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Rating: "Battiato," the self-titled album by musician Franco Battiato, is one of those experimental albums from Battiato of the '70s, a pioneer of new musical frontiers.
The album consists solely of two works: "Za," which Battiato himself describes as seemingly sparse, almost entirely formed by a piano chord and requiring a meta-analytical listening approach, favoring a non-spatial, atemporal state. In the second "work," "Cafè_Table_Musik," the Catanese artist lets his imagination run wild and creates a kind of musical collage with substitutions, piano scales, false quotations, noises, street vendors' voices (Aranciate, panini, birra!), and nonsensical phrases.
The whole is accompanied by Antonio Ballista on piano and soprano Alide Maria Salvetra. I would personally recommend listening to the album in a dark room, perhaps after coming home from a night out. The effect will be transcendental.
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By aries
"Zâ" is a sound exploration based almost exclusively on the repetition of the same piano chord, with variations in duration and pauses that create resonances.
A musician as free and courageous as few, capable of fascinating you and at the same time irritating and mocking you.
By carlo cimmino
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"I have never heard anything like it. Before."
