Browse by Artist: PINHAS AND MERZBOW, RICHARD

Artist:	PINHAS AND MERZBOW, RICHARD
Title:	Keio Line
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 278/79CD

"Richard Pinhas has been at the forefront of new rock music in France since the early 1970s, when he founded the band Heldon. Heldon was one of the first bands to meld rock music and electronics, releasing a number of 'classic' albums during the 1970s. He has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock music. His stature in France is roughly analogous to that of Tangerine Dream in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. Active since 1979, Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, is considered the originator of Japanese noise music, a very influential and hip movement in sound. He has recorded and released nearly 100 CDs. Richard and Merzbow are both among the best-known figures in electronic rock music today. Despite coming from very different musical backgrounds, they had long expressed admiration for each other's work and this collaborative meeting, recorded over two days in Tokyo while Richard was on his second tour of Japan was as inevitable as it is musically surprising and satisfying! On their first-ever work together, two of the world's leaders of underground, contemporary, electronic rock music collaborate on a release that is violent, soothing, hypnotic, noisy and trance inducing. Keio Line is two full length CDs of radical music that sells at a radically low price!"

Artist:	PINHAS AND MERZBOW, RICHARD
Title:	Keio Line
Label:	DIRTER PROMOTIONS (UK)
Format:	3LP
Price:	$38.50
Catalog #:	DPROM 065LP

Deluxe vinyl version of Keio Line (the same content also to be issued on double CD by Cuneiform); the complete recording of an incredible collaboration that sweeps across the generations of electronic music. Richard Pinhas is internationally recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians: the "father" of French electronic music. He was the founder of seminal space-rock band Heldon, a band whose violent fusion of electronics and guitar in the '70s rivalled the German electronic school. As a guitar player, he has been compared to Robert Fripp. Cited as an influence by many electronic musicians, Pinhas has helped to define the space music genre. Since founding Heldon in 1974, Pinhas has released over 15 albums, had involvement in dozens more and shaped the way we listen to music today. Masami Akita aka Merzbow is the forerunner of Japanese electronic music, and for the last 20 years plus, has been at the top of his game ploughing more and more extreme sonic territories. This release, recorded in Tokyo in October 2007, will surprise a lot of people in its sheer beauty. This is a collaboration that works in the true sense of the word, with each artist complimenting the other over six long, sprawling tracks, each occupying the whole of each side. The set comes housed in a gloss-laminated sleeve and is limited to just 1000 copies.

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