Artist: Franco Battiato
Genre(s):
Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
Instrumental
Ethnic
Folk
Rock
Other
Discography:
Il Vuoto
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Frequenze E Dissolvenze
Year: 2007
Tracks: 34
Pollution
Year: 2006
Tracks: 7
Un Soffio al Cuore di Natura Elettrica
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
The Platinum Collection cd3
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
The Platinum Collection cd2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 19
Studio Collection
Year: 2003
Tracks: 31
Ferro Battuto
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
La Cura: Best of
Year: 1999
Tracks: 19
Fleurs
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Live Collection CD2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Live Collection CD1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Clic
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
L'imboscata
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Caffe De La Paix
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Gilgamesh
Year: 1992
Tracks: 24
L'era Del Cinghiale Bianco
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
Giubbe Rosse
Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Fisiognomica
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
Genesis
Year: 1987
Tracks: 19
Echoes of Sufi Dances
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
La Voce Del Padrone
Year: 1981
Tracks: 7
Feed back (CD2)
Year: 1976
Tracks: 8
Feed back (CD1)
Year: 1976
Tracks: 6
Fetus
Year: 1972
Tracks: 8
Patriots
Year:
Tracks: 7
Orizzonti Perduti
Year:
Tracks: 8
La Cura
Year:
Tracks: 19
L'ombrello
Year:
Tracks: 9
L'egitto Prima Delle Sabbie
Year:
Tracks: 2
Gommalaca
Year:
Tracks: 10
Fleurs 3
Year:
Tracks: 12
Fisiognostica
Year:
Tracks: 8
Campi Magnetici
Year:
Tracks: 8
America's self-regarding vision of itself is such that artists world Health Organization are unquestioned legends elsewhere are not seen to have made it if they have got no stateside success. That doesn't mean that they can't have an influence cosmopolitan, whether English-speaking or non, which is where longtime Italian star Franco Battiato comes into the moving picture. Avant-rocker Jim O'Rourke has named him as one of his favorites, Simple Minds' Jim Kerr has collaborated with him, piece an ever-expanding serial of reissues brought his early act upon to the attending of prog-psych fanatics around the world in the later '90s, regular as he pursues his current recording interests in other spheres.
Innate in 1945 in the small town of Jonio, Battiato's initial stabs into musical work in the sixties didn't go anyplace beyond a unmarried or 2, leaving his first real discover to occur in the early '70s when he began recording a series of albums for the underground label Bla Bla. Starting with Foetus in 1971 and last with L'Egitto Prima Delle Sabbie (Egypt Before the Sands) in 1978, he staked out his have claim in the high-ferment world of Italian prog rock. Musically complete if sometimes ailing recorded, and fearless to spoil in more than a small whimsy, these records covered the gamut from extreme experimentalism to more than song-focused efforts, the deuce almost noteworthy of which would be 1972's Pollution and 1973's Sulle Corde Di Aries (On the Ropes of Aries). Compared to other bands like Area and PFM, however, Battiato and his ring were cult figures more loved abroad than at home; performances in France and Germany as the chess opening pretend for Brian Eno and Nico pay a sense as to his invoke elsewhere. Battiato's oft exuberant appearance at this time make him something of an Italian Peter Gabriel, piece his lyrics eschewed then-fashionable Maoist/terrorist posing in favor of a deep merely humourous combination of Asian philosophies and literary reflection.
Shift labels to EMI's Italian branch, his fortunes in the Italian popular centre turned (besides in an unearthly line of latitude with Gabriel) in the '80s, specifically with 1981's La Voce del Padrone (The Voice of the Master). Embracing a more organise, synth-pop stylus -- not too surprising given that keyboards were constantly his primary musical musical instrument -- Battiato set up himself rewarded with an Italian smash up, enabling his star topology to rise up both at home and elsewhere in Europe. Since so, spell he has not specifically revisited his before style in broad, Battiato has continued to explore whatsoever number of musical styles and approaches in the present day. This includes a number of collaborations with orchestras and multimedia touring, notably including a visit with Virtuosi Italiani in 1993 to Baghdad to collaborate with Iraq's interior orchestra, as well as works commissioned by his native Sicily to celebrate that island's rich history. Something of an senior solon of Italian popular music as of the turn of the millennium, Battiato continues to phonograph recording and perform, following his muse wheresoever it leads him.
