Cristicchi and Amara from 19 June on tour from Verona with “We will be back again”, mystical concert for Battiato

photo by Giorgio Amendola

ROME – A musical journey in search of the essence in the confusion of modernity, a rapture – mystical and sensual – so necessary in this time in which we live. IS “We will come back again”mystical concert for Battiato, the new and extraordinary project by Simone Cristicchi and Amara, organized by International Music and Arts.Inspired by the mystical repertoire of the great Maestro, the two artists, for the first time together on stage, perform with grace and respect of the spiritual messages that made his work immortal.

An opportunity to rediscover a precious heritage, in one brand new arranged look from the Maestro Valter Sivilotti. Anticipated by date zero this evening, June 15, to Salsomaggiore (Summer Arena), the tour – to which new dates will be added – is presented in first national team the June 19 to Verona (to the Roman theater for the Beauty Festival), to continue the July 5th to Rome (Casa del Jazz, for Concerts in the Park); the July 9 in Fontanelle locality (for RisorgiMarche, between the municipalities of Sarnano and Amandola); the July 16 to Azzano Decimo (Music Fair); on 11 August to Sirolo (Arena Parco Repubblica) and the August 28 to Torre Del Lago (Giacomo Puccini Grand Open Air Theater).

Few are the artists like Franco Battiato, capable with their works of “sewing” earth and sky, reaching the rare harmony capable of awakening and caressing the soul. Pilgrim of the Absolute and revolutionary of music, he has left an inestimable heritage, in which a profound spiritual tension is combined with the song form: from universal prayer The shadow of the Light to the poignant The curepassing through And I come to look for you as far as We will come back againhis last recorded piece and not surprisingly the title chosen for the concert.

“It is the freedom that I have always admired in Battiato,” he reveals Simone Cristicchi. “I owe him a lot, I owe a lot to his infinite grace, to his way of conceiving art as a” mission “to help the growth and spiritual evolution of his contemporaries. Battiato is a point of no return: there is a before and after him, no one else. He was the only cantor of a divine who never knew about incense and sacristies. With this project I feel the emotion and the privilege of interpreting his mystical repertoire together with Amara, and immerse myself even more deeply in those messages that cross the boundaries of time “.

“Traveling in the awareness of Battiato’s clear conscience was like pushing myself beyond the boundaries, rising to new frequencies, other codes, other certainties, high visions of the Self and the surrounding reality”, he underlines Amara. “A radical transmutation, I would say, for those like me who are looking for truth and new horizons to cross. Thanks to Franco, I realized that it is only by going beyond oneself that we can reach that “permanent center of gravity” that we seek so much “.

The Maestro accompanied the two artists on stage Valter Sivilotti on the piano and the soloists of the Naonis Academy of Pordenone (Lucia Clonfero, Igor Dario, Alan Dario, UT Gandhi, Franca Drioli). Some readings from the masters who influenced Battiato’s thought alternate the execution of the pieces: Rumi, Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Willigis Jager and the theologian Guidalberto Bormolini.

“Getting close to a giant like Battiato is not an easy task. Simone Cristicchi and Amara have the depth of mind necessary to successfully face this challenge, ”he says Franz Cattini, founder of IMARTS and historical manager of Franco Battiato. The mystical concert “We will return again”, far from a sterile celebration, aims to become a musical liturgy, on the trail of the unfathomable mystery of Being before the Divine.

Cristicchi and Amara from 19 June on tour from Verona with “We will be back again”, mystical concert for Battiato