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After the commercial hits of the '60s ("È l'amore", "La Torre", "Bella Ragazza" etc...) and the unsettling masterpieces "Sulle Corde di Aries" and "Clic", passing through the wonderful prog experimentations of "Fetus" and "Pollution", the then electronic wizard Franco Battiato abandoned the funny, boisterous collages to offer his audience the last experimental work before his conversion to pop.
The result is this ambiguous album that nearly bankrupted Ricordi in 1979. Only two pieces, 14 and 18 minutes long: "L'Egitto Prima delle Sabbie" (winner of the Stockhausen prize for electronic music) and "Sud Afternoon". Listening to these tracks is extremely difficult; suffice it to say that each of these tracks consists exclusively of the repetition of the same (few) piano notes immersed in the utmost silence! The only variation is in the length of the pauses. Battiato shows he has a knack for eccentricities, but this album, endowed with a rare magic in the Italian landscape, remains one of the least interesting of the singer (oops... composer!) from Catania. Subsequently, Sir Franco will release "L'era del Cinghiale Bianco" delivering the most astounding change of course in music history.
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