Incognito (Amanda Lear album)
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Incognito is the fifth studio album by French
singer Amanda Lear
, released in March, 1981 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contains singles "Nymphomania", "Hollywood Is Just A Dream When You're Seventeen", "Love Amnesia", "Red Tape", "New York" and "Égal". Just like 1978's Sweet Revenge
, Incognito is to a certain degree a concept album. This nine track set is loosely based on the Christian classification of vices, the seven deadly sins
, with Lear adding two vices of her own: bureaucracy and nostalgia. The track "New York" was originally recorded by composer Francis Lai and included on his 1980 album Paris, New York.
The rights to the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are currently held by Sony BMG Music Entertainment
, Incognito was released as a mid-priced compilation CD combined with 1977's I Am a Photograph
in Russia in 2001, but remains unreleased on compact disc in the rest of the world.
Side B
Side B
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
singer Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
, released in March, 1981 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contains singles "Nymphomania", "Hollywood Is Just A Dream When You're Seventeen", "Love Amnesia", "Red Tape", "New York" and "Égal". Just like 1978's Sweet Revenge
Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)
Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in February, 1978 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contained European hit singles "Follow Me", "Enigma ", "Gold" and "Run Baby Run"...
, Incognito is to a certain degree a concept album. This nine track set is loosely based on the Christian classification of vices, the seven deadly sins
Seven deadly sins
The 7 Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning fallen humanity's tendency to sin...
, with Lear adding two vices of her own: bureaucracy and nostalgia. The track "New York" was originally recorded by composer Francis Lai and included on his 1980 album Paris, New York.
The rights to the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are currently held by Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a recorded music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG...
, Incognito was released as a mid-priced compilation CD combined with 1977's I Am a Photograph
I Am a Photograph
I Am A Photograph is the debut album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in April 1977 by West German label Ariola Records. It contains the European hit singles "La Bagarre" , "Blood and Honey" , "Tomorrow", "Alphabet" and "Blue Tango." Later editions of the album also feature the single "Queen...
in Russia in 2001, but remains unreleased on compact disc in the rest of the world.
Track listing
Side A- Laziness: "Hollywood Is Just A Dream When You're Seventeen" (Hanne Haller, Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 4:50
- Indifference: "Love Amnesia" (E. Mule) - 3:45
- Bureaucracy: "Red Tape" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 3:28
- Fear: "New York" (Francis Lai, Amanda Lear) - 4:28
- Tracks 2-4: non-stop medley, total time: 11:41.
Side B
- Pride: "Égal" (a.k.a. "Ça M'est Égal") (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 3:25
- Nostalgia: "Berlin Lady" (Peter Dibbens, Mike Stepstone) - 3:22
- Greed: "Nymphomania" (P. Macabal, M. Gouty) - 3:27
- Envy: "If Was A Boy" (Walter Foini - original lyrics: Alberto Salerno - English lyrics: Amanda Lear) - 3:15
- Anger: "Made In France" (P. Jaymes, Amanda Lear) - 2:10
Alternative album editions
- 1981 South American Spanish language edition:
Side B
- "Igual" (Spanish language version of "Égal") (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear, Julio César) **
- "Dama De Berlin" (Spanish language version of "Berlin Lady") (M. Stepstone, P. Dibbens, Julio César) **
- "Ninfomanía" (Spanish language version of "Nymphomania") (P. Macabal, M. Gouty, Julio César) **
- ** Non-album version
Original liner notes
- » Walking incognito behind my dark glasses in a future world not so far away I see the deadly sins.
- Fighting to survive (it is the law of the jungle) we meet with envy, violence, greed, fear, indifference and even bureaucracy and nostalgia, this favorite sin of mine which helps to accept the future...«
- Amanda Lear 1981
- »Hell Is Who (Where) You Really Are«
- Robert SheckleyRobert SheckleyRobert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...
Personnel
- Amanda Lear - lead vocals
- Wolly Emperhoff - background vocals
- Herbert Ihle - background vocals
- Renate Mauer - background vocals
- Claudia Schwarz - background vocals
- Edit Prock - background vocals
- Angelika Tiefenböck - background vocals
- Todd Canedy - drums
- Gunter Gebauer - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Mats Björklund - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Geoff Bastow - keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, Moog - Anthony Monn - Moog
Production
- Anthony MonnAnthony MonnAnthony Monn a.k.a. Tony Monn is a German singer, composer, and record producer.Monn started his career as a singer in the German schlager genre in the early 1970s...
- record producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... - Geoff Bastow - musical arranger
- Charly Ricanek - musical arranger
- Frank (Bolzi) Von Dem Bottlenberg - sound engineer
- Piero Mannucci - mastering
- Regine de Chivré - photographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Ariola-Eurodisc Studios - designDesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
- Recorded at Arco Studios, Munich, November 1980 - February 1981
Release history
| Release format | Country | Label | Cat. No. | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl | West Germany | Ariola | 203 450-320 | 1981 |
| Cassette | West Germany | Ariola | 403 450-352 | 1981 |
| Vinyl | Italy | Ariola | ARL 3155 | 1981 |
| Vinyl | Greece | Ariola | 6483 322 | 1981 |
| Vinyl | Netherlands | Ariola | 203 450 | 1981 |
| Vinyl | Spain | Ariola | I-203450 | 1981 |
| Vinyl | Yugoslavia | RTB | 2220717 | 1981 |
Charts
| Country | Position |
|---|---|
| Norway | 19 |
| Sweden | 28 |
7"
- 1981: "Égal" / "If I Was A Boy" (West Germany - Ariola 102 969 100)
- 1981: "Égal" / "If I Was A Boy" (The Netherlands - Ariola 102 969 100)
- 1981: "Égal" / "If I Was A Boy" (Turkey - Türküola/Ariola 102 969)
- 1981: "Ça M'est Égal" / "Made In France" (France - Arabella 102296)
- 1981: "Igual" ("Égal" - Spanish language version) ** / "Ninfomanía" ("Nymphomania" - Spanish language version) ** (Spain - Ariola A-102 592 Promo)
- 1981: "Love Amnesia" / "Nymphomania" (Italy - RCA Victor PB 6511)
- 1981: "Hollywood Is Just A Dream (When You're Seventeen)" / "Égal" (Brazil - Ariola 103 472)
- 1981: "Red Tape" / "New York" (France - Arabella 102 811)
- 1981: "Nymphomania" / "Boy" ("If I Was A Boy") (Sweden - Ariola ARI 8105)
- 1982: "Igual" ("Égal" - Spanish language version) ** / "Made In France" (Chile - Ariola ARS 10.091)
- 1982: "Fever" (J. Davenport - E. Cooley) - 3:36 * / "Red Tape" (West Germany - Ariola 104 053-100)
- 1982: "Fever" * / "Red Tape" (Spain - Ariola B 104.053)
- 1982: "Fever" * / "Red Tape" (Portugal - Ariola 5104 053)
- 1982: "Fever" * / "Red Tape" (Brazil - Ariola)
- * Non-album track
- ** Non-album version
Russian "compilation" CD's
NB: Sound quality: vinyl.- I Am a Photograph / Incognito, CD Maximum, Russia.
Sources and external links
- [ Allmusic, Amanda Lear discography.]
- Discogs.com., Amanda Lear discography
- Rate Your Music, Amanda Lear discography