Reissue of the second album from 1975, on which Richard Pinhas forms a duo with Georges Grunblatt. Even before Richard Pinhas began making music in the early 1970s, he was a fan of King Crimson. The British band's music has never left him, but their influence was certainly greatest at the very beginning. This is particularly evident on Heldon's second album, "Allez-Teia." It was released in 1975 on Pinhas's own label, Disjuncta. The opening song, a floating mix of Mellotron sounds and a smeared guitar, is titled "In The Wake Of King Fripp." This double reference refers both to the band's guitarist Robert Fripp and to "In The Wake Of Poseidon," the second King Crimson album. The meditative "Omar Diop Blondin," with its free-floating notes over a repetitive guitar figure, is explicitly dedicated to Brian Eno and Fripp. Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine was also a major influence on Pinhas. Nevertheless, "Allez-Teia" is not a tribute album. The pieces that Pinhas created with his partner Georges Grunblatt appear joyfully beautiful at first glance, but they all carry a tense undercurrent. They form an interplay of feather-light acoustic guitar, Mellotron carpets, fuzz sounds, and heavy, ethereal synthesizer tones.
