Winter Music & Le Plan vinyl now available for ordering!

25 July 2024

OtherSide, the label started by friend of Richard [and Djam Karet member] Chuck Oken Jr and Richard's webmaster Mike Ostrich, are thrilled to announce that their second set of releases are available to order right this very minute - yes, we mean now! - with a release date of August 2nd. These two releases are, for the moment, on vinyl only, but will be on your local streaming platform sometime in September. Both LPs feature legendary French guitarist Richard Pinhas of the band Heldon.

Djam Karet have a somewhat long history with both Heldon and Pinhas. Big fans of the band, they first put fandom to wax back in 1991, when they covered the track "Dedicated to K.C." from Pinhas's 1981 album, L'Ethique for the Cuneiform compilation Unsettled Scores. Later, Oken played synths on the 2006 album from Pinhas, Metatron. More recently, Chuck had Richard perform last year at Rhino Records, and, in addition, was recorded at NoiseBug for a future project between the two.

The first of the two albums, Le Plan consists of four tracks from 2000's Only Chaos Is Real by Heldon. it has been given new life after being remixed by Pinhas in 2023. The very first time that this music has been made available on LP format, it has been somewhat overlooked in the Heldon oeuvre, yet more than ever it predicted and reflects the world as it is now. The second of the two albums, Winter Music was a track recorded for, but not used, during the Iceland sessions in 1979. Using the original looping procedures introduced to '70s rock by the likes of Fripp & Eno, he had performed the track by hand-playing a PolyMoog directly into two Revox A700 tape recorders. Although displaying the calm minimalism of much ambient music of the time, Pinhas' 2023 remix brings previously unheard color, full of depth and reflection for what is a piece of essential listening in the genre.

These albums are strictly limited edition to 500 copies, and each copy is numbered. The pair have been manufactured on 180 gram vinyl, thoroughly remixed by Pinhas and remastered by Robert Rich, while each has brand new artwork and its own OBI strip.

Order your copies today via the OtherSide shop today!

Electronique Guerilla: 50th Anniversary Edition

8 Feb 2024

Being released on in early March is a very special edition of the first Heldon album, Electronique Guerilla!. The great team at Bureau B are reissuing the groundbreaking record on limited edition blue vinyl! Only 500 copies are being pressed, and each copy will be hand numbered. Those in Europe can order your copies via the Bureau B website, while those in North American can order your copies via Amazon!

Richard at Rhino Records

27 Sep 2023

For those of you in Southern California, Richard is playing two shows in the coming weeks! On the 18th of October, he is playing 2220 Arts in Los Angeles...but just a few days earlier, he is going to play a very intimate show at the legendary Rhino Records in Montclair! The flyer to the left is your ticket to purchase tickets! Email the store to make your reserveration for this special, intimate performance! Just a $5.00 donation (of which all proceeds go to the artist) will get you in to this once-in-a-lifetime performance. Reserve your ticket today!

CODA

21 Sep 2022

Originally being released on CD (and via LP on April 2023), RP's new album - CODA - sees him hooking up not only with his great friend Masami Akita (aka Merzbow), the forerunner of Japanese electronic music, but his friend Oren Ambarchi also helps out on synths as well! You can pre-order the album over at the Bam Balam Records website here!

The Quietus

24 Apr 2022

RP recently sat down with The Quietus and talked about the albums that have both inspired and touched him throughout his long and storied career. It is an absolute MUST READ!