Azimut (Alice album)

Azimut
Studio album by Alice
Released	1982
Recorded	1982
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	36:46
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.

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, percussion
• 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.

External links

• Azimut at Discogs (list of releases)