Alice is the fourth studio album by Italian

Italy

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Alice

Alice (Italian singer)

Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...

, released in 1981 on EMI Music.

The album includes Alice's winning entry in the 1981 Sanremo Music Festival, "Per Elisa", and the Alice album was released under that title in certain territories, then also with alternative cover art. The track "Una notte speciale" was released as the follow-up single to "Per Elisa".

An alternate version of "Una notte speciale" appears on the 1987 album Elisir. A re-recorded version of "Per Elisa" was included in the 2000 career retrospective Personal Jukebox

Personal Jukebox (Alice album)

Personal Jukebox is a compilation album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 2000 on WEA/Warner Music.In the Spring of 2000 Alice returned to the Sanremo music festival, nineteen years after the victory with "Per Elisa"...

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Track listing

Side A

1. "Per Elisa" (Franco Battiato
   Franco Battiato
   Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
   
   , Giusto Pio, Alice
   Alice (Italian singer)
   Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...
   
   ) – 3:40
2. "A Te..." (Alice, Franco Battiato
   Franco Battiato
   Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
   
   , Giusto Pio) – 4:56
3. "Non ti confondere amico" (Alice, Franco Battiato
   Franco Battiato
   Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
   
   , Giusto Pio) – 4:25
4. "Una notte speciale" (Alice, Franco Battiato
   Franco Battiato
   Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
   
   , Giusto Pio) – 4:14

Side B

1. "Non devi aver paura" (Alice) – 3:42
2. "Senza cornice" (Alice, Franco Battiato
   Franco Battiato
   Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
   
   , Giusto Pio) – 5:30
3. "Momenti d'ozio" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:18
4. "Tramonto urbano" (Alice, Franco Battiato
   Franco Battiato
   Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
   
   , Giusto Pio) – 3:16

Personnel

• Alice
  Alice (Italian singer)
  Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...
  
   – lead vocals
• Walter Calloni – drums
  Drum kit
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• Flaviano Cuffari – drums tracks A1, B1, B3
• Paolo Donnarumma – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Alberto Radius – guitar
  Guitar
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• Filippo Destrieri – keyboard instruments, OBX, Fender, Roland, EMS
• Salvatore Giumeno – clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  
• Franco Tangari – oboe
  Oboe
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• Hugo Heredia – saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Paola Orlandi – backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
   track A4

Production

• Angelo Carrara – record producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Franco Battiato
  Franco Battiato
  Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
  
   – musical arranger
• Giusto Pio – musical arranger
• Enzo "Titti" Denna – sound engineer
• Recorded and mixed at Radius Studio
• Luciano Tallarini – graphic design
  Graphic design
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• Fulvio Ventura – photography
  Photography
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• Francesco Messina – art direction