Azimut (Alice album)

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Azimut
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Studio album by Alice
Released 1982
Recorded 1982
Genre Pop, rock
Length36:46
Label EMI
Producer Angelo 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.

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Singer-songwriter musician who writes, composes and sings

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Contents

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 With The Mirrors") was written by singer-songwriter Eugenio Finardi, whose "Le ragazze di Osaka" Alice would later cover on her 1989 album Il sole nella pioggia .

Eugenio Finardi Italian singer

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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 .

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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

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