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Heldon is a French electronic rock band created in 1974. The name of the band was taken from the 1972 novel The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad.

Like its predecessor Schizo, it is above all the group of guitarist Richard Pinhas who released a large number of albums under his own name.

He has worked with numerous collaborators among which musicians of the band Magma as well as philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze (of whome he was a student) and writers such as Norman Spinrad and Maurice Dantec (the Schizotrope project).

Influenced by the work of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, the music of Richard Pinhas and Heldon is sui generis and innovative and has in its turn greatly influenced the field of electronic rock.

The first releases under the moniker Schizo and later Heldon were entirely self produced and self distributed

Discography of Richard Pinhas and Heldon

The majority of recordings of Richard Pinhas and Heldon were pressed on CD by French label Spalax and American label Cuneiform Records, featuring numerous bonus tracks.

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