guitar work" and rock to create a pioneering, aggressive music that was a precursor to industrial music and techno. Throughout his career, Pinhas has created music that is both visceral and visionary: aggressive, emotional and seductively hypnotic, his music intertwines philosophical, literary and musical theories at its core. Pinhas' work over the past decade, featuring his "Metatronic" system of electronically treated solo guitar compositions, is as radically innovative as anything in his early career. Comparable to the work of Fripp, Eno and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pinhas' new guitar / electronics / spoken word works shine on his latest album, Metatron, a landmark work in his career, where music, meaning, word, sound and process find full unity.
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"Pinhas's solo work has often been conducted with an electric guitar and
the kind of infinite tape delay system associated with Robert Fripp and his
collaborations with Brian Eno… Though Pinhas adopts the same, pure fuzzed
tone and a liking for big slides up and down the fretboard, closer listening
reveals a more personal aesthetic at work. He generates billowing clouds of
processed guitar which shift through different tonal centres, sometimes
ambiguously, sometimes gently, sometimes suddenly."
- Peter Marsh, BBCi,
www.bbc.co.uk
"Richard Pinhas is a relentless sonic experimentalist, and his latest solo
effort finds him processing soothing guitar sounds into understated,
undulating environments. ...engaging and genuinely enthralling."
- Jeff
Berkwits, SciFi, Feb. 2003
"Pinhas is a musical innovator, whose works speak directly to the questions
of how to integrate Electronic Music with the energy and rhythmic nature of
"Rock" music."
- Doug Walker, Aural Innovations, #21 Oct. 2002
"...he demonstrates that he is capable of constructing some of the most
formidable but exhilarating sonic edifices ever heard by mortal ears. 4
stars."
-Bill Tilland, All Music Guide, www.allmusic.com
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We have a show coming up at the beginning of March if you want to see what we're up to:
3/01/2007
Towne Lounge
714 SW 20th Pl.
Portland, Oregon 97205
w/ Rootvilla, LightWhite
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