French guitarist and electronics ace Richard Pinhas set high standards for electronic rock with the advent of Heldon back in 1974. But his voluminous discography as a solo artist and collaborator ...

Richard Pinhas cites seeing Jimi Hendrix and Cream in the late 1960s with kindling his interest in playing guitar. He remembers a Led Zeppelin show in his native France, where 30,000 people showed up ...

Richard Pinhas. Photo courtesy of Cuneiform Records. French composer, guitarist, and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas, 64, is a terribly overlooked progenitor of abstract rock music. And while he ...

The music of Metal/Crystal is loud and scary. It is not oxymoronic to call Richard Pinhas' creation the noisiest ambient record this year. The guitarist, perhaps the French equivalent to Robert Fripp, ...

Wolf Eyes performed with an altered lineup, subtracting Nate Young, while adding Aaron Dilloway and the legendary Richard Pinhas (of Heldon) known to many as the “Father of electronic music in France” ...

These days, Richard Pinhas looks back with finality and forward with contingency. He is constantly busy on his social media accounts sharing artefacts of his 50-plus years as an artist, to make sure ...

Keeping up its ever-impressive strike rate, the next release from Polish label Instant Classic sees the duo of Rafał Iwański and Jakub Ziołek, better known together as Kapital, team up with Heldon’s ...

French experimental electronic performer shows tinges of progressive rock, new age, and no wave on this compilation from the Captain Trip label, which includes solo work as well as singles from his ...

Bleeding Nonsense & Vinal Edge Records will hold the Southern leg of Richard Pinhas' 2016 US Tour. These special shows mark the first time in his 40+ year career that he has ever made it to Texas, and ...

"Ghosts Above a Warm Pond" Insect Fields FRENCH GUITARIST RICHARD Pinhas holds a PhD in philosophy, but he doesn't lecture on his new double-CD set, "Metatron." In fact, there are no words on the ...

On Tranzition (Cuneiform), Richard Pinhas’s latest solo album, he and “laptop boy” Jerome Schmidt loop, delay, and distort his brief electric guitar phrases, piling them up into gorgeous oceanic ...

Pinhas is one of those producers that was part of the developing electronic music scene in France back in the '70s, alongside the like of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Reading up on the life of ...