*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 sound journeys that in just 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.

Orizzonti Perduti is an album composed of eight pieces, all very short, similar in their verse and refrain structure, supported solely by electronic instrumentation. The cover depicts Franco in an unusually concrete, material moment of reflection. The lyrics are imbued with a magical realism overlaid with the icy precision of synthesizers. The constant theme is the confrontation between an alienating metropolitan reality, the Milan where Franco lived for many years now and which he pondered leaving, and Sicily, magical homeland, a destination to be found again.