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1945–2021 Italy
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes (including, but not limited to, philosophy, art, spirituality, science, introspection, innovation, esotericism, religiousness), and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, minimalism, avant-garde, progressive rock, new wave, symphonic music, sound collage, opera, oratorio and movie soundtrack.
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Morgan is not a carbon copy of the Americans or the British, but an independent thinker, and it's nice to hear him speak.
And then culture is a difficult word to interpret. We are one of those countries that has only thought about stealing.
‘’Il Gioco dell'Eroe‘’ by Gianluca Magi is a large stone thrown into a still pond. An invitation to inner life and its (inevitable) evolutionary transmutation.
I am naturally a contemplative person. Scents and the air are like a remote control that turns off the world for me.
The crisis in human beings is decisive, otherwise existence is useless. I have taken refuge in what is called metaphysics because I am someone who believes that human beings are immortal.
(Speaking of the reality show ‘'L'isola dei famosi’') I don't want to feel intelligent watching idiots, I want to feel like an idiot watching intelligent people.
(Referring to the degenerative disease that had affected Battiato) He was always Franco. He always had been, regardless of outward appearances. In fact, perhaps that day he was even more so.
The last time I saw him was in Milo in 2020. I went to visit him at his home and we spent the whole day together. They were intense moments in which words were unnecessary.
Morgan is a very knowledgeable guy, I would say a complete musician because he also has a classical background, and this helps a lot, because as the saying goes, “the more you know, the more you're worth,” and if you also have talent, as in his case, that's it.
There are storytellers from the island, such as Bufalino, Sgalambro, Tomasi di Lampedusa, who made their debut late in life. It is as if, for years, they had pointed a large telescope at the surrounding world. Then, drawing on their reserves and giving us, as Bufalino does, novels of overflowing sensuality, a Dionysian Sicily, full of flavors and colors.
The extraordinary and disastrous event, albeit pleasantly bizarre, is death. One day I will die silently, I will enter esoteric and synoptic spaces, moving in siderurgical and negotiable conditions. Farewell world, I will say then. I am dead forever.
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