richard pinhas – event and repetitions (cuneiform)

since we already know about pinhas from his previous release we can immediately start listening his latest release. pinhas’ new solo album on cuneiform, ‘event and repetitions’, features over 75 minutes of music performed live on guitar recorded directly to a digital recorder in his heldon studio in paris. all tracks are made using only guitar and processing systems. in this extraordinary long tracks, walls of guitar noise and ambient interweave into one another building new solid sound structure. sheets of deep rhythmless guitar pads create sound textures that weave and meander throughout the whole time. in all of the 25 minutes, as much as a single track lasts, layers of sound and feedback slowly are evolving from quiet to a loud state and vice versa forming subtle guitarscape. nothing else happens, but with all this richness of sound, you don’t need more. just give yourself up to this cold river of sound and let the sound flow carry you away to the strange and unknown spaces of your subconscious.