[NewMusicEvents] RICHARD PINHAS TRIO in SF and Oakland! - Summer 2007 North American Tour

[Ben Eiserike]

***For immediate release***

RICHARD PINHAS TRIO
Summer 2007 North American Tour
Appearing in San Francisco and Oakland!!!

Richard Pinhas Trio: Richard Pinhas (guitar/electronics), Antoine  
Paganotti (from MAGMA, drums), Jerome Schmidt (electronics)

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.

For more info:
http://cuneiformrecords.com/pinhas_north_america.html

G3 Lounge
June 27, 2007 (9 PM)
3910 Geary Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118
415-876-4080
(at the intersection of Geary & 3rd)

21 Grand
June 29, 2007 (8 PM)
416 25th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-7263
www.21grand.org
opening: Barry Cleveland Group

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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.

“…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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Media Contact: Ben Eiserike - ben at cuneiformrecords.com, 301-589-8894

www.richardpinhas.com
www.myspace.com/richardpinhas
www.cuneiformrecords.com