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Following the release of “Kum – Intertwined Paths with Franco Battiato” in vinyl and digital formats—which inaugurated the discographic collaboration between Miraloop, Artist Records, and the Giusto Pio Foundation dedicated to Maestro Giusto Pio—the complete digital edition of “Alla Corte di Nefertiti” is now available, as originally released in 1988, together with “Frammenti”, “Per un altro futuro (part 1)”, and “Per un altro futuro (part 2)”.

Kum – Intertwined Paths with Franco Battiato was the project that set everything in motion, a double LP that brought together four key works from Giusto Pio’s career during his collaboration with Battiato: “Rappel” (1978), “Alla Corte di Nefertiti” (1988), “MeDea” (1991), and “A.D.A.M. Ubi Es” (1993), introducing the public to three previously unreleased works by the Maestro. The collection is currently available as a 33" double vinyl.

Now, Alla Corte di Nefertiti returns in digital format, just as it was originally published in 1988 by L’Ottava, the record label founded by Franco Battiato. The album includes the original suite “Alla Corte di Nefertiti”, along with “Frammenti”, “Per un altro futuro (part 1)”, and “Per un altro futuro (part 2)”—works that, after many years, are finally seeing the light once again.

This marks an important recovery effort by the Bologna- and Vicenza-based label in collaboration with the Associazione Studi Giusto Pio, an endeavor that began with Kum and continues with the mission to preserve and share the Maestro’s legacy. This includes not only newly assembled collections of his work but also the reissue of previously released masterpieces, such as the stunning suite Alla Corte di Nefertiti, now made available on all major streaming platforms. Notably, all four compositions in this release have been carefully restored and remastered using the original tapes of the composer.

Giusto Pio writes:

“Toward the end of the 1980s, after returning from Milan to Castelfranco Veneto and stepping back from my activities with Franco, I resumed studying, composing, and creating new sounds using equipment based on ‘frequency programming,’ spanning from the origins of sound exploration to its latest developments.”

“Alla Corte di Nefertiti was composed in 1988 and marks my return to sound experimentation, the very foundation of Motore Immobile, though here in a less stylized and austere form. My intention was to create a kind of journey into the unconscious, inspired by the deep impressions, suggestions, and emotions I experienced while attending the meetings with Thomasson alongside Franco, and while trying to look inward. Musically, I wanted to give each part a distinct rhythm, so that, as in my more recent Dolomiti Suite, the music seems to fly, to move in circles, evoking a sensation of instability. Milo Bianca, an abstract painter I greatly admire, created six large panels inspired by this album.”

“It was again Franco who funded the publication of Alla Corte di Nefertiti through his publishing house, L’Ottava.
The title is not only a tribute to Egypt Before the Sands, but also relates to our shared research into sound textures—an area that Franco explored in that composition and that I had been delving into since my earliest musical studies.”

The original subtitle of the composition—ultimately omitted at the time of its 1988 release—was:
“Astral counterpoints in frequencies and colors over time. Each color observes its own metronomic value, though autonomous, in harmonic symbiosis.”

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