Lucio Battisti

Very few in Italy have been so exceptional in both exquisitely pop songs and in the more experimental and challenging ones. He navigated through multiple genres with a daring ambition and a skill and awareness that leave one in awe. The partnership with Mogol was popular in the best sense of the term, without shunning progressive echoes in Amore e Non Amore and in the masterpiece Anima Latina. The collaboration with Panella remains complex, difficult to interpret even today, but the Dischi Bianchi are still excellent and above all historical, with that seemingly cold fusion between the voice used like a synth by a metrically superb Battisti, the strongly synthetic music, and the texts that are so hermetic and surreal.