Cuneiform
2002
Event And Repetitions
About This Album
Pinhas' playing, on both guitar and synthesizers, has always had a strange reserve to it, even when he was leader of the powerful, riff-oriented prog rock band Heldon in the mid- to late '70s. He never comfortably assumed the mantle of a rock god, even with his natural advantage of good looks and charisma. Instead, throughout his career he has always seemed more interested in science fiction, electronic music technology, and abstruse philosophical discourse than any kind of popular acclaim. (Pre-Heldon, Pinhas even taught philosophy for a time at the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris.) After Heldon disbanded, Pinhas made a number of solo recordings in the 1980s and early '90s that were largely hit and miss mixtures of prog rock, misguided future pop, electronic minimalism, and a kind of primitive techno. Guitarist Robert Fripp was one of Pinhas' early heroes and a sporadic but constant thread in Pinhas' music has been his experimentation with guitar feedback, loops, and effects boxes, even in the early days of Heldon, as he tried to perfect his own version of Frippertronics. Well, it has been a long time coming, but Event and Repetitions may well signal the full realization of Pinhas' longtime vision.
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