Franco Battiato - Genesi CD (album) cover   Franco Battiato
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stars Battiato was already in the 80s at the end of the 70s. As
an artist always in advance respect to his times he is out of
the 80s in 1987.  After a number of artsy pop-oriented albums,
some of them quite poor even if good enough for the period, he
unexpectedly releases a sort of avant-opera inspired to the
first book of the Bible, not to Phil Collins & co.  As usual in
the opera the first track is a suite which introduces the main
musical themes that will come later. "Introduzione: Atto primo"
is mainly ambient music but played by a symphonic orchestra
instead of by synths, with more than a touch of krautrock. It's
like he has realized to have collected enough money from his pop
period and now can return to the experimental music that he
likes. Who knows his first albums (before La Voce Del Padrone)
knows what I mean. So forget the