Personal Jukebox is a compilation album by Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 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 2000 on WEA/Warner Music.

In the Spring of 2000 Alice returned to the Sanremo music festival

Festival della canzone italiana

The Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo is a popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo, in Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs...

, nineteen years after the victory with "Per Elisa". The song she performed, Juri Camisasca's "Il giorno dell'indipendenza" ("The Day of Independence"), was also the opening track on the career retrospective Personal Jukebox, alongside two other new recordings, "Tutto è niente" ("All Is Nothing") and an Italian language cover version of David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

/Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group

The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...

's "This is Not America

This Is Not America

"This Is Not America" is a song from the soundtrack for the film The Falcon and the Snowman.The track is the result of a collaboration between the jazz fusion Pat Metheny Group and rock singer David Bowie who provided the lyrics and vocals....

" with new lyrics by the singer herself.

Personal Jukebox also contains four singles from Alice's then most recent pop albums Exit

Exit (Alice album)

Exit is the fourteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1998 on WEA/Warner Music.After the musically experimental and lyrically introspective albums Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi and Charade Alice released Exit in 1998, her most pop-oriented and melodic studio album since the...

(1998) and Charade

Charade (Alice album)

Charade is the thirteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in late 1995 on WEA/Warner Music.After a three year long artistic and legal dispute with her label EMI Music Alice signed with WEA in 1995 and then released her first studio album since 1992's Mezzogiorno sulle...

(1995), the original versions of "In viaggio sul tuo viso" from 1992's Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi

Mezzogiorno Sulle Alpi

Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi is the twelfth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1992 on EMI Music.Three years after the commercial success of Il sole nella pioggia Alice returned to the music scene with her most mature and complex work to date, exploring genres like experimental...

and "Visioni" from 1989's Il sole nella pioggia

Il Sole Nella Pioggia

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...

licensed from EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

, as well as new interpretations of some of her best-known songs from the 1980s, among them "Chan-son Egocentrique" (a duet with Italian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Bluvertigo

Bluvertigo

Bluvertigo is an Italian band formed in 1992. Their first name was "Golden Age" and former members are Morgan , Andy and Marco Pancaldi...

), "Prospettiva Nevski", "A Cosa Pensano", "Nomadi", "Il vento caldo dell'estate", a technofied take on "Per Elisa" and an orchestral solo version of "I treni di Tozeur

I Treni Di Tozeur

"I treni di Tozeur" is an Italian song, written by Franco Battiato, Rosario Cosentino and Giusto Pio. It was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, performed in Italian by Alice and Franco Battiato.In a studio version sung only by Battiato, the song was later to be included on his...

".

Track listing

1. "Il giorno dell'indipendenza" (Juri Camisasca) - 3:44
   • Previously unreleased
2. "For This Is Not America" (Italian version of "This Is Not America
   This Is Not America
   "This Is Not America" is a song from the soundtrack for the film The Falcon and the Snowman.The track is the result of a collaboration between the jazz fusion Pat Metheny Group and rock singer David Bowie who provided the lyrics and vocals....
   
   ") (David Bowie
   David Bowie
   David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
   
   , Pat Metheny
   Pat Metheny
   Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
   
   , Alice
   Alice (Italian singer)
   Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...
   
   ) - 3:57
   • Previously unreleased
3. "Tutto è niente" (Alice) - 3:34
   • Previously unreleased
4. "Open Your Eyes" (duet with Skye
   Skye Edwards
   Skye Edwards is a British singer-songwriter, born in East London. Her career began in 1994 when she and the Godfrey brothers formed the band Morcheeba, which released five albums with Skye as lead vocalist...
   
    of Morcheeba
   Morcheeba
   Morcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...
   
   ) (Juri Camisasca, Peter Hammill
   Peter Hammill
   Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano...
   
   , Alice, Francesco Messina) - 4:08
   • From 1998 album Exit
     Exit (Alice album)
     Exit is the fourteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1998 on WEA/Warner Music.After the musically experimental and lyrically introspective albums Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi and Charade Alice released Exit in 1998, her most pop-oriented and melodic studio album since the...
     
     
5. "Dimmi di sì" (Alice) - 4:10
   • From 1998 album Exit
     Exit (Alice album)
     Exit is the fourteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1998 on WEA/Warner Music.After the musically experimental and lyrically introspective albums Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi and Charade Alice released Exit in 1998, her most pop-oriented and melodic studio album since the...
     
     
6. "Dammi la mano amore" (Remix) (with Trey Gunn
   Trey Gunn
   Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...
   
   ) (Alice) - 3:51
   • From 1995 album Charade
     Charade (Alice album)
     Charade is the thirteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in late 1995 on WEA/Warner Music.After a three year long artistic and legal dispute with her label EMI Music Alice signed with WEA in 1995 and then released her first studio album since 1992's Mezzogiorno sulle...
     
     
7. "Chanson Egocentrique" (2000 version - duet with Bluvertigo
   Bluvertigo
   Bluvertigo is an Italian band formed in 1992. Their first name was "Golden Age" and former members are Morgan , Andy and Marco Pancaldi...
   
   ) (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...
   
   , Francesco Messina, Tommaso Tramonti) - 3:52
   • Original duet version with 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...
     
      appears on 1982 album Azimut
     Azimut (Alice album)
     Azimut is the fifth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1982 on EMI Music.Singles released from the album include "Messaggio" , "A cosa pensano" and "Chan-son Egocentrique" , the latter a duet with Franco Battiato. The track "Messaggio" was co-written by Battiato under one...
     
     
8. "In viaggio sul tuo viso" (Francesco Messina, Alice) - 4:06
   • Includes "Istenem Istenem" (Traditional, arranged by Francesco Messina, Alice)
   • From 1992 album Mezzogiorno Sulle Alpi
     Mezzogiorno Sulle Alpi
     Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi is the twelfth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1992 on EMI Music.Three years after the commercial success of Il sole nella pioggia Alice returned to the music scene with her most mature and complex work to date, exploring genres like experimental...
     
     
9. "Prospettiva Nevski" (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) - 3:50
   • Original version appears on 1985 album Gioielli rubati
10. "A cosa pensano" (Alice, Francesco Messina) - 3:10
    • Original version appears on 1982 album Azimut
      Azimut (Alice album)
      Azimut is the fifth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1982 on EMI Music.Singles released from the album include "Messaggio" , "A cosa pensano" and "Chan-son Egocentrique" , the latter a duet with Franco Battiato. The track "Messaggio" was co-written by Battiato under one...
      
      
11. "Per Elisa" (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Alice) - 3:58
    • Original version appears on 1981 album Alice
      Alice (Per Elisa)
      Alice 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...
      
      a.k.a. Per Elisa
12. "Nomadi" (Juri Camisasca) - 3:55
    • Original version appears on 1986 album Park Hotel
      Park Hotel (Alice album)
      Park Hotel is the eighth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in late 1986 on EMI Music.The album was recorded with a four-piece band consisting of Italian keyboardist Michele Fedrigotti plus three internationally acclaimed musicians: American bassist Tony Levin , American...
      
      
13. "Visioni" (Juri Camisasca) - 4:27
    • From 1989 album Il sole nella pioggia
      Il Sole Nella Pioggia
      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...
      
      
14. "Non ero mai sola" (with Trey Gunn
    Trey Gunn
    Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...
    
    ) (Francesco Messina, Alice) - 4:23
    • From 1995 album Charade
      Charade (Alice album)
      Charade is the thirteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in late 1995 on WEA/Warner Music.After a three year long artistic and legal dispute with her label EMI Music Alice signed with WEA in 1995 and then released her first studio album since 1992's Mezzogiorno sulle...
      
      
15. "I treni di Tozeur
    I Treni Di Tozeur
    "I treni di Tozeur" is an Italian song, written by Franco Battiato, Rosario Cosentino and Giusto Pio. It was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, performed in Italian by Alice and Franco Battiato.In a studio version sung only by Battiato, the song was later to be included on his...
    
    " (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Saro Cosentino) - 2:44
    • Original duet version with 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...
      
       released as single in 1984. Alternate solo version appears on 1987 album Elisir
16. "Il vento caldo dell'estate" (2000 version) (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Francesco Messina, Alice) - 4:34
    • Original version appears on 1980 album Capo Nord
      Capo Nord (Alice album)
      Capo Nord is the third studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1980 on EMI Music.The album includes Alice's Italian breakthrough single "Il vento caldo dell'estate", her first collaboration with composer and singer Franco Battiato....
      
      . Alternate version appears on 1987 album Elisir

Personnel

• Alice - lead vocals, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A 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...
  
   trks 6, 9, 14
• London Session Orchestra with Gavyn Wright
  Gavyn Wright
  Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra, best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions as well as numerous TV and movie soundtracks Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London...
  
   - strings
  String instrument
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
  
   trks 1-3, 9 & 15
• Pino Pinaxa Pischetola - rhythm trks 1-6, 10-12, 14 & 16, overdubs & remix trk 6, computer programming trk 8
• Marco Guarnerio - keyboards & guitar
  Guitar
  The 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...
  
  s trks 1-3, 8, 10 & 12, keyboards trk 4, 5, 9, 15, guitars trks 6 & 14, keyboards & programming trk 13, acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , additional keyboards, piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
   trk 16
• Francesco Messina - keyboards trks 1-6, 8, 10, 11, 13 & 16, piano
  Piano
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   trks 6 & 14 keyboards & programming trks 9 & 12, additional keyboards trk 15
• Skye Edwards
  Skye Edwards
  Skye Edwards is a British singer-songwriter, born in East London. Her career began in 1994 when she and the Godfrey brothers formed the band Morcheeba, which released five albums with Skye as lead vocalist...
  
   of Morcheeba
  Morcheeba
  Morcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   trk 4
• Mauro Spino - additional percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   trk 6
• Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...
  
   - Warr & stick guitar trks 6 & 14
• Stuart Gordon - electric violin
  Electric violin
  An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body...
  
   trk 6, MIDI violin trk 14
• Morgan of Bluvertigo
  Bluvertigo
  Bluvertigo is an Italian band formed in 1992. Their first name was "Golden Age" and former members are Morgan , Andy and Marco Pancaldi...
  
   - vocals, Wurlitzer
  Wurlitzer
  The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....
  
  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   trk 7
• Andy of Bluvertigo - vocals, nord lead, 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...
  
  , bass trk 7
• Sergio of Bluvertigo - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   & tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
   trk 7
• Livio of Bluvertigo - guitars trk 7
• Mauro Pagani - flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , percussion trk 7
• Gavin Harrison
  Gavin Harrison
  Gavin Harrison is a British drummer and percussionist. He is best known for playing with the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree which he joined in 2002. As of 2008, he also plays with the band King Crimson....
  
   - drums trk 8
• Paolo Fresu
  Paolo Fresu
  Paolo Fresu is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.-Career:Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   trk 8
• Roberto Baldi - keyboards trk 11
• Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....
  
   - rhythm trk 13
• Stefano Cerri - bass trk 13
• Richard Barbieri
  Richard Barbieri
  Richard Barbieri, is an English synthesiser player, keyboardist and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London...
  
   - keyboards & programming trk 13
• Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.-Life and career:...
  
   - keyboard activated sound trk 13
• Dave Gregory - guitar trk 13
• Marco Liverani - keyboards trk 13

Production

• Francesco Messina - 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...
  
  
• Trks 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 & 16 recorded and mixed by Pino Pinaxa Pischetola at Stonehenge Studios & Didde Studios, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
   2000
• Trks 1, 2, 3 & 9 strings arranged and conducted by Will Malone, recorded at Angel Recording Studios, London
  London
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   by Gary Thomas
• Trk 15 strings arranged and conducted by Alberto Tafuri, recorded at Angel Recording Studios, London by Gary Thomas
• Morgan of Bluvertigo
  Bluvertigo
  Bluvertigo is an Italian band formed in 1992. Their first name was "Golden Age" and former members are Morgan , Andy and Marco Pancaldi...
  
   - producer trk 7
• Roberto Baldi - additional production trk 11
• Marco Guarnieri - additional production trk 12
• Gianni Versari - mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
   Nautilus, Milan, February 2000
• Sheila Rock - photography
  Photography
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• Polystudio - cover design
• Massimo Gradone & the Polystudio archives - photography booklet
• Una Sas, Bologna - executive producers