Having been a precursor of the home studio, Richard Pinhas came to the Davout studios to record the fifth Heldon album Un Rêve sans conséquence spéciale originally released in 1976 on the Cobra label. He had a special space reserved for him, where there was a Moog 3 which had belonged to Paul McCartney. Intense, violent, bitter, abrasive, uncompromising: the first on-site recording is in keeping with the four predecessors, prefiguring both Industrial- and post-rock, showing once again that the early references to “guerrilla electronics” (and to William S. Burroughs) were not in vain! The newcomers to this universe, bassist Didier Batard (Coeur Magique, Triptyque), on one track, and drummer François Auger (heard on the fifth album by Gérard Manset) finally transform Heldon into a fiery power trio for the inspired “MVC II”. Without forgetting that the faithful Patrick Gauthier is also on board, as is Jannick Top (Magma), each on one track.Listening to the result it is easy to understand why Merzbow, Wolf Eyes and Oren Ambarchi, in the 2000s wanted to record with Richard Pinhas! It must also be noted that the often-made comparison between Heldon / Richard Pinhas and King Crimson / Robert Fripp, while still pertinent, is insufficient, as Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale breaks much new ground beyond those horizons.High Quality Mastering from Richard Pinhas original masters 700 copies on clear purple vinyl + 300 copies on clear yellow (boxset only) - Obi Strip – Matt Printing

from my article "From the land of Schizo and beyond..." in Audion 23 (Nov.1992)Heldon 5: UN REVE SANS CONSEQUENCE SPECIALE (named after the famous King Crimson bootleg) certainly took everyone by surprise, with its churning sequencers, crashing percussives, racy drums and entangled webs of agonisingly intense and fluid guitars, oozing layer upon layer of without ever really letting up; François Auger was certainly a boon, his mastery of drums and percussion amazing, not least so on the multi-layered percussion extravaganza Elephanta. Again Heldon had forged onto new realms.