The Art evolution Association presents “Lost Horizons” Homage to Franco Battiato by the “Guarnieri ensemble” to be held on August 13 at 20.30 in the splendid setting of the Loggiato del Sinatra in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Ispica ( Ragusa), This is one of the most beautiful places and rich in history of our Sicily, chosen not by chance: right here Franco Battiato shot his first film “Perduto amor”, whose common thread is his autobiographical story, which earned him the granting of honorary citizenship. Creator of this highly anticipated event, Maestro Giuseppe Guarnieri: «We wanted to pay a moving and sincere homage to the one who did not like to be called a teacher and celebrate his life, works, music, art and thought. The “Lost Horizons” project is a journey back in time, a musical and narrative journey that, overcoming gravitational currents, makes Franco Battiato’s unique and unmistakable artistic essence vibrate. Taking a cue from the album of the same name where the autobiographical theme of memory is intertwined with the critique of the Western world. The show travels on two fluctuating tracks between the story of the decisive and turning point of his artistic career and the pieces, the musical compositions that have marked it and then flowed into spiritual research ».
It should be emphasized that “Lost Horizons” is the third homage to the late artist. In fact, last year Art evolution presented “Mondi faraissimi” a show-concert that was one of the flagships of the “Etna on stage” festival in Zafferana Etnea. And it was on this occasion that Maestro Guarnieri had emphasized that “” Distant worlds “was the renewed version of” Invitation to travel “a show born in 2016 to pay homage to Franco Battiato living and that for 5 years was taken on tour for the entire Sicily and Battiato himself was aware of it and had expressed his approval to people close to him: “My music is available to everyone and everyone can reinterpret it.” A great satisfaction for the “Art evolution” association that has promoted this new evocative moment of great cultural depth made up of thoughts, music and words and where the protagonists in addition to the talented pianist Maestro Guarnieri who has curated orchestration and arrangements as a true frontman will be: the actor and musician Alessandro Romano (guitar and voice), the masters Teresa Lombardo (1 violin), Nadia Tidona (2 violin), Jascha Parisi (cello) and the actor and narrator Giovanni Peligra who with his vibrant and warm voice will mark the moments of this never ending story and will create an emotional contact with the audience making the show interactive. The evocative and penetrating notes of the ensemble will create a magical atmosphere and where the public will be projected on this journey, accompanied almost by the hand to discover the great Battiato. «We will start from 1983 – explains Giovanni Peligra – the year of publication of poetic and evocative“ Lost Horizons ”, one of Battiato’s most intimate albums. The constant theme is the confrontation between a modern society guilty of having removed man from contact with himself. On the one hand, Milan, an alienating metropolitan reality where Franco had now lived for 18 years and that he had been thinking about leaving for some time, and Sicily, his magical homeland, a destination to be rediscovered and rediscovered. The more loneliness increases in society, the more music becomes indispensable for him. Then we will move on to the futuristic “Distant Worlds” of 1985, a colorful fresco of how the most evolved man who rises with his intelligence and who challenges nature with the undisputed strength of science has reached and conquered the stars. We will go back to 1978 , a watershed in the life and career of Franco Battiato in which he ends his musical experimentation and begins to work on what will later be considered a kind of pop trilogy, with his unmistakable style. In the 70s his musical expression was carried out through materials sophisticated sounds, research, or in any case not very popular. Then at a certain point he began to use a language that went directly to receptive people by now to be captured by songs that are often enthralling and catchy, but with a language that is always refined and ironic. In 1988 “Physiognomy” is a decisive shift towards moments of spirituality: for the first time delicate and profound topics such as research of the sacred are faced without shame, with simplicity and poetry at the same time, the melodies are sought after and not easy to listen to “In short, narrative passages accompanied by a rich musical background where songs like” Permanent center of gravity “Cuccuruccucu”, ” The season of love ”,” The cure ”and many other successes.
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