Francesco Messina
Francesco Messina is an Italian musician, graphic designer and photographer, born in 1951, Sicilian by origin and long based in Milan. He plays keyboards, writes music and lyrics, and has designed many record covers. He is known for Prati bagnati del monte Analogo (1979), the electronic album he made with Raul Lovisoni, and for his solo record Medio Occidente (1983). Prati bagnati del monte Analogo came out on Cramps with Franco Battiato as producer, and takes its idea from René Daumal's unfinished novel Le Mont Analogue.
Le Api dell’Invisibile
Four decades after Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo, Francesco Messina returns to his hundred-year-old Schimmel piano for seven pieces of hazy drone and ambient minimalism, written with no deadlines after playing that 1979 album live in Milan.
Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo
Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina's 1979 album for Cramps, produced by Franco Battiato: Italian minimalism with synthesizer, Michele Fedrigotti's piano and a title piece inspired by René Daumal's novel Mount Analogue.
Reflex
Francesco Messina is perhaps best known for his collaboration with fellow composer Raul Lovisoni on the album Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, originally released on seminal Italian label Cramps in 1979. Along with contemporaries Franco Battiato, Jur…
Medio Occidente
**Reissued at last, a dream come true!** As we’ve said in the past, it’s a great moment for reissues of ambitious, historical gestures of Italian music. Long neglected and overlooked, one after the other these artifacts have emerged from the shadows,…