Azimut (Alice album)

1982 studio album by Alice

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)

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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

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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

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* Alice – lead vocals, piano & synthesizer tracks A1, A3 & B2
* Matteo Fasolino – keyboards, piano, synthesizer
* Alfredo Golino – drums, percussions
* 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

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* 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

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Chart  | Peak
position

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Italy (Hit Parade)[2] | 13

## References

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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

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* Azimut at Discogs (list of releases)

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Albums|

* La mia poca grande età (as Alice Visconti - 1975)
* Cosa resta... Un fiore (as Alice Visconti - 1978)
* Capo Nord (1980)
* Alice (1981)
* Azimut (1982)
* Falsi allarmi (1983)
* Alice (1984 compilation) (Alice Visconti - 1984)
* Gioielli rubati (1985)
* Park Hotel (1986)
* Alice (1986 compilation) (1986)
* Elisir (1987)
* Kusamakura (1988)
* Mélodie passagère (1988)
* Il sole nella pioggia (1989)
* Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi (1992)
* Viaggiatrice solitaria (1995)
* Charade (1995)
* Exit (1998)
* God Is My DJ (1999)
* Personal Jukebox (2000)
* Viaggio in Italia (2003)

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