Il sole nella pioggia is the eleventh studio album by Italian singer-songwriter
Alice, released in 1989 on
EMI Music.
Synopsis
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 ragazze di Osaka" and the
Friulian "Anìn a Grîs". Il sole nella pioggia features contributions from a number of international musicians who had previously collaborated with contemporary British artists in the
alternative rock genre like
Peter Hammill,
Kate Bush and
David Sylvian: drummer
Steve Jansen and keyboardist
Richard Barbieri – both former members of the band
Japan, trumpeter
Jon Hassell, guitarist
Dave Gregory, guitarist and keyboardist Ian Maidman, Turkish flutist
Kudsi Erguner as well as Italian jazz trumpeter
Paolo Fresu.
"Le ragazze di Osaka" ("The Girls From Osaka") was originally recorded by the composer
Eugenio Finardi and included on his 1983 album Dal blu, Finardi had previously written the track "Laura degli specchi" ("Laura of the Mirrors") for Alice, included on her 1982 album Azimut. The medieval French folk song and nursery rhyme "Orléans" (also known as "
Le Carillon de Vendôme" or "
Les Cloches De Vendôme") sung
a cappella was originally arranged by
David Crosby of
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and included on his 1971 debut album If I Could Only Remember My Name. The acoustic "Anìn a Grîs", which translates as "Let's go hunt for crickets" in English, is based on a poem in the
Friulian language by poet Maria Grazia Di Gleria, set to music by keyboardist Marco Liverani. Il sole nella pioggia closes with the English language track "Now and Forever", a duet with
Peter Hammill of British
progressive rock band
Van der Graaf Generator.
Five of the tracks were written by Italian composer and singer
Juri Camisasca, who also wrote "Nomadi" on the 1986 album Park Hotel.
The track "Cieli del nord" was a re-recording of "Le scogliere di Dover", first released on the Japanese compilation Kusamakura in 1988.