*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.

Fisiognomica is an album destined to mark yet another musical turning point. It was a decisive turn toward moments of spirituality: for the first time, delicate and profound topics such as the search for the sacred were addressed without modesty, with complex simplicity and at the same time with poetry, indulged by highly sought-after melodies that were not at all aimed at easy listening. It reached No. 2 in May 1988 with 300,000 copies sold, the fifteenth best-selling album in Italy that year. All arrangements are by Franco. The lyrics Veni l'autunnu consist of one part in Sicilian and another in Arabic. The songs E ti vengo a cercare, Nomadi and L' oceano di silenzio were performed in the presence of John Paul II in a concert performed in the Sala Nervi, March 18, 1989.