Winter Music & Le Plan vinyl now available for ordering!
OtherSide, the label started by friend of Richard [and Djam Karet member] Chuck Oken Jr and Richard's webmaster Mike Ostrich, are thrilled to announce that their second set of releases are available to order right this very minute - yes, we mean now! - with a release date of August 2nd. These two releases are, for the moment, on vinyl only, but will be on your local streaming platform sometime in September. Both LPs feature legendary French guitarist Richard Pinhas of the band Heldon.
Djam Karet have a somewhat long history with both Heldon and Pinhas. Big fans of the band, they first put fandom to wax back in 1991, when they covered the track "Dedicated to K.C." from Pinhas's 1981 album, L'Ethique for the Cuneiform compilation Unsettled Scores. Later, Oken played synths on the 2006 album from Pinhas, Metatron. More recently, Chuck had Richard perform last year at Rhino Records, and, in addition, was recorded at NoiseBug for a future project between the two.
The first of the two albums, Le Plan consists of four tracks from 2000's Only Chaos Is Real by Heldon. it has been given new life after being remixed by Pinhas in 2023. The very first time that this music has been made available on LP format, it has been somewhat overlooked in the Heldon oeuvre, yet more than ever it predicted and reflects the world as it is now. The second of the two albums, Winter Music was a track recorded for, but not used, during the Iceland sessions in 1979. Using the original looping procedures introduced to '70s rock by the likes of Fripp & Eno, he had performed the track by hand-playing a PolyMoog directly into two Revox A700 tape recorders. Although displaying the calm minimalism of much ambient music of the time, Pinhas' 2023 remix brings previously unheard color, full of depth and reflection for what is a piece of essential listening in the genre. These albums are strictly limited edition to 500 copies, and each copy is numbered. The pair have been manufactured on 180 gram vinyl, thoroughly remixed by Pinhas and remastered by Robert Rich, while each has brand new artwork and its own OBI strip. Order your copies today via the OtherSide shop today!