• A transgressor, a mystic Franco Battiato dies

At first, Franco Battiato (died yesterday in Italy) was a Sicilian lost in Milan who played in jazz clubs, listened to avant-garde music in the style of Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed melodic songs for song festivals and participated in lyricism and humor. from the years of the counterculture.

Out of that strange mix came a collection of songs surprisingly destined to endure in popular culture.

L 'era del cinghiale bianco (1972)

The hostels in Tunisia were full / because of the summer holidays, / sometimes a storm / would not let us go out.

/ a man of a certain age / often offered me Turkish cigarettes, / but / I hope he will return soon / the Age of the White Boar.

Per Elisa (1981)

For Elisa / You want to see that you will lose me too / For Elisa you no longer know what day it is / Besides, it isn't even beautiful / For Elisa / You always pay and don't complain / You stand in line to buy it / And the problem is that you don't realize it

Cucurrucucu (1981)

The serenades in the magisterial institute, / in the hour of gymnastics or religion, / for carnivals it sounded on the masked cars, / I already had the Moon and Uranus in the Lion, / "the sea in my pocket" / "the thousand blue bubbles "/ since you left I no longer exist, /" the world is gray, the world is blue ".

Bianca Flag (1981)

Mister Tambourine, I do not want to joke, / let's put on the shirt, times will change, / we are children of the stars and great-grandchildren of his majesty money.

/ Fortunately my racism does not let me see, / those crazy programs with electoral stands / and you still want to put on perfumes and deodorants, / you are like quicksand thrown down uh uh ..

Radio Warsaw (1982)

And the lay volunteers / came down the stairs in pajamas / to help the prisoners, / made bandages with sheets, / and the astonished citizens / pretended not to understand anything / to help the deserters / and who escaped in the West.


I want to see you dance (1982)

I want to see you dance / like the gypsies of the desert, / with chandeliers on top, /


or like the parinese on feast days.

/ I want to see you dance / like the dervish tourners that turn / on the spine / to the sound of the bells of Kathakali.

Permanent center of gravity (1982)

An old woman from Madrid with a hat, / an umbrella made of rice paper and bamboo cane.

/ Courageous captains, clever night smugglers.

/ Jesuits in action, dressed as bonzes / in ancient courts with emperors of the Ming dynasty.


E ti come a cercare (1988)

And I come to look for you, / although only to see you or speak, / because I need your presence, / to better understand my essence.

/ This popular feeling, / is born of divine mechanics, / a mystical and sensual ecstasy / imprisons me to you.

The cure (1996)

I will protect you from the fears of hypochondria, / from the troubles that you will find on your way from today.

/ Of the injustices and deceptions of your time, / of the failures that by your nature you will normally attract.


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