Il sole nella pioggia

Il sole nella pioggia
Studio album by Alice
Released 1989
Recorded 1989
Genre Pop, Rock, Alternative rock
Length 42:48
Label EMI
Producer Francesco Messina
Alice chronology
Mélodie passagère
(1988)		 Il sole nella pioggia
(1989)		 Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi
(1992)

Il sole nella pioggia is the eleventh studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1989 on EMI Music.

The album, whose title translates as The Sun in the Rain, includes the single releases "Visioni" and "Il sole nella pioggia" as well as popular tracks like "Tempo senza tempo", "Le ragazze di Osaka" and the Friulian "Anìn a Grîs". Il sole nella pioggia features contributions from a number of international musicians who had previously collaborated with contemporary British artists in the alternative rock genre like Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and David Sylvian: drummer Steve Jansen and keyboardist Richard Barbieri - both former members of the band Japan, trumpeter Jon Hassell, guitarist Dave Gregory, guitarist and keyboardist Ian Maidman, Turkish flutist Kudsi Erguner as well as Italian jazz trumpeter Paolo Fresu.

"Le ragazze di Osaka" ("The Girls From Osaka") was originally recorded by the composer Eugenio Finardi and included on his 1983 album Dal blu, Finardi had previously written the track "Laura degli specchi" ("Laura of the Mirrors") for Alice, included on her 1982 album Azimut. The medieval French folk song and nursery rhyme "Orléans" (also known as "Le Carillon de Vendôme" or "Les Cloches De Vendôme") sung a cappella was originally arranged by David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and included on his 1971 debut album If I Could Only Remember My Name. The acoustic "Anìn a Grîs", which translates as "Let's Go to the Crickets" in English, is based on a poem in the Friulian language by poet Maria Grazia Di Gleria, set to music by keyboardist Marco Liverani. Il sole nella pioggia closes with the English language track "Now and Forever", a duet with Peter Hammill of British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

Five of the tracks were written by Italian composer and singer Juri Camisasca, who also wrote "Nomadi" on the 1986 album Park Hotel.

The track "Cieli del nord" was a re-recording of "Le scogliere di Dover", first released on the Japanese compilation Kusamakura in 1988.

Contents

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Il sole nella pioggia" (Juri Camisasca) - 5:08
  2. "Cieli del nord" (Alice, Marco Liverani) - 4:51
  3. "Visioni" (Juri Camisasca) - 4:38
  4. "Tempo senza tempo" (Juri Camisasca) - 4:05
  5. "Le ragazze di Osaka" (Francesco Messina, Eugenio Finardi, Luca Madonia) - 4:09
Side B
  1. "Orléans" (Traditional, arranged by David Crosby) - 1:39
  2. "Anìn a Grîs" (Maria Grazia Di Gleria, Marco Liverani) - 3:36
  3. "L'era del mito" (Juri Camisasca) - 4:33
  4. "Le baccanti" (Juri Camisasca) - 5:04
  5. "Now and Forever" (duet with Peter Hammill) (Peter Hammill) - 5:05

Personnel

Production

Sources and external links


Alice
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)