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Franco Battiato - Fetus

Franco Battiato

Fetus


On this '70s outing, an early work by the Italian experimental pop composer, the great singer was influenced considerably by his background in experimental electronic music. As a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Battiato was enthusiastic about electronic music, and found his voice as a minimalist composer who combined avant-garde minimalism, experimental rock, and popular forms into a strange hybrid of abstract sound that touches on Tangerine Dream-like passages. Titles such as "Una Cellula," "Energia," "Fenomenologia," and "Mutazione" may indicate that this is a heavy concept album indeed, and the theme of birth and rebirth may well have been a hot topic of the time. Battiato's albu...

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