ARTIST...: Richard Pinhas
TITLE....: L'Ethique
YEAR.....: 2019
LABEL....: Bureau B
CAT.NO...: BB293
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 45:17
SIZE.....: 103.86 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2019/09/16
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Btsesw6b4enimxmeyffzrrgviby
TRACKLIST
01) (06:20) L'Ethique (Part 1)
02) (06:51) Dedicated to K.C.
03) (04:12) Melodic Simple Transition
04) (05:00) Belfast
05) (04:05) L'Ethique (Part 2)
06) (07:45) The Western Wail (Part 1)
07) (04:46) L'Ethique (Part 3)
08) (04:30) The Western Wail (Part 2)
09) (01:48) L'Ethique (Part 4)
Following the vaguely poppy shapes of 1980Æs album East West, his fith album
LÆEthique saw ex-Heldon guitarist and synth wizard Richard Pinhas return to bigger
and bolder band-like methods. After the release he disappeared from the limelight for
nearly a decade and returned in the 1990s.
Interviewed by ôElectronics & Music Makerö magazine in 1982, Richard Pinhas spoke in
buoyant terms about the future of his recording career. Having just unveiled his
fifth solo album, LÆEthique, he was already scheming towards its follow-up. The next
record. It would see him shift from analogue-based methods to digital systems. He
expected the album to arrive in 1984. Little did anybody know that the mooted record
would not actually materialise.
The year after that interview took place, Pinhas was plunged into a long period of
depression. ôI stopped everything and didnÆt think I would ever come back to music,ö
he remembers. ôI decided music was no longer for me. IÆd said what I had to wanted to
say, and it was done. It was out of my head and out of my life.ö Thus, he sold all
his synthesisers and tried to survive on their profits along with royalties from his
back catalogue. LÆEthique now looked as though it was PinhasÆ final artistic
statement. It was a strong collection to go out on.
LÆEthique saw Pinhas return to bigger and bolder band-like methods. His collaborators
included bassist Bernard Paganotti and ClΘment Bailly, both of whom performed stints
in the prog band Magma. Moog player Patrick Gauthier made a reappearance too. The
line-up brought a phat and forceful feel to the crunching jazz-rock fusion of
æBelfastÆ and æDedicated To K.C.Æ, a vibrant space-rock stomper that lurks on some
distant planet between the extraterrestrial habitats of King Crimson, Pink Floyd and
Hawkwind. Part 1 of æThe Western WallÆ has a particularly fast tempo.
Interspersing these rockers sit some mellower moments. The title of the gorgeous
synth rumination æMelodic Simple TransitionÆ seems far too modest. Despite its dark
and brooding synth chords, the second instalment of æThe Western WallÆ has a
strangely calming effect on the senses.
Pinhas disappeared from the limelight for nearly a decade under the weight of his
depression. On the strength of this record, not to mention the works that preceded
it, thereÆs little wonder that so many labels and promoters were falling over
themselves to persuade Pinhas to return to music, which he eventually did in the
1990s. ôThe real miracle is that I reconnected with the music-making process,ö says
Pinhas on overcoming his reclusive years. ôIt is easy to fall, but very difficult to
come back.ö
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