January Record Club: memorial poll

Thanks as always for putting in the time on these Record Clubs, ganews. But please allow me to promote my nomination in a way that isn't an Italian-language Wiki article.

Franco Battiato, a filmmaker and composer as well as pop musician, first released music in the mid-'60s. He started making waves in the early '70s with a quartet of albums that are most accurately described as prog but, as I noted in the nomination, more closely aligned with Krautrock than Italian (not to mention English and French) prog of the era in their stylistic diversity and emphasis on tone. Of the '70s work, Sulle Corde di Aries isn't the most diverse but is the most effortlessly lovely to these ears. Battiato would go on make a commercial killing with the 1981 synth-pop effort La Voce del Padrone and, in the course of researching this, I learned he collaborated with Antony Hegarty (now ANOHNI) on a 2013 album, which I'll have to check out.