Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie

Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie
Studio album by Dolcenera
Released	20 February 2009 (2009-02-20)
Recorded	June 2008 - October 2008 Sonoria Recording Plant, Prato
Genre	Pop, Rock
Length	49:07
Language	Italian
Label	Sony Music, Columbia Records
Producer	Roberto Vernetti, Dolcenera
Dolcenera chronology
Il popolo dei sogni (2006) Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie (2009) Evoluzione della specie (2011)
Singles from Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie
"Il mio amore unico" Released: 18 February 2009 "La più bella canzone d'amore che c'è" Released: 22 May 2009 "Un dolce incantesimo" Released: 7 August 2009

Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie is the fourth studio album by Italian singer Dolcenera, released on 18 February 2009.^[1] It is her first album released on Sony Music Italy.^[2] The album spawned three singles: "Il mio amore unico", "La più bella canzone d'amore che c'è" and "Un dolce incantesimo".

Background and release

Dolcenera started working on the album in 2006,^[3] and the 12 tracks were recorded between June and October 2008 in Prato.^[4] The singer revealed in an interview that she wrote more than 70 songs for the album, and that she spent two months to define the final tracklist of the album.^[5]

In December 2008, it was announced that Dolcenera would participate in the 59th Sanremo Music Festival, competing in the section "Artisti" with the song "Il mio amore unico".^[6] She later revealed that the song was not initially intended to be sung during the popular singing contest;^[7] since the album was ready to be published in the days during which the Festival took place, her recording label suggested her to promote it through the Festival.^[2]

The title of the album was revealed in early February 2009^[5] and the first single from the album, "Il mio amore unico", was performed for the first time on 17 February 2009, when it opened the competition in the San Remo Music Festival.^[8] The digital version of the album was released on 18 February 2009,^[1] while the Compact Disc edition was published two days later.^[9]

On 26 January 2010 the album was re-released in a pocket DBS version.^[10]

Title and artwork

The title of the album, Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie (in English "Dolcenera in Wonderland") is clearly inspired by Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[11] Moreover, the cover of the album represents the singer with several body painting tattoos, representing characters from the popular novel, such as the White Rabbit, and related symbols, including the four French playing card suits and a clock.^[11]

However, the title of the album was also inspired by Jeanette Winterson's book Written on the Body, published in 1992: in an interview, Dolcenera explained that the book contains the sentence "Love is Wonderland" and, since the album is mostly about love, she decided to title her album Dolcenera in Wonderland.^[11]

The album's artwork shows a significant change in Dolcenera's look: she explained that her dark-style make-up became a mask,^[12] because it represented her previous unease, but when she found out her peacefulness, she decided to stop using it.^[13]

Composition and themes

Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie is defined by Dolcenera as a "concept album about love",^[14][15] considered both as the feeling between two partners, and as a general feeling that could be able to save people, driving them to fight and to keep hoping.^[7] Talking about the album, Dolcenera also claimed that love could be the feeling able to help the Western world to find out ideas to save itself from the late-2000s crisis.^[7]

The first single from the album, "Il mio amore unico", talks about a ménage à trois, but it is also a song about a great love between a woman and an unfaithful man, described as a boy whose appearance reminds Kurt Cobain's one.^[16]

The album has a pop-rock sound, with influences from the music of the 1970s.^[16] The songs are recorded with an orchestra, in order to soften their sound.^[16] The track "Giorni d'estate" is a cover of the song "Right Next to the Right One" by Tim Christensen.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"La più bella canzone d'amore che c'è"	Dolcenera, Roberto Pacco, Lorenzo Imerico	4:22
2.	"Il mio amore unico"	Dolcenera, Saverio Lanza, Paolo Ameli, Oscar Avogadro	3:46
3.	"Un dolce incantesimo"	Dolcenera, Francesco Sighieri	4:19
4.	"Dolcemente come niente"	Dolcenera, Luca Monti
5.	"Chi decide..."	Dolcenera, Luca Chiaravalli, Stefaan Fernande, Lissette Alea	3:47
6.	"Date a Cesare"	Dolcenera	3:46
7.	"Un'emozione al giorno"	Dolcenera, Luca Chiaravalli	3:09
8.	"Come un sole splendido"	Dolcenera, Francesco Sighieri	4:35
9.	"Oltre le stelle"	Dolcenera, Francesco Sighieri	4:26
10.	"...Sei soltanto tu"	Dolcenera, L. Chiaravalli, S. Fernande, L. Alea	3:26
11.	"Giorni d'estate"	Dolcenera, Tim Christensen	3:47
12.	"Fino a domani"	Dolcenera, Piero Pelù	2:59

iTunes bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Un giorno strano"	Dolcenera, Francesco Sighieri	3:22

Commercial performance

The album debuted at the thirteenth position in the ranking of best-selling albums in Italy, with 142,000 copies in its first week of sales, and becoming the album Dolcenera to have more sales in its debut week, beating the records that will be later 2011, when Dolcenera release his fifth album "Evolution of the species." Five weeks after the album, it has been certified platinum. At the same time, the song "Il mio amore unico" can not reach the fifth place ranking of digital singles sold, with as many as 318,000 digital copies in one week. In this way, "Il mio amore unico" becomes the single most successful Dolcenera entire career, and is subsequently certified platinum for selling, on average, more than 60,000 copies. Moreover, in the fifth week of the permanence of the singles on the radio broadcast over Italian, Dolcenera up from third place, who had maintained for four non-consecutive weeks, the first position, which will keep for six consecutive weeks. In this way it can banish from the top of the single "Sincerità" by the Genoese singer Arisa, who was at the top for the past five consecutive weeks. Dolcenera becomes the woman who had a greater number of weeks spent by individuals in the most listened to Italian radio, records will be beaten in July 2010 by Shakira, who with "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)", the song that will be transmitted over the radio for nineteen consecutive weeks.

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position	Certification
Italian Albums Chart[17]	13	Platinum[18]

Personnel

Dolcenera – piano, voice, producer, arrangements Roberto Vernetti – producer, arrangements, mixing Roberto Gualdi – drums, arrangements Antonio Petruzzelli – bass, arrangements Stefano Brandoni – guitar, arrangements Francesco Sighieri – guitar, arrangements Filippo Martelli & Oversea Orchestra – strings, arrangements Saverio Lanza – bass, guitar, programming, arrangements Paolo De Francesco – artwork Leonardo Baldini – photos

Laura Masoni – photos (assistant) Andrea Carbone – body Painting Susanna Ausoni, Nicolò Cerioni – stylists Giovanna Cirillo, Diego Canicattì – hairstyle Just Cavalli – clothes Maria Grazia Bonarelli – make up Andrea Benassi – recording Francesco Baldi, Francesco Nisi – assistants Mike Marsh – mastering

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