Richard Pinhas - Tranzition

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Richard Pinhas - Tranzition

Artist:	Richard Pinhas
Title:	Tranzition
Label:	Cuneiform Rune 186
Length(s):	62 minutes
Year(s) of release:	2004
Month of review:	[05/2004]

Line up

Richard Pinhas - guitar, electronics
Philippe Simon - violin
Antoine Paganotti - drums
Jerome Schmidt - laptop boy

Tracks

1)	Dextro	10.50
2)	Moumoune Girl (a Song For)	10.33
3)	Tranzition	9.37
4)	Aboulafia Blues	6.48
5)	Metatron (an Introduction To)	24.25

The samples of Tranzition occur here by kind permission of Cuneiform Records.

Summary

The music

Thirty years ago Pinhas implied himself to be an electronic guerilla. What is he now? The man's admiration for Robert Fripp is still quite apparent in his music, frippertronics are most definitely the main dish, supported by the phased synths we have heard in early work.

So, what else is there to be found? Opener Dextro has percussion a lot more persistent than your basic drum rhythm, whilst Moumoune Girl has a lot of spoken fragments in front, joined by the percussion. This percussion was not present on more recent work by Pinhas.

Tranzition on the one hand reminds a bit of Vangelis, or Schulze even, as it starts. As it progresses, though, the guitar loops, now less Frippian, and percussion take over.

Closer Metatron is a more traditional Pinhas solo track: stripped of the percussion this is purely guitar loop.

Conclusion

If you like the sound of one Pinhas album, you will probably like them all. This album does by no means go against that law. The use of percussion in this album makes it a bit different and adds just a little flavour. The music retains its mesmerizing, almost hypnotic, quality, untouched by the rhythm. Once again pretty nice.