RIP Franco Battiato
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Topic: RIP Franco Battiato
Posted By: Man With Hat
Subject: RIP Franco Battiato
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 02:17
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https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/music/109702/franco_battiato_iconic_italian_songwriter_dies_aged_76#.YKN3wIeSmUk" rel="nofollow - Franco Battiato, iconic Italian songwriter, dies aged 76 Some grand stuff in those early albums. RIP ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 02:25
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just shocked... ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 02:30
In the linked article there's a big mistake: the single "Attenti al Lupo" was the crappiest song released by Lucio Dalla, nothing to do with Battiato. Lucia Dalla was a great jazzist and songwriter, but that song was his worst one (and as you can expect, a huge commercial success). ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Man With Hat wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 02:36
Sorry, this was the only confirmation article I could find in english.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 03:12
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SULLE CORDI DI ARIES & especially CLIC were important albums in the first years of SPACE PIRATE RADIO. his version of LA MER was also a fave. ------------- https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 03:31
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Very sad news to wake up to, though not unexpected. It had been known for a while that Battiato was sick. I was lucky to see him live in Rome at the time he released his first "pop" album, the excellent L'era del cinghiale bianco. I knew him as a progressive artist, and was somewhat disappointed by what I believed to be a sell-out, so I was rather reluctant to go to the concert. Well, I can tell you that, when I came out of the theatre, I was converted. RIP Maestro  . This wonderful article (a bit long, but very much worth it, even if you need to use Google Translate) was published today on the Italian newspaper I usually read: https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/e-morto-cantautore-franco-battiato-aveva-76-anni-AEt7L1J" rel="nofollow - https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/e-morto-cantautore-franco-battiato-aveva-76-anni-AEt7L1J
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 05:01
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RIP ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 06:42
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RIP ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 07:20
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Hi, I've come to grips with so many of the favorite things that we loved way back when, see the artist fall by wayside like we all surely will. The best thing, is the nice bits and pieces that everyone says, and I specially like to say that without Guy Guden and his Space Pirate Radio show, I don't think that many of us would know or care about FB. On many of the shows I had on tape (saved to mp3's 20+ years ago!) ... the music showed and its far out addition and difference, helped the show be the ultimate that it already was, and still is ... though many here on PA would scream about the lot of so much music that doesn't fit the "progressive" ideal ... it's not a show about "progressive" ... it's a foreign/alien movie without the subtitles and you get as many distance voices and styles as you do music ... and the "difference" is the part that so many love dearly! FB's albums (and I have like 5 or 6 of them) are special ... and fun to listen to. Sadly, listening to something that defies description and distinction as something like the odd ball "progressive" ... is simply not something that is worthy of a discussion at PA other than when the artist dies ... and as sad as it has been for a long time ... you get better known and remembered when you're dead! Such is life ... that we can not even celebrate it properly. But I can tell you that hearing this in 1974 and 1975 on Guy's show was very special indeed ... ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 07:39
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I see now this thrad. I post here what I've posted in the thread I've opened. Franco Battiato: E ti vengo a cercare (from Fisiognomica, 1987) Nanni Moretti: Palombella Rossa ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 16:02
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RIP ------------- 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 16:54
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Wonderful musician. One of my favorites in fact. I’ll miss him. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: May 18 2021 at 17:27
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What...? So sad news. RIP Battiato ------------- 
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Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: May 19 2021 at 03:06
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VERY sad news. His early albums are absolute GENIUS! It breaks my heart to hear this news. RIP ------------- Prog fan since 1974. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: May 19 2021 at 09:06
| Sad to hear the terrible news. May he rest in peace. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: May 19 2021 at 09:27
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RIP, thanks much to Paco, Raff and PA in general for introducing this wonderful artist to me. I did not know he was ill. I'm not an expert on his work but I love "Caffe de la Paix" from his "pop" era |
Posted By: Un Amico
Date Posted: June 11 2021 at 20:27
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Don't care much for his early and supposedly avant-garde stuff...but I think his later, pop stuff was brilliant, at least in the conceptual sense. The idea of a shiny, sleek kind of pop music with lyrics that were at the same time appealing and challenging created a sort of 'pop without guilt' sense in the listener. Battiato made Zappa and KC fans sit up and listen. Brilliant. |