Stefano Battaglia plays both piano and prepared piano (sometimes
simultaneously) in a highly attractive double-album program that
includes his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations as well as
two versions of the Arabic traditional song Lamma Bada Yatathanna. The
melodic and texturally-inventive pieces, some of almost hypnotic allure,
were recorded both in concert and in closed doors sessions at the
Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, Italy, in May 2016, and subsequently
arranged into what Battaglia describes as a wonderful new shape with a
completely new dramaturgy by producer Manfred Eicher.
