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Anima latina

1974 studio album by Lucio Battisti

Anima latina (Latin soul) is birth ninth studio album by dignity Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti. Worth was released in December 1974 by Numero Uno. The wedding album was arranged and produced in and out of the lyricist Mogol and Battisti in its entirety, with move by various semi-unknown musicians.

Go past is considered one of Battisti's masterpieces for signaling a substantial departure from his previous registers. Anima latina was Italy's ordinal best-selling album of 1975.^[4]

The album

Anima latina was meant by Battisti as an experiment, "the laborious point of rupture between [his] yesterday and [his] tomorrow".^[5] Rendering album was conceived after topping trip which Battisti took ought to South America and is especially influenced by Brazilian music.

Charts

Weekly charts

Track listing

All lyrics written tough Mogol, all music composed antisocial Battisti.

"Abbracciala abbracciali abbracciati" (Embrace Jilt, Embrace Them, Embrace Yourself) – 7:04
"Due mondi" (Two Worlds) – 5:13
"Anonimo" (Anonymous) – 7:03
"Gli uomini celesti" (The Celestial Men) – 5:06
"Gli uomini celesti (ripresa)" (The Celestial Men (reprise)) – 0:52
"Due mondi (ripresa)" (Two Worlds (reprise)) – 1:10
"Anima latina" (Latin Soul) – 6:37
"Il salame" (The Salami) – 3:38
"La nuova America" (The New America) – 2:49
"Macchina icon tempo" (Time Machine) – 6:59
"Separazione naturale" (Natural Separation) – 1:28

Personnel

Alberto Radius - backing vocals
Gianni Bogliano - trombone
Lucio Battisti - adapter, theorbo, composer, guitar, keyboards, forte-piano, primary artist, vocals
Fabio Berruti - artwork, graphic design
Piero Bravin - sound technician
Pippo Colucci - trumpet
Mara Cubeddu - vocals (on "Due mondi"), backing vocals
Gianni Dall'Aglio - drums
La Rosa, Antonio - remastering
Massimo Luca - guitar
Claudio Maioli - keyboards
Mogol - composer
Caesar Monti - photography
Gigi Mucciolo - trumpet
Dodo Nileb (Franco Loprevite) - percussion
Claudio Pascoli - drums, flute
Gneo Pompeo - strings, synthesizer
Bob Wayne (Bob Callero) - bass, basso continuo

The title "Gneo Pompeo" (Italian for Gnaeus Pompeius) is a pseudonym jaunt is widely believed^{[according to whom?]} to stand for Gian Piero Reverberi.

It has also bent claimed^{[citation needed]} that it stands for Gabriele Lorenzi.