Alice
Weekend

Having a new album from Alice just two years after the previous "Samsara" is news in itself, and if we add that "Weekend" is a great album, we complete the news in a full circle.

Less pop than the previous one, more in line with the earlier projects of the Forlì-based artist who has been independently producing her albums for years, each time delicately adding something extra to continental music. Nobody can understand where Italian music has ended up. Sucked in by talent shows and destroyed in all its artistic essence and novelty. Italy suffers from the music industry's crisis, more than other continental countries, a crisis mostly of ideas, courage, and patience. Talent can exist, crystal clear, but without dedication and perseverance, results will never come, and everything will fade away into so many small, fragile bubbles. "Weekend" is the latest product of a journey that has been moving forward since 1980 when an angry girl from Forlì decided to write her own songs, and the album of her new debut, "Capo Nord," is still there as an example of how, with courage and a bit of luck, significant first steps can be made, and something new can begin to be told. Alice's journey has brought her to such maturity that it is now the choice of songs to interpret that conveys her vision of the world more than writing by herself. Claudio Rocchi, Franco Battiato, Paolo Fresu, Mino di Martino are the companions of this new stage. An album born over weekends, free and simple with an acoustic reinterpretation of "Viali di Solitudine" from the first masterpiece of a perfect trilogy, "Park Hotel" from 1986, and Battiato in full immersion in contemporary times with the splendid "Veleni". Paolo Fresu's trumpet enhances the single "Tante Belle Cose", a delightful gem reinterpreted by Alice from a French ballad.

She is still her, charming, often enigmatic with a voice that is everything. She is still her, a fortune for Italy of the "cantar leggero" capable of writing pages of music yet to be matched.