Amore e non amore
Amore e non amore | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | July 1971 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock, rock and roll, rock | |||
Length | 35:39 | |||
Label | Dischi Ricordi | |||
Producer | Lucio Battisti, Mogol | |||
Lucio Battisti chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Ondarock | – recommended[2] |
Amore e non amore (Love and non-love) is a concept album by the Italian singer and songwriter Lucio Battisti. It was released in July 1971 by Dischi Ricordi.
The album focuses on the contraposition of "love" and "not-love". As a result, the LP is split in two definite "sides", each one made up of four songs:
- The "non-love" side, characterised by a rock and roll music style and lyrics referring to "non-love" situations (e.g. adultery, unrequited or obsessive love, etc.).
- The "love" side, characterised by instrumental tracks with long titles and a progressive rock music style.
The album was Italy's 10th best selling album in 1971,[3] though no song from this disc became nearly as popular as those included in Battisti's other albums from this period.
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Mogol, all music composed by Lucio Battisti.
- "Dio mio no" (My God, No!) – 7:31
- "Seduto sotto un platano con una margherita in bocca guardando il fiume nero macchiato dalla schiuma bianca dei detersivi" (Sitting under a plane tree with a daisy in the mouth looking at the black river spotted by detersives' white foam) – 3:08
- "Una" (One) – 3:45
- "7 agosto di pomeriggio fra le lamiere roventi di un cimitero di automobili solo io, silenzioso eppure straordinariamente vivo" (August 7 in the afternoon among the scorching sheets of a cars' cemetery [there is] only me, silent yet extraordinarily alive) – 4:02
- "Se la mia pelle vuoi" (If You Want My Skin) – 4:07
- "Davanti ad un distributore automatico di fiori dell'aereoporto di Bruxelles anch'io chiuso in una bolla di vetro" (In front of a flowers vending machine in Bruxelles's airport I [am] closed in a glass bowl too) – 2:15
- "Supermarket" – 4:51
- "Una poltrona, un bicchiere di cognac, un televisore, 35 morti ai confini di Israele e Giordania" (An armchair, a glass of cognac, a television, 35 deaths at the border between Israel and Jordan) – 5:57
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1971-2) | Highest position |
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Italy (Musica e dischi)[4] | 1 |
Personnel[edit]
- Dario Baldan - organ, organo
- Lucio Battisti - arranger, composer, conductor, guitar, keyboards, orchestra director, primary artist, vocals
- Fabio Berruti - artwork, graphic design
- Franz Di Cioccio - drums
- Gary Hobish - reissue mastering
- La Rosa, Antonio - remastering
- Mogol - audio 2 composer
- Francone Mussida - chitarrone, guitar
- Silvio Nobili - cover photo, photography
- Amedeo Pace - liner notes
- Walter Patergnani - engineer
- Giorgio Piazza - bass[ambiguous]
- Flavio Premoli - percussion, piano, tambourine, tamburello
- Alberto Radius - chitarrone, guitar
- Nathaniel Russell - reissue art director, reissue layout
- Filippo Salvadori - reissue producer
References[edit]
- ^ "Amore e Non Amore". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ Francesco Buffoli. "Lucio Battisti. Un'emozione italiana" (in Italian). Ondarock. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "Classifica degli album più venduti del 1971" (in Italian). www.hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
- ^ "Classifiche". Musica e Dischi (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2024. Set "Tipo" on "Album". In the "Artista" field, search "Lucio Battisti", then, in the "Titolo" field, search "Amore e non amore".