Monday, December 2, 2019

CERN

Ti porto con me
segunda feira de Lisboa
nel mio antico mare
nell'Acqua occidentale,
nel Mediterraneo
affollato di navi
e corpi d'ignudi nuotatori.
Fanciulli con sguardo da fiere,
gli occhi di lince dei Braganza,
fissano il Nord.
Sognando l'oltremare,
come ghirlanda intrecciano una danza.
Trago dentro do meu coracao,
Todos lugares onde estive:
A entrada de Singapura
O coral das Maldivas
Macao da noite, a uma hora.
Segunda - feira de Lisboa,
che nome d'incanto!
Qui da noi é lunedì.
Soltanto.

CERN © 2014 Franco Battiato & Pino "Pinaxa" Pischetola

"CERN" uses lyrics from "Segunda feira." CERN is the European research organization that operates the largest particle physics lab in the world.

I carry you with me,
Lisbon Monday,
in my ancient sea,
in the Western Waters,
in the Mediterranean,
crowded with ships
and bodies of naked swimmers.
Children with proud gaze,
the eyes of the Braganza lynx,
affix the north.
Dreaming beyond the seas,
like a garland they trace out a dance.
I bring inside my heart,
all the places I've been:
the Singapore Inlet
the Maldives Coral
Macao at night, at one o'clock.
Segunda-feira,
such a name of enchantment!
Here among us it’s Monday,
merely.

English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser



Joe Patti's experimental group was released in 2014. It marks a return of the experimental, electronic-music side of Battiato, in collaboration with sound and mix engineer Pino "Pinaxa" Pischetola. Joe Patti was Battiato's maternal uncle, who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Six of the eleven tracks are instrumental only.
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