Personal computer

Mi son comprato un personal computer Ma il cuore soffre un poco di aritmia Non so come curare i reumatismi Nelle famiglie personalità Sempre in conflitto A volte anche una finta gentilezza è per litigare Quando è notte Nelle stanze d'albergo Rumori di letto Sesso meccanico Questa ginnastica Chiamata amore Innumerevoli stati d'assedio Propongono ricette per la vita Ma ho già l'astrologia babilonese Nel Medio Evo rinascimentale C'è chi cerca una liberazione E c'è chi scopre un'altra particella Quando è notte Nelle stanze d'albergo Rumori di letto Sesso meccanico E il tuo telefono è sempre occupato Personal computer © 1985 Franco Battiato & Saro Consentino "Personal computer" points to a mismatch between the advances of technology and the evolution of the human race, where technological progress leads to a devolution of society, with individuals ever more distant from each other.

I bought myself a personal computer. But my heart suffers from a little arrhythmia. I don’t know how to cure the rheumatisms in the family’s personalities. Always in conflict, sometimes even a feigned kindness is to be fought about. When it’s night in the hotel rooms, bed sounds, mechanical sex – this gymnastics called love. Innumerable states of siege propose recipes for life. But I already have the Babylonian Astrology in the medieval Rennaissance. There are those seeking a liberation and those discovering another new particle. When it’s night in the hotel rooms, bed sounds, mechanical sex, and your telephone is always busy. English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser Mondi lontanissimi was released in 1985 and was originally conceived as a sort of intergalactic fable. According to Battiato, "The far-distant worlds are the worlds of fantasy, of the planets of our constellation in which perhaps there are other forms of life that we're not able to imagine; also the interior worlds, those levels of awareness that not only can we not imagine but that we waste like the greatest treasure hidden in every individual." Giusto Pio collaborated on the arrangements and on most of the music, and also directed the Milan Symphony Orchestra, whose presence here lends warmth to what is sometimes a certain coldness in Battiato's more synth-heavy work.

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