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Battiato – Sulle Corde Di Aries
Battiato
Sulle Corde Di Aries
Label: Bla Bla
Catalog Number: BBXL 10003
Released: 1973
An Italian progressive rock masterpiece, Sulle Corde Di Aries is the third solo album from Franco Battiato, who is often heralded as Italy’s answer to Brian Eno, though comparisons like that are usually only useful on a surface level. Battiato’s first solo albums explored esoteric pop and avant-folk with peculiar lyrics and analog electronics. Sulle Corde Di Aries is the most avant-garde leaning of Battiato early period with the entire A-side dedicated to “Sequenze E Frequenze,” an extended transcendental journey type track that can be compared to kosmische, ambient, or fourth world music. “Aria Di Rivoluzione” is our favorite of the bunch with its spoken word, percussion, woodwinds, and synthesizers creating a uniquely trippy atmosphere alongside Battiato’s more traditional singing.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Ambient / Experimental / Progressive Rock
Tracklist:
A Sequenze E Frequenze
B1 Aries
B2 Aria Di Rivoluzione
B3 Da Oriente A Occidente
Credits:
Art Direction [Art Director] – Sabato Calvanese
Coordinator [Coordinatori Artistici] – Giacomo Pellicciotti, Peppo Delconte
Design [Designers] – Dilva Giannelli, Mauro Perri
Engineer [Tecnico Del Suono] – Gian Luigi Pezzera*, Luciano Marioni
Guitar, Mandola, Vocals – Gianni Mocchetti
Lead Vocals [Voce Solista], Synthesizer [VCS 3], Guitar, Piano [Piano Preparato], Kalimba [Calimba] – Battiato*
Lyrics By [Testi], Music By – Franco Battiato
Narrator – Jutta Nienhaus (tracks: B2)
Oboe – Gaetano Galli (tracks: B3)
Percussion – Gianfranco D’Adda
Photography By [Fotografi] – Carlo Dezzani, Ghigo Agosti, Photo Team, Roberto Masotti, Sal Musmeci
Producer [Produttore] – Pino Massara
Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Daniele Cavallanti (tracks: B2)
Soprano Vocals – Jutta Nienhaus (tracks: A, B3), Rossella Conz (tracks: A)
Tenor Saxophone – Gianni Bedori (tracks: B1)
Violoncello – Jane Robertson* (tracks: B2)
Wind – Conservatorio di Milano
