Alice (Per Elisa)

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Alice (Per Elisa)
Alice - Alice.jpg
Studio album by
Alice
Released1981
Recorded1981
Genre New wave, pop, synthpop, avant-pop [1]
Length33:01
Label EMI
Producer Angelo Carrara
Alice chronology
Capo Nord
(1980)		Alice (Per Elisa)
(1981)		 Azimut
(1982)
Alternative cover
Alice - Alice (Per Elisa).jpg
Per Elisa

Alice (also known as Per Elisa) is the fourth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1981 on EMI Music.

Contents

The album includes Alice's winning entry in the 1981 Sanremo Music Festival, "Per Elisa", and the Alice album was released under that title in certain territories, then also with alternative cover art. The track "Una notte speciale" was released as the follow-up single to "Per Elisa".

An alternate version of "Una notte speciale" appears on the 1987 album Elisir . A re-recorded version of "Per Elisa" was included in the 2000 career retrospective Personal Jukebox .

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Per Elisa" (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Alice) – 3:40
  2. "A Te..." (Alice) – 4:56
  3. "Non ti confondere amico" (Alice) – 4:25
  4. "Una notte speciale" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 4:14
Side B
  1. "Non devi aver paura" (Alice) – 3:42
  2. "Senza cornice" (Alice) – 5:30
  3. "Momenti d'ozio" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:18
  4. "Tramonto urbano" (Alice) – 3:16

Personnel

Production

Charts

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References

  1. ↑ Claudio Fabretti. "Alice - Le canzoni di Carla" . Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Alice – Per Elisa" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Alice – Per Elisa". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1982. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
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