Il giardino del mago

Nocenzi wrote the music, with lyrics by him and Di Giacomo. It fills side two at 18:26, in four named sections: Passo dopo passo, Chi ride e chi geme, Coi capelli sciolti al vento and Compenetrazione; Rolling Stone Italia says it runs about twenty minutes. Nocenzi told the magazine it was conceived as one complete piece and then divided into four sections like nineteenth-century music, that the title was inspired by Vanilla Fudge's "Season of the Witch" (a claim we have from one source only), and that he wrote the theme at 3 or 4 a.m. after studying for an exam, at twenty. The recording used an uncredited string quartet, classical guitar in places, a clarinet with wah-wah, a prepared upright piano, and a Vox Continental organ recorded at half speed and then sped up on tape. On finishing the mix he said that now he could even die.

In 2020 Nocenzi recalled debating whether to go from this piece to a song-form track like "Paolo Pa", a shift some devoted fans saw as betrayal. Treccani singles out it and "R.I.P." as the audience favorites of the album. They played it in the 2022 anniversary concerts. We have no setlist.fm count, chart, video, covers or samples, and we cannot say whether our upload is the studio version.