- LP Record (Sep 2 2008)
- Number of Discs: 3
- Format: Limited Edition
- Label: Dirter Promotions
- ASIN: B001E7XG04
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
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Deluxe vinyl version of Keio Line (the same content also to be issued on double CD by Cuneiform); the complete recording of an incredible collaboration that sweeps across the generations of electronic music. Richard Pinhas is internationally recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians: the "father" of French electronic music. He was the founder of seminal space-rock band Heldon, a band whose violent fusion of electronics and guitar in the '70s rivalled the German electronic school. As a guitar player, he has been compared to Robert Fripp. Cited as an influence by many electronic musicians, Pinhas has helped to define the space music genre. Since founding Heldon in 1974, Pinhas has released over 15 albums, had involvement in dozens more and shaped the way we listen to music today. Masami Akita aka Merzbow is the forerunner of Japanese electronic music, and for the last 20 years plus, has been at the top of his game ploughing more and more extreme sonic territories. This release, recorded in Tokyo in October 2007, will surprise a lot of people in its sheer beauty. This is a collaboration that works in the true sense of the word, with each artist complimenting the other over six long, sprawling tracks, each occupying the whole of each side. The set comes housed in a gloss-laminated sleeve and is limited to just 1000 copies.
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Plenty of ambient noise, May 24 2009
By Aussiemystic "aussiemystic" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Keio Line (Audio CD)
This is one of those CDs that may well make your mates question whether you can call it "music". Whilst not having the aggression of some of Merzbow's more extreme noise works, this double-cd of abstract soundscapes has little to offer in the way of melody or even rhythm, except for the odd bit of electronic chugging. What it does have is plenty of ambience and atmosphere.Full of long tracks (most are over 15 minutes), the CD progresses slowly and gradually, with little real sense of evolution. It's reminiscent at times of Fripp and Eno's "The Heavenly Music Corporation" from (no pussyfooting), although more gritty and industrial in sound. The noises themselves are often reminiscent of the early industrial works of the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and 23 Skidoo, but without the rhythm and groove that those artists often applied.
My main criticism of this CD would be that despite encompassing six tracks spread over a little under two hours, no track really distinguishes itself in any particular way - there could have been a little more variation for my liking. However, some may disagree with me; and it's great as background or dark room chill music - if your idea of chilling includes listening to sounds that could be echoes of trains passing down a metal tube, or the throb of a generator.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yes and no..., Oct 24 2010
By W. Tilland - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Keio Line (Audio CD)
It's hard to shift through the convoluted verbiage in Mr. Leimer's review but I would cautiously agree with him that this is a somewhat less consistent effort than Metatron. I applaud Pinhas' willingness to engage with uncompromising noise artists such as Merzbow, but what we have here are two very idiosyncratic musical personalities, not really accustomed to collaborations, who are trying to engage with each other. So it should come as no surprise that there are some rough patches and some attempted flights that become airborne but never quite soar. All the same, almost any Pinhas recording is worth hearing, and if you have the patience and stamina to immerse yourself in his sprawling soundworlds, you're almost guaranteed to hear some things that will totally amaze you. It's really a question of percentages. Incidentally, I find the Pinhas collaborations with Merzbow AND Wolf Eyes on the second disk of his nest release, Metal/Crystal, to be less tentative and therefore more fully realized. So Keio Line is perhaps a stepping stone???
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
FAMILIAR, FROM BEHIND, Feb 23 2009
By Kerry Leimer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Keio Line (Audio CD)
Having redefined the scale of sonic monumentalism with the 2006 two-disc set Metatron, Keio Line cleaves to the opposite - a two disc set of comparatively simple instrumentation reliant upon the real time reconfiguration of signals. To again borrow from Kurt Schwitters, Keio Line is clearly an audio merzbau, collage-like rambles using scraps of audioforms and phrases generated by guitar with de rigueur pedals, a snyth and the now omnipresent laptop. For Schwitters, "merz" was a contraction of the German word "schmerz", meaning pain. And while the pain here is implicit, never overt, the music is often reassuringly familiar. The signal path - where so much effort now resides - results in a restless sonic amalgam, admirably uncertain, all deftness in the soundstage and still radiant with the digital metaphor of the analog ideal. But set beside other signal paths, this one seems too well-worn. By now one wonders if Pinhas is asking himself even the most rudimentary questions about his approach. While phrases subsumed by reprocessing and laptopification swirl and shudder with unflagging conviction in the pulsing spontaneium, they occasionally surface and are readily recognizable from as long ago as Allez Teia, the Heldon album featuring such loving invocations of Fripp's 1970s sostenudo. Keio Line may simply demonstrate that we've lived long enough to cross the generational threshold, innovation now belonging to those born into the digital milieu, not grafted onto it, and consequently being the better suited in surveilling the new terrain.
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