A New Astronomy

Marco Fasolo: voci e strumenti
Autori testi/musica: Fasolo/ Gastaldello

“A New Astronomy”, album dei Jennifer Gentle del 2005, è disponibile nel mondo digitale a partire da venerdì 25 giugno 2021.

Originariamente pubblicato in tiratura limitatissima da Sub Pop nel 2005 e poi ristampato in CD da A Silent Place nel 2006, “A New Astronomy” consiste in una serie di brani incisi da Marco Fasolo su un 4 tracce a cassetta e rappresenta uno degli album più atipici e sperimentali dei JG: ipnotico, rumorista, nei titoli dei suoi pezzi così come nello spirito un esempio di psichedelia occulta italiana prima ancora che fosse stata coniata questa definizione.

L’edizione A Silent Place riportava la seguente nota:
This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. He was born in 1871 and made a living out of peddling sweets and ice-creams around Northern Italy’s towns and villages. In his free time, he developed his own, revolutionary astronomical theories: the Earth is flat, surrounded on every corner by perennial glaciers; the sun is nothing more than a small silver ball with a 2 meter diameter and a weight of approximately 14 kilos; Copernicus was wrong: the entire official astronomical science is just a bunch of lies; planets don’t move, stars are just little fires hung in the sky, the universe doesn’t exist . He also invented a new solar compass based on his extraordinary discoveries. In his unstoppable attempts to promote the truth, Paneroni tried everything and suffered countless humiliations: he stalked professors, was arrested and became a well known character in many Italian universities. After some years spent in a mental institution, he died in 1950. Thousands of people from all over the country attended his funeral.

Buon ascolto!