{"product_id":"heldon-allez-teia-heldon-ii-50th-anniversary-edition","title":"Heldon - Allez-Teia (Heldon II) (50th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sophomore album from the French space rock electro combo. Here, Heldon mastermind, Richard Pinhas, has formed a duo with Georges Grunblatt. The music: an interplay of feather-light acoustic guitars, Mellotron textures, fuzzy sounds and heavy, spherical synthesizers. The opening song, a soaring mix of string-like electronics and smeared guitar, is called “In the Wake of King Fripp,” a reference both to the guitarist and King Crimson’s second album “In the Wake of Poseidon”. The meditative “Omar Diop Blondin,” in which free tones float above a repetitive guitar figure, is dedicated to Fripp and Eno. (Strong influence also comes from The Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt, who was slated to record some tracks with Pinhas for “Allez-Teia” until the expense of his travel from London to Paris proved prohibitive. Yet “Allez-Teia” — whose title is a nod to “aletheia,” the ancient Greek term for philosophical truth — is hardly a tribute album. The pieces Pinhas crafts with partner Georges Grunblatt — both playing guitar, Mellotron, and ARP synths — are beatific on the surface but infused with undercurrents of tension.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"Very Limited Indies Only Hand-Numbered White Lp (500 Only)","offer_id":50155625611542,"sku":"RMX-48417","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/b7b4fb240d57b2830993a963a44ad6f3.jpg?v=1750919161","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/heldon-allez-teia-heldon-ii-50th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}