Attila (album)

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Attila
Attila Mina 1979.jpg
Studio album by
Mina
ReleasedOctober 1979
Recorded1979
Studio La Basilica, Milan [1]
Genre
Length87:54
Language
Label PDU
Mina chronology
Del mio meglio n. 5
(1979)		Attila
(1979)		 Kyrie
(1980)
Singles from Attila
  1. "Anche un uomo"
    Released: March 1979 [4]

Attila is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1979 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana. [3]

Contents

Overview

The album, unlike other previously released double albums, was a novelty: it does not consist of two stand-alone albums, independent and unrelated to each other, like the "doubles" that preceded it since 1972, but is a unitary project consisting of eighteen songs divided into two discs. [3]

"Anche un uomo" was the ending theme of the TV quiz show Lascia o raddoppia? [5] written by Mike Bongiorno, Anselmo Genovese and TV personality Ludovico Peregrini. [6]

"Don't Take Your Love Away" is a cover of a song written by Isaac Hayes. The song is also the longest track recorded by Mina, at nine minutes long. The track "Un po' di più" was originally sung by Patty Pravo and included on her album Sì... incoerenza in 1972. The songs "Rock and Roll Star" and "Anche tu" were also recorded by Mina in Spanish under the titles "Estrella del rock" e "También tù", respectively. [7] At just sixteen years old, Mina's son Massimiliano Pani made his debut as a songwriter with two tracks, "Sensazioni" and "Il vento".

The album cover was created by Luciano Tallarini, on photographs of Mauro Ballets reworked with the airbrush by Gianni Ronco. The album cover won the prize for best cover of the year and is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [8] [9]

Released in October of 1979, Attila was an immediate success, rising to the second place of the Italian chart and entering the top ten most successful records of the year. [3] It is one of the best-selling albums of the singer's career. [3] [10]

In 2024, in honor of the forty-fifth anniversary of the album's release, Warner Music released a limited edition of the album on colored vinyl. Included in the reissue was a previously unpublished additional illustration of Mina by Gianni Ronco. [11]

Critical reception

Claudio Milano from OndaRock  [ it ] noted that Attila was positioned as an ambitious project, but felt that the result was weak. He cited it as the starting point in what he felt was a decline in Mina's creative path. Milano called the songs "Don't Take Your Love Away" and "Shadow of My Old Road" the most worthy on the album. [12] In 2015 Panorama magazine named Attila among the ten most fundamental albums by Mina. [13]

Track listing

Volume 1

Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Tiger Bay"Julie ScottBeppe Cantarelli6:50
2."Ma ci pensi"Nino Romano Federico Monti Arduini 4:15
3."Se il mio canto sei tu"Paola BlandiCantarelli4:23
4."Non tornerò"BlandiCantarelli6:31
Total length:21:59
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Che novità"Firmo RizziniDanidy4:54
2."Bonne nuit" Andrea Lo Vecchio Shel Shapiro 3:11
3."Sensazioni"
  • Alfano
  • Pani
4:47
4."Un po' di più" Sergio Bardotti Shapiro3:57
5."Il vento"
  • Alfano
  • Pani
  • Alfano
  • Pani
4:56
Total length:21:45

Volume 2

Side C
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Don't Take Your Love Away"Lee Hatim Isaac Hayes 9:25
2."Rock and Roll Star"Lo VecchioShapiro3:29
3."Fiore amaro"Enrico RiccardiRiccardi4:03
4."Sei metà" (featuring Beppe Cantarelli)BlandiCantarelli5:18
Total length:21:55
Side D
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Anche tu" Cristiano Minellono Cantarelli4:56
2."Street Angel"
  • Bobby Hart
  • Bobby Weinstein
Teddy Randazzo4:45
3."Che volgarità" Cristiano Malgioglio Corrado Castellari 3:41
4."Anche un uomo"
Anselmo Genovese4:48
5."Shadow of My Old Road"RizziniDanidy4:05
Total length:22:15

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Attila
Chart (1979–80)Peak
position
Italian Albums ( Billboard ) [14] 5
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [15] 2

References

  1. ↑ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Attila, Vol. 1 at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). "Regina lontana". Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. p. 38.
  4. ↑ "Anche un uomo / Se il mio canto sei tu". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Farina, Corrado (2000). Un posto al buio. ISBN   9788886312462.
  6. ↑ "Cover versions of Anche un uomo by Mina | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
  7. ↑ Mina (1959). Mina En Español (liner notes). Spain: Ariola. I-204 599. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "Una vita in copertina…Luciano Tallarini,il guru delle front! | Fotografi Napoli". Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Un volume raccoglie le copertine di Luciano Tallarini - l'Isola della Musica Italiana". Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  10. ↑ Cantarelli, Beppe. "Se Il Mio Canto Sei Tu" (in Italian). beppecantarelli.com. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  11. ↑ "Attila (Doppio Vinile Magenta e Tiffany in Edizione Limitata + Immagin". Warner Music Italy Shop (in Italian). Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  12. ↑ Milano, Claudio. "Mina - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto". OndaRock (in Italian). Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  13. ↑ Poglio, Gianni (25 March 2015). "Mina compie 75 anni: le immagini di un mito". Panorama (in Italian). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  14. ↑ Ruscitto, Germano (22 March 1980). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 92, no. 12. p. 71. ISSN   0006-2510.
  15. ↑ Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.
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