Alice (Per Elisa) Explained

Italic Title:	no
Alice (Per Elisa)
Type:	album
Artist:	Alice
Cover:	Alice - Alice.jpg
Released:	1981
Recorded:	1981
Genre:	New wave, pop, synthpop, avant-pop^[1]
Length:	33:01
Label:	EMI
Producer:	Angelo Carrara
Prev Title:	Capo Nord
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Azimut
Next Year:	1982

Alice (also known as Per Elisa) is the fourth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, 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.

Track listing

Side A

"Per Elisa" (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Alice) – 3:40
"A Te..." (Alice) – 4:56
"Non ti confondere amico" (Alice) – 4:25
"Una notte speciale" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 4:14

Side B

"Non devi aver paura" (Alice) – 3:42
"Senza cornice" (Alice) – 5:30
"Momenti d'ozio" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:18
"Tramonto urbano" (Alice) – 3:16

Personnel

Alice – lead vocals
Walter Calloni – drums
Flaviano Cuffari – drums (tracks A1, B1, B3)
Paolo Donnarumma – bass guitar
Alberto Radius – guitar
Filippo Destrieri – keyboards, Fender Rhodes, synth
Salvatore Giumeno – clarinet
Franco Tangari – oboe
Hugo Heredia – saxophone
Paola Orlandi – backing vocals track A4

Production

Angelo Carrara – record producer
Franco Battiato – musical arranger
Giusto Pio – musical arranger
Enzo "Titti" Denna – sound engineer
Recorded and mixed at Radius Studio
Luciano Tallarini – graphic design
Fulvio Ventura – photography
Francesco Messina – art direction

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

Web site: 11 March 2022 . Claudio Fabretti . Alice - Le canzoni di Carla .
Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. 1982. GfK Entertainment Charts. de. 4 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211019192727/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1982. 19 October 2021.