Richard Pinhas is one of the most important French electronic space rock musicians. Following five albums with HELDON, his band, he released solo records from 1977 on.
His transition to “solo” material gave the guitarist and synthesist an opportunity to work on material that was a little lighter and less constrained. “Chronolyse” was his second solo album. Following the previous year’s Rhizosphere, 1978’s Chronolyse was actually the first to be completed having been recorded two years prior.
On four of its five tracks, Rhizosphere presents just the 25-year-old Pinhas and his synth alone together, a melding of man and machine that gradually becomes an expansive, outward-bound
journey. Pinhas’ simple approach spawned a galaxy of diverse sounds and ideas. Each track on
Rhizosphere inhabits its own mini-universe sonically and emotionally. The range of moods
traversed is stunning.
Dedicated “to all S.F. freaks”, the LP takes its name from a work by the science fiction writer Michel Jeury. The individual track titles, as any sci-fi fan will clock, are inspired by the classic Frank
Herbert novel Dune. This led some listeners to assume that Chronolyse was some kind of scrupulous concept album based around Herbert’s invented universe of interstellar feudal houses and giant sandworms. That’s not quite accurate. While Pinhas remains a proud sci-fi freak, he’s quick to distance the LP’s titles from the music contained therein. “I always name the titles of the tracks and albums when everything is finished,” he says. “So there is no relationship between them and what is inside.”
The younger Pinhas had been inspired by guitar heroes such as Hendrix and Clapton. It was King Crimson’s Robert Fripp who had prime impact on Heldon’s mix of spiralling space....... more
Richard Pinhas is one of the most important French electronic space rock musicians. Following five albums with HELDON, his band, he released solo records from 1977 on.
His transition to “solo” material gave the guitarist and synthesist an opportunity to work on material that was a little lighter and less constrained. “Chronolyse” was his second solo album. Following the previous year’s Rhizosphere, 1978’s Chronolyse was actually the first to be completed having been recorded two years prior.
On four of its five tracks, Rhizosphere presents just the 25-year-old Pinhas and his synth alone together, a melding of man and machine that gradually becomes an expansive, outward-bound
journey. Pinhas’ simple approach spawned a galaxy of diverse sounds and ideas. Each track on
Rhizosphere inhabits its own mini-universe sonically and emotionally. The range of moods
traversed is stunning.
Dedicated “to all S.F. freaks”, the LP takes its name from a work by the science fiction writer Michel Jeury. The individual track titles, as any sci-fi fan will clock, are inspired by the classic Frank
Herbert novel Dune. This led some listeners to assume that Chronolyse was some kind of scrupulous concept album based around Herbert’s invented universe of interstellar feudal houses and giant sandworms. That’s not quite accurate. While Pinhas remains a proud sci-fi freak, he’s quick to distance the LP’s titles from the music contained therein. “I always name the titles of the tracks and albums when everything is finished,” he says. “So there is no relationship between them and what is inside.”
The younger Pinhas had been inspired by guitar heroes such as Hendrix and Clapton. It was King Crimson’s Robert Fripp who had prime impact on Heldon’s mix of spiralling space....... more
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