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Richard Pinhas

French composer, guitarist and synthesist (born in 1951). He studied philosophy with Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard among others. In 1974 he founded the electronic rock band Heldon. Owner of Heldon Studio.

French composer, guitarist and synthesist (born in 1951). He studied philosophy with Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard among others. In 1974 he founded the electronic rock band Heldon. Owner of Heldon Studio.

Member of: Heldon, Video Liszt
Electronique Guerilla (Heldon I)
50th Anniversary Edition: hand numbered, limited edition blue vinyl, 500 copies available. Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's debut album Electronique Guerilla, originally released on Disjuncta in 1974. In 1973, 22-year old Richard Pinhas was wel…
Allez-Teia (Heldon II)
*2023 stock* Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's second album Allez-Teia, originally released on Disjuncta in 1975. Before making his own music in the early '70s, Richard Pinhas was a King Crimson fan. The British group has buzzed in Pinhas's mind…
Reverse
*2023 stock* "Save for a brief hiatus in the ’80s when he became disillusioned with music, guitarist Richard Pinhas has spent the last five decades making records, both solo and with many groups including ’70s French space-rock innovators Heldon. Lat…
Antelast
Sporting one of the coolest record sleeves of all-time, Richard Pinhas’ latest offering is essential. His continual exploration of interior landscapes seem to have caused them to expand to enormous proportions, as if relentlessly probing such terrain…
Live In U.S.A.
It is a Richard Pinhas solo album recorded in Detroit and in Pittsburgh, USA- halas both tracks are not complete because time allowed by the Vinyles sides. All is direct. Richard plays on a original Roland guitar synth (years circa 1981) with FX, Mai…
Victoriaville Mai 2011
*2022 stock* A collaboration of the legendary Richard Pinhas (of Heldon fame) and Japanese noise artist Merzbow would be worthy of note. Add in Wolf Eyes, the trio of Mike Connelly, John Olson, and Nathan Young, and you have the potential for a truly…
Le Cut-Up Populaire
Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve; edition of 600 (numbered). Pascal Comelade has been working for three years to achieve his brand-new album. Not only it features all of his musical obsessions and trademarks, some long-time partners and friends suc…
The Tears of Nietszche
Following their recent Difference and Repetition, A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze 2LP/CD this limited 7'' edition features The Tears of Nietszche on side A with Richard Pinhas as guest musician and Vecteur d'abolition on side B with the voice o…
Sources (LP)
Guitar and electronics. A collaboration between Richard Pinhas and his son Duncan Pinhas, to celebrate Richard 50 year career and his 70th birthday Richard Pinhas, the founder of '70s legends "Heldon ", is one of France's best known experimental musi…
Quentin Compson (LP)
* produced and mixed by Stephen O'Malley * Richard Pinhas, the founder of 70s legends Heldon, is one of France's best known experimental musicians and is a key figure in the development of rock music fusing with electronic music. Stephen O'Malley is …
Le Plan de Paris
Tip. Edition of 500. Pascal Comelade and Richard Pinhas met in Paris in 1974, when Pinhas was beginning to go on stage with his group Heldon. With Heldon and, afterwards, solo, Pinhas became the pioneer and accelerator of electronic music in France, …
Alturas
When Acid Mothers Temple and Richard Pinhas visited Lima for the first time, in November 2017, to participate in the experimental music festival "Integraciones", Luis Alvarado, the director of Buh Records and curator of the festival, summoned the Jap…
De l\'Un et du Multiple
Richard Pinhas's De l'un et du Multiple, originally released in 1996. Richard Pinhas, the founder of '70s legends Heldon, is one of France's best known experimental musicians and is a key figure in development of rock music fusing with electronic mus…
Hakata Shibuya - Live In Japan 2014
Collaboration between Richard Pinhas and Tatsuya Yoshida. Richard Pinhas, founder of '70s legends Heldon, is one of France's best known experimental musicians. He is a key figure in development of rock music processing with electronic music. Yoshida …
Live At Tusk Festival
* Edition of 500 * French psych-experimental-rock genius Richard Pinhas in collaboration with Sax Ruins drummer, Tatsuya Yoshida, and saxophonist, Ryoko Ono. Recorded live at Tusk Festival, at Gateshead Old Town Hall, on October 10, 2015. Richard Pin…
Live London 1982 - The Venue
**In process of stocking** The last show by this particular "Richard Pinhas Heldon" line up, in London in 1982 , featuring among others Magma members (Patrick Gauthier, Bernard Paganotti, Clement Bailly) as well as Jean-Philippe Goude ( Weidorje ). T…
The Koln ConZert Live 2008
**In process of stocking** Recorded live at the Stadtgarten -2008. Composed and played by Merzbow and Richard Pinhas. In 2008, guitarist and rock electronics innovator Richard Pinhas performed in Koln a duo concert with notorious 'noise' artist Merzb…
Stand By
LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's seventh and final album of the 1970s Stand By, originally released in 1979. After the release of Stand By, Richard Pinhas focused on solo LPs before quitting music for around a decade. "It was the en…
6 - Interface
LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's 6 - Interface, originally released in 1977. A brilliant moment occurs right at the end of Heldon's sixth album, Interface. The album's final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a r…
Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale
LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale, originally released in 1976. Heldon's Richard Pinhas has never been shy of pinpointing his influences while, at the same time, making music that is noticeably disti…
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