The Rest in Peace Thread (RIP)

[rostasi]

Franco Battiato (1945 - today)

Franco Battiato is often heralded as Italy's answer to Brian Eno. A quizzical composer/lyricist, Battiato turned pop music upside down in the early '70s with three classic LPs – Fetus, Pollution and Sulle Corde Di Aries – that formed a confluence of avant-folk sensibilities and analog electronics.

Originally released in 1971 on Bla Bla, Fetus predated the prodigious Cramps and Multhipla catalogues to become one of the first electronic records produced in Italy. With his trusted VCS3 synthesizer, Battiato created primordial soundscapes that shift between dreamy and delirious. His unsentimental, yet evocative voice – combined with a sublimely detached approach to lyrics – spawned a new breed of divergent songwriting.

Fetus, a concept album exploring themes of genetic engineering, is enigmatically sub-titled "Ritorno al Mondo Nuovo" (Return to the New World) and dedicated to Aldous Huxley. While the sleeve design may have raised a few eyebrows upon its initial release, the back cover photograph of Battiato (standing defiant in dark glasses) makes the real iconoclastic statement.

Battiato's infectious melodies and innovative sound-collage techniques remain uniquely spry given that each track averages less than four minutes in length. Pink Floyd's Meddle, Os Mutantes' eponymous recordings and Jim O'Rourke's experimental-pop idiosyncrasies all find parallels to the curious beauty of Fetus.

[Plankton]

I always had a lot of respect for Paul. RIP Mr Mooney.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjTUZtpLLSc

[Plankton]

Chuck too?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDMn_ogRHU

[The Batlord]

So Berserk is now forever to be unfinished. I'm just a bit emptier now.

https://www.cnet.com/news/berserk-cr...-died-aged-54/

[rostasi]

Rusty Warren

[The Batlord]

*flees thread*

[Frownland]

Eric Carle, author and artist behind 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' dies at 91

First book I learned how to read as a toddler. I memorized the words and pretended to read it, which is still my technique.

[Stephen]

RIP. Read that to my kids so many times.

[rostasi]

The Dutch astronomer Kees de Jager died yesterday.

I measured the diameters of my bike's: -pedals, symbolizing the forward-going dynamics; -front wheel, which directs my ways into the unknown future; -lamp, enlightening my paths; -bell, though which I communicate with encounters. Thus I laid the building stones for a new holistic four-dimensional religion apt to the coming of the New Age of Aquarius: cyclosophy. The measurements were expressed in Holy Bike inches, being 17mm. This is so since 1 is the first prime number and 17 the seventh, and because seven is the holy number. Calling P, W, L and B the four measured quantities, it turns out that P ^ 2 √ L x W = 1823 which is the ratio between the masses of the proton and the electron ... Coincidences occur regularly in numerical experiments, as in daily life ... are not rare ... Most people greatly underestimate the enormous amount of possible combinations between numbers. Adventures in Science and Cyclosophy.

[Marie Monday]

Rip, I had never heard of him but that sounds like an article I'd enjoy reading