Even before Richard Pinha's early 70s he was a fan of King Crimson. To this day, the music of the British band has not let him go, but the greatest influence was certainly at the beginning. This becomes particularly clear on the second Heldon album "Allez-Teia". It was released in 1975 on Pinhas' own label Disjuncta. The opening song, a floating mix of mellotron sounds and a blurred guitar, is titled "In The Wake Of King Fripp". This double allusion refers to the band guitarist Robert Fripp and "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 expressly dedicated to Brian Eno and Fripp. Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine also had a great influence on Pinhas. Nevertheless,"Allez-Teia" is not a tribute album. The pieces, which Pinhas created together with his partner Georges Grunblatt, appear at first glance to be joyfully beautiful, but all of them carry a tense undercurrent. They form an interplay of feather-light acoustic guitar, mellotron carpets, fuzz sounds and heavy, spherical synthesizer sounds.
