Heldon – Stand by

1 review for Heldon – Stand by

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   Ivar de Vries – 1999-11-22

   ‘Stand By’ is the last Heldon album, and what a good final album it is. Its line-up consisted of Francois Auger on drums/percussion, Patrick Gauthier on keyboards, Didier Batard on bass and of course main music-providor Richard Pinhas on keyboards and guitars.

   The title-track is a heavy dramatic blues-piece in a style similar to the first live bonus-track on the preceding album ‘Interface’ (the two pieces have at least one guitar-riff in common) but here some electronics is added – it also contains some of the liveliest guitar-playing yet by Pinhas.
   ‘Une Drole De Journee’ by Patrick Gauthier is more jazzy and features, as far as I know, the only occurrence in Heldon of his piano-playing.
   The whole album could be described as the discovery of the sequencer” and none more so than on the aptly titled ‘Bolero’