Lotus (Elisa album)

Lotus
Studio album by Elisa
Released	November 14, 2003 (2003-11-14)
Genre	Acoustic [1]
Length	78:20
Language	English Italian
Label	Sugar
Producer	Elisa Pasquale Manieri
Elisa chronology
Elisa (2002) Lotus (2003) Pearl Days (2004)
Singles from Lotus
"Broken" Released: October 24, 2003

Lotus is the fourth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Elisa, released on November 14, 2003 by Sugar Music. Initially intended as a live album, ^[2] Lotus became a mixed record containing six new songs, seven re-recorded greatest hits from previous albums and three cover songs. The album is predominantly acoustic; following the initial idea.

The album opens with a cover version of Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" from his 1984 album Various Positions . "Sleeping in Your Hand", "Labyrinth" and "The Marriage" are taken from the singer's 1997 debut album Pipes & Flowers , while "Gift" and "Luce (tramonti a nord est)" are from her second album Asile's World , and "Rock Your Soul" and "Stranger" are from her third album Then Comes the Sun . All of them were revisited in acoustic version. Other cover songs include "Femme Fatale" from The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico and "Almeno tu nell'universo" by Italian singer Mia Martini.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Hallelujah"	Leonard Cohen	Cohen	7:26
2.	"Rock Your Soul"	Elisa Toffoli	Toffoli	4:52
3.	"Broken"	Toffoli	Toffoli	4:20
4.	"Femme fatale"	Lewis Reed	Reed	4:40
5.	"Sleeping in Your Hand"	Toffoli Catherine Marie Warner	Toffoli Corrado Rustici	5:46
6.	"Labyrinth" (lyrics: Elisa, Warner)	Toffoli Warner	Toffoli	4:56
7.	"Beautiful Night"	Toffoli	Toffoli	5:37
8.	"Almeno tu nell'universo"	Bruno Lauzi	Maurizio Fabrizio	4:53
9.	"Electricity"	Toffoli	Toffoli	4:10
10.	"The Marriage"	Toffoli	Toffoli	4:34
11.	"Yashal"	Toffoli	Toffoli	5:28
12.	"Stranger"	Toffoli	Toffoli	4:39
13.	"Luce (tramonti a nord est)"	Toffoli Zucchero Fornaciari	Toffoli	4:27
14.	"Gift"	Toffoli	Toffoli	3:58
15.	"Interlude"	Toffoli	Toffoli	3:43
16.	"A Prayer"	Toffoli	Toffoli	4:35

Certifications

The album was certified four-times platinum in Italy with more than 400,000 copies sold.

References

1. "Elisa, L'anima vola". Pop Topoi (in Italian). Retrieved 6 January 2020. la perfezione acustica di Lotus
2. Elisa: Lotus