Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato (1945 to 2021) was a Sicilian musician who moved through more worlds than most artists visit in several lifetimes. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ideas, he began in the early 1970s as a minimalist and experimental composer, whose albums Fetus, Pollution and the abstract Clic combine avant-garde minimalism, experimental rock and popular forms into a strange hybrid, with Kraut-like passages and concept-album themes of birth and rebirth.
Energie
Giuni Russo's 1981 CGD album, produced with Franco Battiato and Alberto Radius and arranged by Battiato and Giusto Pio: electronics, experimental pop and avant-garde singing, remastered on 180g yellow vinyl.
The Jolly Story 1967
Francesco Battiato was born on 23 March, 1945, in Jonia, a small town in the province of Catania. After attending the secondary school he moved to Milan to seek his fortune as a musician, but without any significant results during the first years. Gi…
La Voce Del Padrone (LP)
Original 1981 edition on EMI of Battiato's smash-hit album of great and unusual synth-pop. With matte sleeve and original innersleeve.
Giubbe Rosse (2LP)
1989 double live set in which besides the 80's hits Battiato revisits some pieces from his earlier experimental period from albums like Sulle Corde Di Aries and Clic. Original and only Italian edition on EMI.
Legione Straniera (LP)
Original and only 1982 edition on EMI of the classic groovy classical/synthpop album by Battiato's teacher and violin player with heavy involvement of the experimental/pop composer. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD. With original innersleeve.
Milva E Dintorni (LP)
Rare orgiginal 1985 debut LP on Supporti Fonofrafici by one of the best Italian minimal/synth wave bands.
Genesi (Opera In Tre Atti)
Genesi (Opera in Tre Atti)" is a three-act opera composed by Franco Battiato, premiered at the Teatro Regio in Parma on April 26, 1987. This release captures the live recording from subsequent performances in late April and early May 1987, released o…
M.elle Le "Gladiator"
Edition of 300 copies, white vinyl. In the sprawling catalog of Franco Battiato's remarkable career, certain artifacts remain tantalizingly out of reach—works that slip between the cracks of official discographies yet represent crucial moments in the…
Feed Back
*Limited edition of 500 copies, handmade numbered edition.* Nearly half a century after its original release, Franco Battiato's seminal 1976 compilation Feed Back is receiving its first faithful vinyl reissue as a lavish double LP set. This collector…
Sulle corde di Aries
*2025 repress. 300 copies limited edition* 1973’s Sulle Corde Di Aries was Franco Battiato's third release and showed his fascination for electronic, minimalist and systemic musics, as well as his third chapter in Battiato’s foray into esoteric pop. …
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Come Un Cammello In Una Grondaia
*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in t…
Orizzonti Perduti
*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in t…
Fisiognomica
*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in t…
Mondi Lontanissimi
*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in t…
Patriots
*2025 stock* Franco Battiato's 1980 album Patriots, his first for the major multinational company EMI, found him moving to more of a synth-based pop/rock sound, the better to create stirring anthems like the opening track, "Up Patriots to Arms." The …
L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco
*2025 stock* L'Era del Cinghiale Bianco (The White Boar Era) marks the clamorous Pop turning point of Franco Battiato. Created with the fundamental help of violinist Giusto Pio, this work is widely considered a masterpiece, and in 1979 it changed the…
KUM - Percorsi intrecciati con Franco Battiato
300 copies. Double LP, gatefold cover + inserts. After Juke Box (1977), between September 1978 and March 1979, the inseparable Giusto Pio and Franco Battiato committed to three pieces that should be interpreted as a single work since they both pursue…
Clic
CD edition. There is no figure in Italian music, nor within the country’s shimmering, expansive avant-garde, who demands the respect and awe offered to Franco Battiato. He is the beginning and the end. An artist whose output, stretching across six de…
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Pollution
Franco Battiato's wonderfully lively 1973 concept album Pollution is an audaciously psychedelic album drawn from the space rock dimension with good portions of electronics and keyboard layers. Drawing heavily on the VCS3 synthesizer, Battiato and com…
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Fetus
Franco Battiato moved into the 1970s on the crest of the progressive rock wave. This 1972 impossibly strange record inhabits that nether world of pop music, electronics, politics and experimental rock. Fetus is an album beyond all definition. It's a …
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Vietato Ai Minori Di 18 Anni?
Limited Time Offer Deluxe ltd. ed. LP edition with original gatefold cover artwork and 180 gr. Clear Red Vinyl. One of the best italian progressive rock/experimental album released in Italy "Vietato ai minori di 18 anni?" is Jumbo's third album from …
l'Egitto prima delle Sabbie
*White vinyl repress* Mindblowing! The last album of what could be called Franco Battiato's "experimental prog" period, L'Egitto Prima Delle Sabbie consists of two sidelong compositions strictly arranged for piano only, without any vocals; and even m…
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Juke Box
*White vinyl repress* The highly neglected record by Franco Battiato! Originally intended as the soundtrack for TV movie 'Brunelleschi', it was rejected — allegedly, for being "not appropriate enough". Their loss. It is also the first official colla…
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Franco Battiato, Nucleus (Book)
Absolutely recommended. Photographs by Roberto Masotti, texts by Carlo Maria Cella, Silvia Lelli, Luca Scarlini. This is the third volume dedicated to musicians-composers that Masotti has collected for and with the publisher Seipersei after those ded…
Area Di Servizio
* Clear red vinyl edition * "Area di Servizio" is a truly unique release in the history of ‘70s Italian music: a record consisting of twelve Italian-sung compositions, mainly the result of the collaboration between Riccardo “Rolli” Pirolli and Franco…
Franco Battiato
Temporary nicer price * * 45th Anniversary Edition, 180 gr. Red Vinyl * *Franco Battiato also known as "Za" was the first album for Ricordi, and the Franco Battiato's conceptualism becomes very rigorous and authoritative. It is made of two long track…
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Foetus
* Limited clear Green vinyl edition / Silver laminated cover* English language version! Fetus, housed in a outrageous cover (reproducing a foetus) was definitely a prog album, but a very original one, with a minimalist sound mainly based on the use o…
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La Convenzione / Paranoia (7")
* 2021 Stock. * Pollution from 1972 is the captivating follow-up to Fetus. Like its predecessor, the album features Baroque textures, motorik rhythms, weird tape effects and Franco Battiato’s perfectly oblique vocals, with a minimalist sound mainly b…
La Voce Del Padrone (40th Anniversary) LP
* Black vinyl, 180 gr. LP with printed inner * The turning-point of Franco Battiato's career: from uncompromising experimentation and progressive electronica to catchy melodies and refrains. The transition had already begun with L'era del cinghiale b…
Za
This is another one of Franco Battiato's amazing recordings from the 70's, and it features two extended pieces -- "ZA" and "Café Table Musik". "Za" is a long piece for solo piano, with lots of spare minimal moments, and haunting trancelike lines of c…
Vietato ai minori di 18 anni
* Gatefold cardboard cover with 12-page booklet (photos, lyrics and liner notes in Italian and English) * One of the best italian progressive rock/experimental album released in Italy "Vietato ai minori di 18 anni?" is Jumbo's third album from 1973, …
