Altro (album)

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Altro
Studio album by
Released16 October 1972 (1972-10-16)[1]
Recorded1972
StudioLa Basilica, Milan[2]
GenrePop
Length36:19
LanguageItalian
LabelPDU
Mina chronology
Dalla Bussola
(1972)
Altro
(1972)
Del mio meglio n. 2
(1973)

Altro is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 16 November 1972 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana[1] with live album Dalla Bussola in a two-LP package entitled Mina 1+1; it was the first in her series of double albums.[3]

Track listing[edit]

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Non ti riconosco più"
4:10
2."I giorni dei falò (Long Ago and Far Away)"2:20
3."Ballata d'autunno (Balada de otoño)"5:40
4."L'amore, forse... (Ao amigo Tom)"
2:43
5."Volendo si può"
3:20
Total length:18:13
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fate piano"3:50
2."Rudy"Guido Bolzoni3:32
3."L'abitudine (Daddy's Dream)"
3:19
4."Amore mio"
3:40
5."Ossessione '70"Fausto Cigliano3:45
Total length:18:06

Personnel[edit]

  • Mina – vocals
  • Alberto Baldan – arrangement (A1)
  • Pino Presti – arrangement (A2, A5, B1)
  • Natale Massara – arrangement (A3, B4, B5)
  • Giulio Libano – arrangement (A4)
  • Massimo Salerno – arrangement (B2, B3)
  • Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineer
  • Gianni Ronco – illustrations

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[4]

Charts[edit]

Chart performance for 1+1
(Altro and Dalla Bussola)
Chart (1972) Peak
position
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[5] 2

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Altro". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  2. ^ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  3. ^ Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). "Numero Uno". Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. p. 34. ISBN 9788893720885. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  4. ^ Mina (1972). Altro (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 5062.
  5. ^ Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.

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