https://youtu.be/E_7i4hbW3Rs A seminal Italian album, a masterpiece that fuse together synthpop, rock, orchestral, new wave and progressive sounds with powerful lyrics that bring high poetry and societal issues to any listener with acute irony. With this album, in 1981 Battiato brought with detailed simplicity the absurdity of modern life, of consumerism, what we plebs would call the fiat world. Critics still valid more than 40 years after its release. But it is at the same time an ode to the richness of human nature, a declaration of love and genuine admiration for the beautiful variety and capabilities of human beings in every expression. An album impregnated with citations, a deep voyage into art and culture from all over the world that still resonates today. “And it's beautiful to get lost in this spell” (Ed è bellissimo perdersi in questo incantesimo). Grazie Franco.