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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldon
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldon
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pinhas
Such a crap.
mrsaresu 4 days ago
When i was young i was a little fan of curious punk and wave bands like foetus and plan b,fehlfarben and einstuerzende neubauten,and this heldon lp is not the usual sound its more modern industrialwave-like,as an old fan of the dead kennedys i admit this track is not worse,i like it?Neil Young had also an album,that was differing some fans from the other,his song computerage was no hit in 1979,80,but today some say its a masterwork of pioneering a new musicdirection!
Papa7851 1 week ago