Alice (Carla Bissi, born in Forlì in 1954) is an Italian singer and songwriter. After early records as Carla Bissi and Alice Visconti, she began a long partnership with Franco Battiato and Giusto Pio around 1980, won the Sanremo Festival in 1981 with Per Elisa and sang I treni di Tozeur with Battiato for Italy at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest. Her debut album La mia poca grande età came out in 1975 under the name Alice Visconti.
1989 album on EMI of Alice's highly-refined electronic pop produced by Francesco Messina with a host of guests such as Japan's Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri, Jon Hassell, XTC's Dave Gregory, Paolo Fresu, Juri Camisasca and Peter Hammill. With original innersleeve.
“La mia poca grande età” is Alice's first studio album, originally released in 1975. Reissued for the first time in this new edition on black vinyl / 180 gram, limited and numbered edition 500 copies.
BYG were a pioneering independant record compagny, one of the first labels to actively promote diversity and support black African-American musicians and multi-cultural artists worldwide during the 1960s and 1970s.
Alice was part of the experimental and unpredictable energy that pervaded pop in the late ‘60s. Its members had previously worked with the well-regarded French blues rock bands Alan Jack Civilization, and We Free, both of which performed at watershed events in Francophone musical his…