Henny Vrienten was a Dutch singer-songwriter and composer, known for such songs as “Is dit alles” (1982).
With the band Doe Maar, he produced the dub album Doe De Dub (1982).
Tag Archives: 1948
RIP Thierry Mugler (1948 – 2022)
Thierry Mugler was a French fashion designer known for his avant-garde, architectural, hyperfeminine and theatrical approach to haute couture.
My personal connection to Mugler is me seeing his photos (or was it one photo?) taken at the Tafraout site with the rocks painted by Jean Vérame. This was at the Animism exhibion at the MuKHA in 2010.
That photo can be seen in Thierry Mugler, Photographer (1988) by Thierry Mugler.
RIP Mick Rock (1948 – 2021)
Mick Rock was a British photographer known for such portraits as Iggy Pop on the cover of Raw Power (1973).
RIP Ronnie Wilson (1948 – 2021)
Ronnie Wilson was American musician, co-founder with his two brothers, of The Gap Band, known for such compositions as “Oops Up Side Your Head (1979), “Outstanding” (1982) and “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” (1982).
Charlie Wilson the only living member of the band.
I give you “Outstanding”
RIP Barbara Ess (1948 – 2021)
Barbara Ess was an American photographer and musician.
She is probably best known for her work with Y Pants.
RIP Toshinori Kondo (1948 – 2020)
Toshinori Kondo was a Japanese trumpeter.
He worked in avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion.
Kondo also frequently collaborated with Bill Laswell.
The album above also features a a cover of “Sun Is Shining”, around minute 17.
RIP Michael Sorkin (1948 – 2020)
This happened in March but I only found out today.
How?
By reading Pandemic! by Slavoj Žižek which has a commemoration for Sorkin as epigraph.
Michael Sorkin was an American architect, architectural critic and activist.
An outdated version of Wikipedia says Sorkin was an outspoken supporter of politically leftist causes.
In 2005, he edited Against the Wall, which compares Israel to Apartheid South Africa.
This book caught my attention, as the geopolitical situation of the Middle East is becoming more and more of interest of me.
Not so long ago, it dawned on me that the Middle East was becoming my WWII. Allow me to explain. When I was younger I regularly came into contact with older gentlemen who were fascinated by everything which had to do with World War II.
World War II has never interested me much, except for the Holocaust.
As I grow older, I become fascinated with everything Middle East, with geopolitics and with clashes of civilization.
RIP Steve Martin Caro (1948 – 2020)
Steve Martin Caro was an American rock musician best known for his rendition of the songs “Walk Away Renée” (1966) and “Pretty Ballerina” (1966) for the 1960s baroque pop band The Left Banke.