Franco Battiato

*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 the memory of the Italian public. Franco Battiato's creations have never been “simple” songs but true sonic journeys that in a few minutes take the listener to discover cultures of faraway places, mysticism, philosophy, fragments of memories, quotations high and low. Each song by this great and unique artist contains so many links to other worlds as to leave one stunned. With a special feature: the extraordinary ability of Our Lord to always zero in on melodies that immediately get in your bloodstream, that once you hear them, they never leave you.

Mondi Lontanissimi is Franco Battiato's fourteenth studio album and turns 40 years old. The album, anticipated by the two singles No Time No Space/Il re del mondo and Via Lattea/L'animale, reached No. 3 in the charts and was the 23rd best-selling album in Italy during the year 1985. The song Il Re Del Mondo, previously released on L'Era del Cinghiale Bianco, features an arrangement recorded for the English-language album Echoes of Sufi Dances. Chan-son egocentrique and I treni di Tozeur had been recorded as a duet with Alice; on this album they are sung by Battiato alone.