Welcome In The Void, by Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya

Welcome In The Void

by Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya

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	1.	PART ONE - INTRO 04:15
	2.	PART TWO - CORE TRAX 01:03:56

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"...two pioneers of fringe music, with the rapport of the two as the driving force behind this album" – Something Else!

On 'Welcome In The Void,' Richard Pinhas again pushes sonic and compositional boundaries, this time in a very special collaboration with the legendary Yoshida Tatsuya, "the indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground." Yoshida is one of the most important musicians of the Japanese experimental music scene for the last 35 years, spearheading at least a half dozen of that country's most important and best known experimental groups, including Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn.

'Welcome In The Void' is the second album in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy, concerned with mankind's ideological and physical devolution at the hands of our modern socio-politcal world and technology. For the past several years, Pinhas the musician/philosopher has given thought to, in his words, the "Devolution of mankind, civilization, Capitalism's devolution, and mainly devolution of [human/biolgical] faculties related to the rise of machines". He describes 'Welcome In The Void' as "a kind of journey, not more into the being but into the void - the nothingness that is now the "center" or the absence-of- center of our societies." The first album in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy was 2013's Desolation Row, a sonic protest against the rise of neoliberalism, the global economic crisis and rising social unrest.

Teaming up for their first duo recording, Pinhas and Tatsuya push each others' creative limits to make something that even for the experimental master Pinhas, is a new experience: a single, 64-minute, all-instrumental track consisting solely of guitar, percussion and electronics. The spontaneity, intensity, and sheer force of the music created by the duo is a marvel of musical give and take. The Pinhas/Tatsuya collaboration is an ongoing one, and the duo has plans to tour and record more material in Japan in the near future.

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released May 27, 2014

RICHARD PINHAS
STEREO LOOP GUITAR
LOOP STEREO GUITAR

YOSHIDA TATSUYA
DRUMZ
PERCUSSION

RECORDED IN PARIS AND TOKYO, 2013

MIXED IN PARIS AT HELDON STUDIO BY R.P. (FALL 2013)

ADDITIONAL SOUND ENGINEER (PRE RE-MIX): PIERRE YVES ROUPIN@314 STUDIO.

COMPOSED, PRODUCED AND PERFORMED YOSHIDA TATSUYA AND RICHARD PINHAS

ARTWORK: YANN LEGENDRE / WWW.YANNLEGENDRE.COM

©2014 RICHARD PINHAS
(p) 2014 CUNEIFORM RECORDS

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