Battista Lena - I Cosmonauti Russi (2020)

An incredible cast for this double Album with both Italian and French versions released on 2002 for the French label "Label Bleu" and remastered in 2020:
The voices of Gianmaria Testa, Arthur H, Rokia Traoré and Maria Pia De Vito.
The terrifying voiceover of Laura Betti, the magic trumpet of Enrico Rava, the inimitable clarinet of Gabriele Mirabassi and the thundering accordion of Luciano Biondini.
And also Giampaolo Casati, Luca Bulgarelli, Marcello Di Leonardo and the 60 elements of the Banda and Choir Bonaventura Somma conducted by Paolo Scatena.The music by Battista Lena and the words and lyrics by Marco Lodoli.

The space adventure was the haughty and comely side of the Soviet system, and the names of the heroes of the Star City adorn the picture books of more than a generation of Western children and adolescents.
The Italian poet Marco Lodoli imagined a cosmic reverie, the last interstellar journey of a few lost cosmonauts, with the collapse of the greatest utopia of the 20th century in the background.
Ironic and light, in a way in gravitation, the booklet of this jazz opera proposes to place the end of this fresco from the point of view of the infinitely large, to take a little height and to celebrate the derisory of this immense human adventure .
It took Battista Lena's lyricism to give the whole epic and offbeat breath of powerful and generous music.