Heldon

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Heldon is a French electronic rock band created in 1974. The name of the band was taken from the 1972 novel The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad.

Like its predecessor Schizo, it is above all the group of guitarist Richard Pinhas who released a large number of albums under his own name.

He has worked with numerous collaborators among which musicians of the band Magma as well as philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze (of whom he was a student) and writers such as Norman Spinrad and Maurice Dantec (the Schizotrope project).

Influenced by the work of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, the music of Richard Pinhas and Heldon is sui generis and innovative and has in its turn greatly influenced the field of electronic rock.

The first releases under the moniker Schizo and later Heldon were entirely self produced and self distributed.

Discography of Richard Pinhas and Heldon

• Schizo : And The Little Girl/Paraphrénia Praecox (197?) (7")
• Schizo : Le Voyageur/Torcol (1972) (7")
• Heldon : Electronique Guérilla (1974)
• Heldon : Allez Teia (1974)
• Heldon : It's Always Rock and Roll (1975)
• Heldon : Soutien à la RAF (7") (1975)
• Heldon : Agneta Nilsson (1976)
• Heldon : Perspective 1 bis complément/Perspective 4 bis (1976) (7")
• Heldon : Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale (1976)
• Richard Pinhas : Rhizosphère (1977)
• T.H.X. : Telstar / Rhizosphère Suite (1978) (7")
• Richard Dunn : Séquences/Modulations (1978) (7")
• Richard Pinhas : Chronolyse (1978)
• Heldon : Interface (1977)
• Heldon : Stand By (1979)
• Richard Pinhas : Iceland (1980)
• Richard Pinhas : East West (1980)
• Richard Pinhas : L'Ethique (1982)
• Richard Pinhas Heldon : Perspective (1983)
• Richard Pinhas : DWW (1992)
• Richard Pinhas & John Livengood : Cyborg Sally (1994)
• Richard Pinhas & John Livengood : Single (1996)
• Richard Pinhas : De l'Un et du Multiple (1997)
• Schizotrope : Le Plan (1999)
• Richard Pinhas & Peter Frohmader: Fossil Culture (1999)
• Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas : Oblique Sessions II (1999)
• Schizotrope : The Life And Death Of Marie Zorn - North American Tour 1999 (2000)
• Schizotrope : III Le Pli (2001)
• Heldon : Only Chaos is Real (2001)
• Richard Pinhas : Event and Repetitions (2003))
• Richard Pinhas : Tranzition (2004)
• Richard Pinhas : Metatron (2006, 2CDs)
• Richard Pinhas & Merzbow : Keio Line (2008, 2CDs)

The majority of recordings of Richard Pinhas and Heldon were pressed on CD by French label Spalax and American label Cuneiform Records, featuring numerous bonus tracks.

External links

• Official Richard Pinhas site
• Official site, not updated
• Richard Pinhas/Heldon chez Cuneiform Records
• Link to AllMusic