FROHMADER/PINHAS 
983025
CD
FOSSIL CULTURES

STYLE/LINK:HELDON

Ladeez and gentlemen - in the blue corner… From Sweden, on synths, samplers and 5-string electric bass guitar, the thunderous, the awesome power of... Peter Frohmader! In the red corner… From France, on Roland electric guitars, and burning a napalm-infused path to infinity, legendary Heldon guitarist… Richard Pinhas! It’s a 7 round fight to the finish contest from 1999, with each round lasting anything between six to sixteen minutes and it promises to be the duel of the decade. Click the further information link for the full report on this duel of the dinosaurs…

Round 1: Pinhas opens with a smouldering guitar texture/riff. Frohmader counters with a gigantic, stumbling electro-percussive rhythm, which forces Pinhas to turn up the heat and deliver a molten slice of red-hot guitar soloing. Frohmader is stunned and forced to gather up his complete arsenal and throw the works at his partner, and, amid a hail of deep, pounding electric bass and a wall of synth/organ layers, Frohmader aims an almighty blow. The two fighters lock horns and go all-out in an inferno of sonic splendour, blow after percussive blow met with storming, steaming electric guitar leads; even the monumental bass attack can't stop the snarling guitars. After nearly ten minutes, Pinhas gives ground to Frohmader as he reveals an entire synth choir behind him – “beat that if you can” is the cry!  One last time, Pinhas seizes the guitar and hurls an entire army of spiralling riffs and leads at the smug sounds of Frohmader, who, after all is said and done, has no counter for this almighty sonic assault, and falls away, defeated, leaving the tired but still smouldering strains of Pinhas' smoking guitar wailing into the night sky. That, my friends, is but the first (nearly) twelve-minute track on a 7-part, seventy-one minute suite that takes up this entire album. The rest follow an equally mighty musical path and are everything you would expect (and more) from a two-year instrumental collaboration between one of the world's leading electric guitarists and one of the world's finest electric bassists/rhythm programmers. The best Pinhas release since the glory days of Heldon's ‘Standby’. Incendiary, musically consistent, cohesive music and one of the most powerful, dynamic and totally mind-blowing releases you'll hear.

Weight: 150.00 g