Alice
Melodie Passeggere

After a series of concerts that have as their only common thread the late 1800s French classical music, Alice released "Melodie Passeggere" in 1988. Two years have passed since "Park Hotel" and its successor is not another album of new material but a breathtaking work, whose content is a tribute to the music of composers of the caliber of Satie, Fauré, and Ravel.

We are in the midst of the '80s where the most blatant commercialism stands out and dictates the rules, yet Alice chooses to bring back to her audience a selection of lieder. This is the second project parallel to her normal composing activity after "Gioielli Rubati", another path to explore, a series of emotions to cultivate.

The lieder is a classical composition for piano and voice alone. Having studied piano, Alice knows this musical art form well and, with the help of Michele Fedrigotti on piano, she takes us into a new world, but not far from the modern form of song. Singing complex and broad-ranging pieces, naturally in the original language, allows Alice to further exalt her beautiful voice. If she had already given much in terms of interpretation in "Park Hotel" and previous works, here she finds herself giving voice to compositions where the singing is everything and the piano accompanies it alone, sometimes aided only by a slight veil of keyboards. "Chanson d'amour" by Fauré is simply splendid, as is "Silvie" by Satie and the version of "Kaddish" by Ravel, with text in Hebrew. The listener finds themselves immersed in a series of brief notes and songs, the time to sketch an emotion, to expand a perception. A small, exciting and intense journey that leads to the magnificent finale with "Pie Jesu" by Fauré, a religious song of stunning beauty. With her voice, Alice takes the listener to a dimension without space and time, a vast, enveloping song that seems to cradle the soul.

"Melodie Passeggere" is a small great work in the courageous discography of this artist who loves to propose what she truly loves, endowed with great curiosity and above all a will that has challenged the market logic of the big record giants. This is why the release of her new album is an important event for her audience.