Jazz Articles about Richard Pinhas

Richard Pinhas - Barry Cleveland: Mu

by Glenn Astarita
December 30, 2016

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 surges onward with two concurrent 2016 releases for Cuneiform Records: Process and Reality with drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and noise electronics whiz Masami Akita aka Merzbow, and this quartet date Mu, co-led with guitarist, technologist, Barry Cleveland. The frontline reaps the benefits of having bass legend Michael Manring ...

Richard Pinhas - Merzbow: Rhizome [CD + DVD]

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 11, 2011

Dopo Keio Line, il duo del francese Richard Pinhas e del musicista giapponese Merzbow pubblica questo CD/DVD dal titolo Rhizome. Esatttamente come nel precedente episodio, due elementi sonori si incontrato e scontrano, la chitarra elettrica e il laptop, con una leggera prevalenza in termini di volume e di sostanza da parte dei suoni prodotti dal computer. Questa volta, un DVD ci permette di notare (la già immaginata) austera postura di Merzbow nel controllare con leggeri movimenti delle braccia il flusso ...

Richard Pinhas: Metal/Crystal

by Glenn Astarita
July 22, 2011

Think of sheaths of titanium splintering across a room at the speed of light, and a moveable wall of sound that poses a daunting proposition. These are components that signal the vivid imagery, supplied by pioneering French progressive space-rock guitarist and synthesist Richard Pinhas on a set that is based on mental disorder symptoms. Along with guests and revered Japanese noise-shaping artist and author Merzbow (Masami Akita), the program casts a semi-structured outline, infiltrated by variable electrical impulses amid an ...

Richard Pinhas: Metal/Crystal

by Mark Corroto
November 14, 2010

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, has been making music for 30 years, first with the electronic rock band Heldon, then as a solo act, extending ambient music with his guitar processing techniques. Of late he has been experimenting with the international noise scene, releasing Keio Line (Cuneiform, 2008) with Masami Akita ...

Richard Pinhas - Merzbow: Keio Line

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 15, 2009

Ascoltando le lunghe tracce di questo doppio album la vostra stanza dovrebbe cambiare fisionomia. Il senso di questa musica è infatti lo stesso della musique d'ameublement, la musica d'arredamento così come teorizzata da Erik Satie. Sembra infatti non richiesta all'ascoltatore una particolare attenzione per gli sviluppi delle composizioni, non c'è un filo logico da seguire, né avvenimento sonoro che sia in grado di creare o mutare narrazione, direzione. Tuttavia i due autori ci indicano attraverso i titoli dei brani alcune ...

Richard Pinhas / Merzbow: Keio Line

by Nic Jones
March 4, 2009

Both guitarist Richard Pinhas and musician/artist Merzbow (Masami Akita) have been working at their craft since the '70s, and this meeting of minds is in essence a microcosm of their work. As pioneers in the field of noise as music they've produced work that hasn't been co-opted by a broadening mainstream and that in itself perhaps says something of the societies of which that mainstream is representative.

Summit meeting as this may be then, the results are often as tranquil ...

Richard Pinhas: Metatron

by John Kelman
January 2, 2007

Amongst the multitude of guitarists developing individual voices through recognizable guitar sounds exists a smaller group of players who view the instrument as means to a different end. King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp, one of the first to explore transforming the sound of a guitar beyond recognition, has been a major influence on more than one generation of guitarists with his tape looping Frippertronics and more recent Soundscapes. While French guitarist Richard Pinhas uses Fripp as a reference point, he ...