On Sunday, June 1st, one of the major figures on the global experimental music scene – French guitarist & electronic musician Richard Pinhas – will perform at one of metropolitan Washington's most intimate venues: Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in downtown Silver Spring. The music begins at 7:30pm; admission is $10. The concert is presented by Sonic Circuits, who organize an annual Festival of Experimental Music in DC. and an on-going concert series at Pyramid Atlantic. Opening acts will include DC artists Surak & Hawkins, and TL7041; a collaborative set with Pinhas, Surak and Hawkins will follow Pinhas' solo performance.
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June 1 - Silver Spring, Maryland (Washington D.C.) Sonic Circuits Presents Richard Pinhas with Surak & Hawkins and TL0741 Pyramid Atlantic |
The June 1st Richard Pinhas show in Silver Spring is an "all-ages" show; Pinhas' fans range from 20yr olds involved in electronic and noise music to progressive rockers more than twice that age. Pinhas, known as the "father of electronic music in France," first broke new ground in the 1970s by integrating electronics with rock music; his band Heldon is recognized as one of Industrial Music's precursors. The musician/philosopher (a Ph.d from the Sorbonne, Pinhas has published books on Gilles Deleuze) has remained ceaselessly innovative, releasing dozens of recordings over the years, most of them on Silver Spring-based Cuneiform Records. Most recently, he's been collaborating with Wolf Eyes and masters of Japan's noise scene. Pinhas will arrive in Silver Spring shortly after his world premiere performance with Merzbow, Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida at FIMAV 2014 (Festival International de Musique Actuelle), Canada's premiere festival of avant garde music. After visiting Silver Spring, he'll tour the US West Coast, and then head back to Europe for scheduled festival performances in France, England, Poland and beyond. His only live appearance in the DC metro area on June 1st is not to be missed!
On May 27th, 2014, Cuneiform will release two new duo recordings by Richard Pinhas. Welcome In the Void, by Richard Pinhas and Tatsuya Yoshida, is the second chapter in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy, which began with 2013's Desolation Row, a sonic protest against the rise of neo-liberalism. His release with Oren Ambarchi, called Tikkun, can be seen as a response to (but is not part of) that trilogy. Devoted to healing our wounded world, it is dedicated to 'tikkun,' a concept in Jewish mystical writings from the Kabbalah.
We look forward to seeing you on June 1st in downtown Silver Spring, which is fast transforming into an epicenter for DC's experimental/avant music scene.
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RICHARD PINHAS & OREN AMBARCHI
TIKKUN
Release Date: 5/27/2014 - Genre: Rock / Electronic / Experimental Music
Format: CD+DVD / Digital Download
Pinhas worked in duo with Oren Ambarchi to bring the album Tikkun to life. Ambarchi, a truly international musician, was born 1969 in an Iraqi Jewish family in Australia. He began his music career in free jazz percussion before focusing on experimental guitar skills, working with to drone band Sunn O))), Burial Chamber Trio, and countless other music collaborations. For Tikkun, Pinhas and Ambarchi worked together in Paris, recording several studio sessions and two live public performances. The result is a double-disc release featuring a CD of studio recordings and a live performance DVD. Mixed in Paris and Australia, it also includes contributions by other longstanding collaborators, including Joe Talia, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Eric Borelva and Pinhas' son, Duncan Pinhas. Tikkun is a staggeringly powerful work, perhaps musically closest to Pinhas' early recordings with his band Heldon. The cover art, designed by French ilustrator Yann Legendre, is also reminiscent of Pinhas' Heldon days. Legendre also designed the cover art for Welcome in the Void, for Desolation Row, and all of Pinhas' recent albums, beginning with Metatron. Pinhas notes that he and Legendre "will work together again...of course! He is very brilliant." Pinhas' collaboration with Ambarchi is also ongoing, and the two look forward to releasing other recordings.
PROMOTIONAL TRACK //
If you'd like to share music from this release with your readers/listeners, please feel free to use the following track:
"Washington, D.C. - T4V1" [excerpt] (mp3 download) - stream: @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTubeVIDEO //
Tikkun' Album/DVD Teaser Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYRzFh58Iw
PURCHASE //
ITUNES - AMAZON - BANDCAMP - WAYSIDE MUSIC
ARTIST SITES //
www.richard-pinhas.com - www.orenambarchi.com
RICHARD PINHAS & YOSHIDA TATSUYA
WELCOME IN THE VOID
Release Date: 5/27/2014 - Genre: Rock / Electronic / Experimental Music
Format: CD / Digital Download
Welcome In The Void is the second album in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy, concerned with mankind's ideological and physical devolution at the hands of our modern socio-politcal world and technology. For the past several years, Pinhas the musician/philosopher has given thought to, in his words, the "Devolution of mankind, civilization, Capitalism's devolution, and mainly devolution of [human/biolgical] faculties related to the rise of machines". He describes Welcome in the Void as "a kind of journey, not more into the being but into the Void - the nothingness that is now the "center" or the absence-of-center of our societies." The first album in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy was 2013's Desolation Row, a sonic protest against the rise of neoliberalism, the global economic cricis and rising social unrest.
PROMOTIONAL TRACK //
If you'd like to share music from this release with your readers/listeners, please feel free to use the following track:
"Part One - Intro" (mp3 download) - stream: @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTubePURCHASE //
ITUNES - AMAZON - BANDCAMP - WAYSIDE MUSIC
ARTIST SITES //
www.richard-pinhas.com - www.magaibutsu.com
Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada - FIMAV (Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville - World Premiere Performance: Richard Pinhas with Japanese noise masters Keiji Haino, Merzbow, and Tatsuya Yoshida
May 23, 24
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA - THE REFRAIN: ELECTRONIC MUSIC AFTER PINHAS & DELEUZE (WITH RICHARD PINHAS) - Richard Pinhas will guest lecture at The Global Center for Advanced Studies, find more information here.
May 29
Oakland, California, USA - White Horse Bar - Richard Pinhas Band (Richard Pinhas, William Winant, Noel V. Harmonson and Utrillo Kushner) with Pod Blotz
May 30
San Francisco, California, USA - Steven Wolf Fine Arts - Richard Pinhas (solo) with Matt Baldwin (solo)
June 1
Silver Spring, Maryland (Washington D.C.) - Sonic Circuits Presents - Pyramid Atlantic, 8230 Georgia Avenue [DC Metro-Red Line-Silver Spring] - Richard Pinhas (solo) with Surak & Hawkins and TL0741
June 7
St. Etienne, France - Festival des Musiques Innovatrices 2014 - Musée de la Mine St. Etienne
July 7
Marseille, France - Festival MIMI 2014- Richard Pinhas & Etienne JAUMET - Hôpital Caroline - Iles du Frioul - Gorlickie Cultural Centre, Beskid Niski, in Gorlice
July 19
Gorlice, Poland - Ambient Festival
July 30
London, England - Corsica Studio - 4/5 Elephant Road
August 31
London, England - Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Raw Power - The Dome Tufnell Park, London - Richard Pinhas (solo) with Acid Mother's Temple, Akdk, & dozens more...
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