- Elisir
Infobox Album |
Name = Elisir
Type =album
Artist = Alice
Cover size =
Caption =
Released = 1987
Recorded = 1987
Genre = Pop, Rock
Length = 37:13
Label = EMI
Producer = Francesco Messina
Reviews =
Chronology =
Last album = "Park Hotel"
(1986)
This album = "Elisir"
(1987)
Next album = "Kusamakura "
(1988)"Elisir" is the ninth studio album by Italian
singer-songwriter Alice, released in late 1987 onEMI Music .The album was recorded after the 1986/1987 European "Park Hotel" concert tour and includes new interpretations of six songs from the singer's earlier repertoire as performed on the tour, as well as the previously unreleased "Nuvole" ("Clouds") and a cover version of
John Lennon andPaul McCartney 's "The Fool on the Hill ", released as the album's lead single. The "Elisir" album whose title translates as "Elixir " was a commercial success in bothContinental Europe andScandinavia and was later awarded the prizeGoldene Europa for sales on the West German market.The track "Hispavox" was first released as "Rumba Rock" on the 1980 album "Capo Nord".
"Elisir" was released with a revised track list under the title "
Kusamakura " in Japan in 1988, then also including tracks from 1986's "Park Hotel" as well as the previously unreleased recording "Le Scogliere di Dover".Both "Il Vento Caldo Dell'Estate" and "I Treni Di Tozeur" were again re-recorded and included on the 2000 career retrospective "Personal Jukebox".
Track listing
;Side A
#"Nuvole" (Alice, Tuni, Francesco Messina) - 5:13
#* Previously unreleased recording.
#"Il Vento Caldo Dell'Estate" (1987 version) (Franco Battiato , Giusto Pio, Francesco Messina, Alice) - 4:26
#* Original version appears on 1980 album "Capo Nord".
#"Notte A Roma" (1987 version) (Alice) - 4:14
#* Original version appears on 1983 album "Falsi Allarmi ".
#"Hispavox" (Alice, Giusto Pio) - 5:03
#* Original version entitled "Rumba Rock" appears on 1980 album "Capo Nord".;Side B
#"I Treni Di Tozeur " (1987 solo version) (Franco Battiato, Saro Cosentino, Giusto Pio) - 4:23
#* Original duet version withFranco Battiato released as single in 1984.
#"The Fool on the Hill " (John Lennon ,Paul McCartney ) - 3:32
#* Previously unreleased recording
#"Una Notte Speciale" (1987 version) (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) - 4:40
#* Original version appears on 1981 album "Alice", also known as "Per Elisa".
#"La Mano (1987 version) (Alice) - 5:42
#* Original version appears on 1982 album "Azimut".Personnel
* Alice -
lead vocals ,keyboard instrument s
* Curt Cress - drums,percussion instrument s
* Filippo Destrieri - keyboards,computer anddrum machine
* Michele Fedrigotti - keyboards,Korg digital piano ,synthesizer bass
* Marco Guarnerio - acoustic and electricguitar s
* Francesco Messina - keyboardprogramming
* Marco Liverani - keyboardsProduction
* Francesco Messina -
record producer ,musical arranger
* Marco Liverani - musical arranger
* Marco Guarniero - collaborator musical arrangements
* Michele Fedrigotti - musical supervisor
* Benedict Tobias Fenner -sound engineer
* Mixed by Benedict Tobias Fenner except "Notte a Roma" mixed by Marco Guarnerio
* Recorded and mixed at Logic StudioMilan in September and October 1987
* CDG Milano -digital editing
* Mastered atAbbey Road Studios ,London
* Polystudio & EMI Creative Service - cover design
* Gik Piccardi - coverphotography
* Gioi Ardessi -make-up
* Alessandro Paderni - tour photography
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