Azimut (Alice album)

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Azimut
Alice - Azimut.jpg
Studio album by
Alice
Released1982
Recorded1982
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.

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 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

Production

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Italy (Hit Parade) [2] 13

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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.
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