Segnali di vita
Track n° 5 of the album La voce del padrone

Track 5: Segnali Di Vita (2008 Remaster)
The most underrated track on the album... and to this day, anyone who ignores it deserves a beating, because it remains one of the most intense and classic pieces on the album. So much so that, here I say it and here I deny it, it wouldn't be out of place on an album like "Fisiognomica," further softening the arrangement. "Time changes many things in life: meaning, friendships, the desire to change that is in me, the need for personal evolution detached from common rules, from this false personality," in a few words Battiato describes the life of a human being, which constantly changes; every person matures with every passing second, living more and more as themselves, detached from all the fake personalities they wear every day. "Signs of life in the courtyards and houses at dusk, the lights remind us of celestial mechanics," a bit of the piece's leitmotif, simply telling us "something is changing," in simple things and places lies the future of humanity, and we must seize all of it because that's where life is. "Sounds that provide a background for the stars, the cosmic space is expanding and the galaxies are moving away," even the universe is constantly changing, expanding more and more; "You realize how low my mind flies" in relation to the previously mentioned cosmic space, "It's the fault of associative thoughts that I can’t stay here now," we are still too attached to a mundane mentality to understand these things that are much greater than us.
After the leitmotif of the whole piece (Signs of life in the courtyards etc.), perhaps the most intense and moving moment of the entire song arrives: the final coda: a pulsating drumbeat, saxophones animatedly reproducing the melody, violins soaring supported by pianos, and in the last 20 seconds everything comes together in a sound that strikes the heart with its power and refinement.
One very beautiful aspect of this album is that the more danceable tracks boast linguistic games filled with quotations, while the ballads choose a simpler yet emotionally charged approach, which is a stylistic choice that continues to resonate; even after 40 years, we all still let ourselves be emotionally carried away by pieces like "Segnali di vita."