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LA RECENSIONE
Hypnotic disquietude, vague malaise, subtle alienation.
Light dizziness born of a dark, enigmatic unease.
A sense of emptiness like hostile, foreign bewilderment.
Yet a new scent, indecipherable, wandering, elusive.
Smoky melodies reverberate on musical slime threading spirals of unexpressed voluptuousness.
And all those words, those out-of-sync rhymes. A graceful and playful stroll on a Treccani silently complicit in such a literary raid.
Those beguiling words, those new perspectives, a skewed modernity.
Word set to music, music embedded.
Without beginning, without end.
Circular, deceptive, enchanting.
A genius of music and one of words duet from a distance and interpenetrate languidly in a cold embrace.
And you won't be able to understand, you won't be able to say HERE IT IS!
It's what you see from behind the window when it’s raining outside.
It's what it seems to you.
It's just APPEARANCE.
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Lucio Battisti's 'L'apparenza' immerses listeners in a hypnotic, enigmatic atmosphere filled with subtle unease and poetic complexity. The album blends smoky melodies and out-of-sync rhymes, creating a unique modernity and artistic ambiguity. This work is a masterful interplay of words and music, defying easy interpretation. It captivates through a circular, deceptive beauty that lingers like a rainy day view from behind a window.Tracklist Videos
Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti (1943–1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer, celebrated for his collaborations first with lyricist Mogol and later with Pasquale Panella. His career spans 1960s pop classics to later experimental, electronic 'white' albums.100 Reviews
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By bogusman
The appearance of the word, in its ambiguity, is already laden with all possible meanings which will be revealed to the listener differently each time.
Words and music can free themselves from the obscenity of having to be necessarily (and basely) univocal and clear.
By ygmarchi2
"Oh, it is so magical. The harmonies are mainly all Lucio's. He demoed the songs with a very simple keyboard with his voice."
"At that time drum machines were widely used and the use of rhythmic keyboards gave it this feeling of almost unemotion. This is what he wanted... the appearance."
By Martello
"A song that seems to talk about love but doesn’t actually talk about love."
"The lyrics are where the amorous theme is rendered almost explicitly, with an arrangement both gentle and powerful."
