Samsara was created as an album, that finds its shape in the inspiration and the accuracy with every song that has been chosen and it consists of twelve songs very different from each other giving the impression of being together to build a perfect album. It comes three years after her live album Lungo La Strada (Along The Road) and nine years after her latest studio project, Viaggio In Italia (Travelling Around Italy) that included covers of songs from other authors. So we must go back to 1998 to find an album from Alice strongly influenced by the presence of unreleased songs which was called Exit. Her new album includes two tracks written by Alice herself and we also will find the collaborations by recognized composers such as Tiziano Ferro who has written two songs specially for her as Nata Ieri (Born Yesterday), which is the first single of the album, and Cambio Casa (Return Home) and Mino Di Martino who has composed many songs for Alice along her entire career and he is the author of Morire D'Amore (Dying For Love), which is based on the life of the Maid of Orléans, Joan of Arc and Come Il Mare (Like The Sea) and Autunno Già (It Is Autumn Already) inspired by the poems of Rimbaud and Verlaine also known as the cursed poets. The album also has a song composed by Franco Battiato, the other half of the duo who represented Italy at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest together with Alice singing I Treni Di Tozeur (The Trains Of Tozeur). This track is entitled Eri Con Me (You Were With Me) which, in a very different version, will also be part of the new album of Battiato to be released in late October. But there are not only new songs in the tracklisting of Samsara. The album also includes a studio version of a poem by Totò with music by Giuni Russo called A Cchiù Bella (Most Beautiful), the sweet ballad by Lucio Dalla Il Cielo (The Sky) that has been in her repertoire for many years and Paolo Tofani's song which succeeded in the 60s Il Mattino (In The Morning). All this results in an album of great songs carefully selected, composed, arranged and performed. It was produced and recorded in London and Milan by Steve Jansen, Francesco Messina and Marco Guarnerio. String instruments were played by Cantini Quartet and arranged by Alberto Tafuri. Review by "Virginia López" (www.eurovisionary.com).
RATING: 8.25 / 10
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