Amen

by Baustelle

Amen cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 February 2008
  • Label: Warner Music Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Length: 1:03:40
  • Community rating: 3.21/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Chiara Maritano, Beatrice Martini, Claudio Brasini, Giorgio Giovannini, Fabio Gurian, Salima Arfoudi, Mulatu Astatke, Ezio Rizzon, Enrico Allavena, Carlo Rossi, Tal Drori, Gianluca Moro, Sergio Carnevale, Luigi Napolitano, Alessandro Alessandroni, Alessandro Maiorino, Antonio Baglio, Federico Bambi, Paolo Parpaglione, Francesca Genti, Florin Bodnarescul, Roberto Trinci, Fabio Stucchi, Beatrice Antolini

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Amen' masterfully blends Italian songwriting traditions with lush, grand-scale pop rock and chamber-influenced arrangements. The tracks heavily utilize vocal duets to explore conscious, nostalgic themes of aging and modernity.

Genres

Descriptors: duet, conscious, nostalgia, ageing

Tracklist

  1. E cos矛 sia (0:25)
  2. Colombo (2:54)
  3. Charlie fa surf (4:23)
  4. Il liberismo ha i giorni contati (3:53)
  5. L'aeroplano (4:16)
  6. Baudelaire (6:19)
  7. L (4:35)
  8. Antropophagus (5:32)
  9. Panico (3:58)
  10. Alfredo (3:55)
  11. Dark Room (4:49)
  12. L'uomo del secolo (4:11)
  13. La vita va (4:07)
  14. Ethiopia (2:28)
  15. Andarsene cos矛 (2:45)
  16. No steinway (Ghost Track) (1:12)
  17. Spaghetti Western (Ghost Track) (3:49)

Credits

  • Alessandro Alessandroni - accordion, sitar, acoustic guitar, whistling
  • Rachele Bastreghi - arranged by [strings], arranged by [winds], music by, vocals, piano, electric piano [wurlitzer and fender rhodes], organ [hammond]
  • Alessandro Maiorino - bass, double bass
  • Sergio Carnevale - drums, percussion
  • Claudio Brasini - electric guitar, effects [pedals], electronics, music by
  • Ida Coppola - make-up
  • Mulatu Astatke - music by, vibraphone, electric piano [fender rhodes], piano, percussion
  • Laura Polazzi - other [the "what?!?" chick]
  • Roberto Trinci - executive-producer, management
  • Mauro Tavella - recorded by [assistant], mixed by [assistant]
  • Tal Drori - artwork
  • Fabio Stucchi - booking
  • Marco Governa - engineer [harp recording engineer]
  • Francesca Genti - lyrics by
  • Antonio Baglio - mastered by
  • Gianluca Moro - photography by
  • Antonio Cupertino - technician [milano studio assistant]
  • Giuseppe Salvadori - technician [milano studio assistant]

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