Richard Pinhas ‎ICELAND 1979 1st PRESS Ramses HELDON French Prog Experimtal RARE

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Over 100 rare vintage PROG, Krautrock, SPACE ROCK and Electronic Music LPs in this Auction series.
from 50+ years collection of decades-long radio DJ, Record Store associate and dedicated Vinyl Collector.
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All Auctions in this series start at 99¢ opening bid!
Everybody should have a good chance at taking a few of these treasures home.
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Mostly 1st PRESSING Vintage imports, including a few Private Press and Promo LPs
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A lot of 1st Press CANTERBURY, KRAUTROCK and Euro-Prog LPs - some SIGNED - this time around, plus much more.
including some VERTIGO Swirl, Green BRAIN, OHR, PDU, Deram, Crypto, Harvest, Cobra, Spalax, Caroline, Charisma, etc. labels.
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Many still in SHRINK WRAP. Several STILL SEALED.
Quite a few Sterling, Masterdisk and Monarch (USA) pressings in the mix!

SECURE, TOP LP Packing and Materials - 40+ years experience.

This listing is for:
Richard Pinhas
ICELAND
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RAMSES/Polydor Records 2393 254
Original 1979 issue Stereo LP
FIRST PRESSING
MADE in FRANCE

VINYL is EX+
High Quality, Full Gloss Vinyl is beautiful with only a very few faint sleeve marks. VERY clear, sharp and full sound dynamics on this superb pressing. PLAY TESTED. Labels are overall clean with some spindle trails showing on side 2 only.
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COVER is EX
Very clean coated cover with just a hint of ring impression and a few short edge creases at bottom; a couple of slightly bumped, still sharp, corner tips. Seams and spine completely intact with no wear or splits. Spine titles 100% legible, crisp and clear.


STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG



Magnificent 3rd Solo outing from HELDON leader RICHARD PINHAS

Electronic music pioneer and founder/leader of the legendary HELDON, Richard Pinhas also had a great solo career.
ICELAND is a lysergic post-modern odyssey into the coldest reaches of the Northern wastelands - reaching far beyond Iceland itself.

Richard Pinhas / guitar, electronics, moog, composer & producer
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Jean-Phillippe Goude / MiniMoog
François Auger / drums & percussion

Recorded at Heldon Studio and Studio Ramsès
Remixed at Studio Davout and Studio Ramsès
Pressed by Polygram Industries Messageries
"Ⓟ 1979 RAMSES" printed on labels.

MATRIX NUMBERS (STAMPED)
SIDE ONE: POL 160 2393 254 1 380 POLYGRAM
SIDE TWO: POL 160 2393 254 2 380 POLYGRAM

.Artist name "Richard Pinhas" is printed on a clear sticker on front cover..
RAMSES Logo imprint on labels and back cover


℗ Produced for the "Heldon international imperium holding inc." 1979
© Copyright Heldon I.I.H.I. and Ramsès.

"Imp. Polygram Industries Messageries, Imprinté" et Fabrique en France" printed on rear cover.

Polydor company Inner Sleeve included - with no creases, tears splits.
Vinyl kept inside separate anti-static lined inner sleeve.

Track Listing A1

Iceland (Part 1) 1:05 A2
Iceland (Part 2) 9:35 A3
The Last Kings Of Thule (Part 1) 2:25 A4
Iceland (Part 3) 7:36 B1
Indicatif Radio 1:00 B2
The Last Kings Of Thule (Part 2) 5:30 B3
Short Transition 0:35 B4
Greenland 8:56 _____________________________________________

"A master of creating alienating, chilling atmospheres already, on Iceland PINHAS really takes that to the next level, producing a frosty masterpiece which will convince listeners that the dread fimbulwinter that precedes Ragnarok is upon them."
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"Iceland is a magnificant-haunted-majestic piece of art that can be considered among the most synthesized-ambient like albums from Richard Pinhas. It could perfectly been used as a soundtrack for an existential-post nuclear sci-fi movie. Dense layered electronic atmospheres, full of big fat splodgy analogue keyboards. The Robert Fripp inspired 'Heldon' guitars pop up now and again in well-placed sections."
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"Iceland sounds just as its name suggests: cold, icy and vast. On this album, Richard Pinhas creates beautiful, ambient atmospheres. Glistening cascades of glassy sequences fly through the soundscapes - some tragic-dark melancholic pieces moving in a bleak-cold emptiness. The synthesised projections are often cinematic, deadly beautiful if not heartbreaking. Richard Pinhas is no doubt a great name in the world of progressive electronic music, and this is one of his absolute best albums. "Greenland" itself is worth the money."
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"This one is to Richard Pinhas' music catalogue what Agneta Nilsson is to Heldon's: a wonderful-visceral chaosmic hymn to a lost humanity. A must have for those who want to discover the mysterious pearls of progressive electronic music."

SUPERB Sound Quality on this dynamic 1st Pressing


Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more Vintage PINHAS, HELDON and other
Vintage Collectible KRAUTROCK, PROG, PROG-PSYCH, ELECTRONIC and SPACE-ROCK Import LPs.
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From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s.
Sadly he has now finally left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
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Several thousand records (mostly LP's, but also hundreds of 45's), several hundred collectible and Rare, Out of Print CDs and Box Sets,
plus posters and other memorabilia will all eventually be listed.

Truly a great (and enormous) collection!
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