Obituaries

[Eric the Green]

Most of our 1T and 2T rock heroes have passed away, but now we have lost one of the greatest musicians in the field of electronica, cosmic rock, ambient and new age meditation music. When I first heard his piece "Totem" from Picture Music. I was blown away and transfixed by the cascade of pictures taking me to deep and authentic places and happenings of the Awakening era. It became my favorite new age and electronica piece and remained there to this day. He recorded over 60 albums and released many fine pieces. His music was foundational to the electronics and new age genre, and this piece is related to the German classical music of Bach (especially Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) and Wagner, to classical sitar and tabla music, to shamanism and totem culture, to futuristic imagination, to ambient music and techno ambient rave music, to cosmic rock and psychedelia and space music, to meditation music, to electronic dance music, gothic horror music, occult and esoteric music, and to the Bewitched Genre I coined.

Passed away on what I call the birthday of today's humanity, April 26.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schulze