Azimut (Alice album)

Azimut
Studio album by
Alice
Released1982
Recorded1982
GenrePop, rock
Length36:46
LabelEMI
ProducerAngelo Carrara
Alice chronology
Alice
(1981) 		Azimut
(1982) 		Falsi allarmi
(1983)

Azimut is the fifth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1982 on EMI Music.

Singles released from the album include "Messaggio" (1982), "A cosa pensano" (1982) and "Chan-son Egocentrique" (1983), the latter a duet with Franco Battiato. The track "Messaggio" was co-written by Battiato under one of his pseudonyms, "Albert Kui". The closing track "Laura degli specchi" ("Laura of the Mirrors") is a folk-pop song written by singer-songwriter Eugenio Finardi, whose "Le ragazze di Osaka" Alice would later cover on her 1989 album Il sole nella pioggia.[1]

An alternate version of the track "La mano" appears on the 1987 album Elisir. Re-recorded versions of both "A cosa pensano" and "Chan-son Egocentrique" were included in the 2000 career retrospective Personal Jukebox.

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Azimut" (Alice) – 3:44
  2. "A cosa pensano" (Francesco Messina, Alice) – 3:42
  3. "Animali d'America" (Alice) – 4:09
  4. "Deciditi" (Alice) – 3:39
  5. "Messaggio" (Alice, Albert Kui (pseudonym for Franco Battiato), Giusto Pio) – 3:46
Side B
  1. "Principessa" (Alice) – 4:28
  2. "La mano" (Alice) – 5:35
  3. "Chan-son Egocentrique" (duet with Franco Battiato) (Franco Battiato, Francesco Messina, Tommaso Tramonti) – 3:52
  4. "Laura degli specchi" (Eugenio Finardi) – 3:51

Personnel

  • Alice – lead vocals, piano & synthesizer tracks A1, A3 & B2
  • Matteo Fasolino – keyboards, piano, synthesizer
  • Alfredo Golino – drums, percussions
  • Franco Testa – bass guitar
  • Paolo Donnarumma – bass guitar track A5
  • Claudio Bizzarri – guitar
  • Alberto Radius – guitar track A5
  • Claudio Pascoli – saxophone tracks A3 & B3
  • Giorgio Baiocco – saxophone track A5
  • Filippo Destrieri – keyboards tracks A5 & B4

Production

  • Angelo Carrara – record producer
  • Alice – musical arranger, sound engineer
  • Matteo Fasolino – musical arranger, sound engineer
  • Alfredo Golino – musical arranger, rhythm section
  • Albert Kui (Franco Battiato) – musical arranger track A5
  • Giusto Pio – musical arranger track A5
  • Eugenio Finardi – musical arranger tracks B2, B4
  • Enzo "Titti" Denna – sound engineer
  • Recorded at Stone Castle Studios except tracks A5 & B4 at Radius Studio
  • Mulino – sound mixing

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Italy (Hit Parade)[2] 13

References

  1. ^ Claudio Fabretti. "Alice - Le canzoni di Carla". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ^ Salvatori, Dario (1989). Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese. p. 217. ISBN 8876054391.