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Second album from the French space rock electro combo (1975). Here, Heldon mastermind Richard Pinhas has formed a duo with Georges Grunblatt. The music: an interplay of feather-light acoustic guitars, Mellotron textures, fuzzy sounds and heavy, spherical synthesizers. Before making his own music in the early 70s, Richard Pinhas was a King Crimson fan. By now the British group has buzzed in Pinhas' mind for decades, but their greatest impact came early, from something he couldn't even identify immediately. When he first saw them play, Pinhas was struck by music played during intermission. ""When I saw (King Crimson guitarist) Robert Fripp and Brian Eno perform in Paris later, I realized that the intermission music was their work,"" Pinhas said. ""I didn't know that when I first heard it, but I was very impressed by it. It was the most important influence on Heldon."" That influence is clear on the second Heldon album, ""Allez-Teia"", originally released in 1975 on Pinhas's own Disjuncta label. The opening song, a soaring mix of string-like electronics and smeared guitar, is called ""In the Wake of King Fripp,"" a reference both to the guitarist and King Crimson's second album ""In the Wake of Poseidon"".
Tracklist
1 In the Wake of King Fripp
2 Aphanisis
3 Omar Diop Blondin
4 Moebius
5 Fluence: Continuum Mobile
6 Fluence: Disjonction Inclusive
7 St. Mikael Samstag Abends
8 Michel Ettori