DON'T CALL HIM MAESTRO - TEN SONGS WE WILL NEVER GET LISTENING
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DON'T CALL HIM MAESTRO - TEN SONGS WE WILL NEVER GET LISTENING
Photo Source: Antonino Rampulla
May 18, 2021: what unfortunately happens at any moment, for some time, we knew would happen. The tired voice of his farewell, of his spiritual will, Torneremo ancora , written jointly with his friend Juri Camisasca, former author of the splendid Nomadi , already betrayed the hope of his return to the scene.

Sorry if we skip yet another copy / paste of life, death and miracles by Franco Battiato . You can read about him what you want, wherever you want, because a lot has been written in recent days, perhaps even a little hypocritically. Simply, do not call him Maestro , because several times he has publicly expressed discomfort towards the epithet that, when one realizes the incredible scope of his artistic and cultural vein, the same ones who first denigrated it for its avant-garde beginnings, gradually hastened to repeat parroting.

Here, instead, we want to collect his the ten most representative songs for us , the ones that we would hardly ever get tired of listening to, the ones that we believe anyone who has expressed their displeasure on social media should know for the death of Franco Battiato. They are chosen without overly rationalizing. It is not a ranking, there is no order, they are, as they say here in Sicily, listed in muzzo :

Radio Varsavia
Mal d’Africa
Un'altra vita
L’animale
E ti vengo a cercare
L’oceano di silenzio
Povera Patria
L’ombra della luce
Caffè de la paix
La cura

But what if we were talking about entire albums ? Contrary to what was written in this period about the La voce del padrone, an album in any case wonderful, in consideration of the fact that personally we consider the period between 1988 and 1993 the apex compositional of the immense Battiato, if we had to recommend only three, we would have no doubts:

Fisiognomica
Come un cammello in una grondaia
Café de la Paix

"Dear unaware our friend, reference and refuge, we will miss you so much. Goodbye"
Text Source: Antonino Rampulla
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