Lucio Battisti - Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara (Still/Pseudo Video)
It's true that certain songs listened to in the green years of youth remain indelibly impressed in memory. For this old song by Battisti, my mental association goes to the first time I heard it. It was a sunny day in the spring of 1969. I was still wearing shorts and playing football with other kids, while nearby someone was blasting a little radio playing "Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara." I was too young (only 10 years old) to understand the meaning of the lyrics, well centered on the dialectic between chaste love and profane love, but the melody was so captivating that it became associated with the radiant atmosphere of the budding spring. Since then, I have listened to a lot of beautiful music (not just Lucio Battisti), but for me, it is still difficult today not to appreciate this composition. Perhaps it’s nostalgic sentimentality...