Lucio Battisti and Lucio Dalla together for the first time on a record celebrating them. Here's “L’alba di Lucio”

Lucio Battisti and Lucio Dalla together on a record for the first time. The 7-inch single celebrating the two singer-songwriters is titled "L'alba di Lucio", available for pre-order exclusively on the Sony Music website for just two days: March 4th and 5th, dates that coincide with their birthdays – both were born in 1943, just hours apart. It's a limited, numbered edition aimed at the collectors' market. The vinyl, in a blue/lavender marble colorway, will only be available to buy online and in set quantities, a detail that reinforces its status as both a collector's item and a symbolic tribute.

The tracks

The choice of tracks brings together two emblematic titles from the two artists' respective catalogues:

• Side A: "4 marzo 1943" – Lucio Dalla
• Side B: "I giardini di marzo" – Lucio Battisti

Two songs that, despite belonging to different eras and sensibilities, mark central junctures in Italian singer-songwriter music of the 1970s.

The artwork and editorial contribution

The illustrated cover is signed by Matteo Berton, while the personalized inner sleeves build a visual narrative that links the two figures in symbolic fashion. Completing the project is a previously unpublished text by Vincenzo Mollica, dedicated to that night in early March 1943 which saw the birth, just hours apart, of two of the most influential figures in Italian song of the latter half of the 20th century.

“L’alba di Lucio” thus presents itself as a targeted editorial operation: a limited-edition celebratory object that brings together, for the first time on a single release, two catalogs that had until now remained parallel paths in Italian recording history.

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