Album: Zero il Folle
Artist: Renato Zero
2019 Tattica
CD: 8034097060922

Renato Zero: lead vocals (all)
Trevor Horn: bass (all), keys (1, 3-7, 10, 11)
Ash Soan: drums (1-4, 6-13)
Jonah Summerfield: drums (5)
Phil Palmer: guitar (all)
Alan Clark: keys/piano/Hammond (all), programming (2, 3, 5-7, 9-12)
Luis Jardim: percussion (all)
Joel M Peters: percussion (9), programming (1), keys (1)
Julian Hinton: programming (1, 13)
Sam Baker: programming (4, 5, 8)
Tim Weidner: programming (6)
Simon Bloor: programming (6)
Callum Landau: programming (8)

Choir: Izzy Chase (1), Roberto Angrisani (2, 4, 7, 8, 10), Valentina Passoni (2, 4, 7, 8), Vita Venturi (2, 4, 8), Matteo Saggese (8, 10), Antonella Cilenti (8), Andrea Cantoni (8), Anna Cacciatore (8), Dora Velotti (8), Gerry Duni (8), Gianluca Sudano (8), Laura Ferri Ricchi (8), Letizia Liberati (8), Luca Palleschi (8), Lucy Campeti (8), Manuela Montagner (8), Marilicia Piccaluga (8), Riccardo Rinaudo (8), Stefano Natale (8), Valentina Gagliardi (8), Marta Capponi (10), Davide Montavani (10), Annie Skates (13), Jacqueline Barron (13), Laura Tebbutt (13), Florence Andrews (13), Rosalind Waters (13), Kate Graham (13), Yona Dunsford (13), Claire Henry (13), Sara Brimer (13), Emma Kershaw (13), Lee Hickenbottom (13), Steve Trowell (13), Alastair Brookshaw (13), John Addison (13), Stephen Weller (13), Iain Mackenzie (13), Michael Henry (13), James Spilling (13), Andy Playfoot (13), Simon Grant (13)


Produced by Horn
Co-produced: Clark/Palmer
Recorded in Sarm Village, Notting Hill, London and 105 Ladbroke Grove, Primrose Hill, London
Sound engineer: Weidner/Peters/Bloor
Mixed by Weidner/Peters
Assistants: Peters/Baker/Landau
Mastered by Patricia Sullivan

Executive producer/management: Simone Veneziano
Assistant artist: Mariano Mariani
Art direction and photographic processing: Paolo de Francesco
Photos: Roberto Rocco


Tracks:
LP/CD1:
1. "Mai Più da Soli" [lyr: Zero; mus: Palmer] (3:55)
2. "Viaggia" [lyr: Zero; mus: Palmer/Clark] (5:09)
3. "La Culla è Vuota" [lyr: Zero; mus: Clark] (4:03)
4. "Un Uomo è..." [lyr: Zero; mus: Clark] (4:17)
5. "Tutti Sospesi" [lyr: Zero; mus: Danilo Madonia/Zero] (4:03)
6. "Quanto Ti Amo" [lyr: Vizzini/Zero; mus: Vizzini] (3:40)
7. "Che Fretta C'è" [lyr: Zero; mus: Madonia/Zero] (4:46)
8. "Ufficio Reclami" [lyr: Zero/Incenzo; mus: Zero/Madonia] (4:26)
9. "Questi Anni Miei" [lyr: Zero; mus: Palmer/Clark] (4:54)
10. "Figli Tuoi" [lyr: Zero; mus: Palmer/Saggese] (3:56)
11. "La Vetrina" [lyr: Zero; mus: Palmer/Saggese] (3:43)
12. "Quattro Passi Nel Blu" [lyr: Zero; mus: Palmer/Clark] (4:28)
13. "Zero il Folle" [lyr: Zero; mus: Madonia/Zero] (4:16)




Notes: This was the 30th album by Renato Zero, the stage name of Renato Fiacchini. The album was recorded in the first half of 2019. It was released 4 Oct 2019, after an initial planned date of 30 Sep. (1) was the first single, out 17 May. (11) was the second single, released 11 Sep. There were videos for both singles. The album made #1 in Italy and #86 in Switzerland.

Horn, Palmer, Soan, Jardim, Bloor and Hinton previously worked with Zero on 2013's Amo – Capitolo I, Amo - Capitolo II and/or Amo - Capitolo III. Horn, Palmer and Clark are all in Dire Straits Legacy, while other names are familiar from Horn's team (Soan, Jardim, Peters, Hinton, Weidner, Bloor, Chase). Madonia had also worked with Zero before. (HP, 1 Nov 19)

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