Stefano Battaglia - Pelagos

Stefano Battaglia plays both piano and prepared piano (sometimes simultaneously) in a highly attractive double-album programme 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.