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01. HELDON - Zind
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02. HELDON - Back To Heldon
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03. HELDON - Northernland Lady
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04. HELDON - Ouais, Marchais, Mieux Qu'en 68
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05. HELDON - Circulus Vitiosus
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06. HELDON - Ballade Pour Puig Antich, Révolutionnaire Assasasiné En Espagne
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ARTIST
HELDON
TITLE
Electronique Guerilla (Heldon I)
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 280CD
BB 280CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/23/2018
Bureau B present a reissue of
Heldon
's debut album
Electronique Guerilla
, originally released on Disjuncta in 1974. In 1973, 22-year old
Richard Pinhas
was well on his way to becoming a full-time philosopher. He had almost finished his PhD and begun teaching at the University of Paris. But he also had a hobby: writing music and recording it himself. When he submitted a few tracks to British label E.G. (home of
King Crimson
and
Roxy Music
), the imprint was interested, but Pinhas was frustrated to find out he'd have to wait a year for them to release anything. So Pinhas put out his first album on his own label, Disjuncta. He called the project Heldon (from a location in
Norman Spinrad
's 1972 sci-fi novel
The Iron Dream
). It might have been the first self-released rock record in France. "Or at least the first one that worked," says Pinhas. "It was like a musical and political event in France. Musical because there were few artists using synthesizers here, or even in the world. And political because we tried to say that the big companies make everything bad and their records are too expensive." Most of
Electronique Guerilla
was made by Pinhas alone, but "Ouais, Marchais, Mieux Qu'en 68" featured five collaborators, including one of his mentors,
Gilles Deleuze
. Over winding guitars and pointed percussion, the French philosopher reads lyrics taken from
Friedrich Nietzsche
's "The Voyager and His Shadow" (1880). Despite being self-released -- with Pinhas himself delivering some stock directly to record stores --
Electronique Guerilla
quickly sold over 19,000 copies. That convinced Pinhas he should make and release more music by himself -- but he would have little time for philosophy. "I had to make a decision, because at that point in France, you couldn't do two jobs," he remembers. "So I made this very bad choice to be a rock 'n' roll musician." It's a choice he's stuck to for four decades, and the fiery
Electronique Guerilla
provided a potent spark. 2018 remaster by
Willem Makkee
.
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