''Il vuoto'' (Italian for "The void") is a studio album by Italian singer-songwriter
Franco Battiato
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes, a ...
, issued in 2007. Its songs have as a common theme the spiritual void.
Battiato performed the songs "Il vuoto" and "I giorni della monotonia" out of competition at the
57th edition of the
Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual ...
.
Track listing
*Music by Franco Battiato. Lyrics by
Manlio Sgalambro
Manlio Sgalambro (; 9 December 1924 – 6 March 2014) was an Italian philosopher and writer, born in Lentini.
Biography
Philosophical production
Sgalambro did not have certificates or degrees as business cards: how he became a writer of phi ...
except where noted.
# "Il vuoto" (featuring MAB) – 3:32
# "I giorni della monotonia" – 3:15
# "Aspettando l'estate" – 3:31
# "Niente è come sembra" – 3:34
# "Tiepido aprile" – 3:12
# "The Game Is Over" – 4:33
# "Era l'inizio della primavera" – 3:01
(music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...
lyrics
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (russian: Граф Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й; – ), often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most ...
)
# "Io chi sono?" – 3:30
# "Stati di gioia" – 4:46
Charts
References
2007 albums
Franco Battiato albums
Italian-language albums
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