''God Is My DJ'' is the fifteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter

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, released in 1999 on

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. After the release of two pop albums, ''

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'' in 1998, Alice again changed musical direction and set out on a low-key tour with a six-piece acoustic band performing in smaller venues and churches in the North of Italy, interpreting sacral – but not exclusively religious – music. As the singer writes in the liner notes: "''This is not an exploration of spiritual music as such but rather a search for the spirit in music''." The partly instrumental concert ''God Is My DJ'', which later was recorded in studio and released on Warner Music, comprises works by composers as diverse as

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, French, Hungarian and

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n traditionals as well as eleventh and fourteenth century hymns sung in

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's "Pie Jesu" was first recorded on the 1988 classical album ''

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'', the French folk song "Orléans" on the pop album '' Il sole nella pioggia'' in 1989 and the Hungarian "Istenem Istenem" (as part of "In viaggio sul tuo viso") and "Madre notte" ("Mother Night") both on 1992's '' Mezzogiorno Sulle Alpi''.

's original version of "L'oceano di silenzio" ("The Ocean of Silence") was included on his 1988 album ''Fisiognomica'', which also featured his version of Alice's "Nomadi", and "L'ombra della luce" on 1991's '' Come un camello in una grondaia'' and later also on the EMI Classical volume ''Shadow, Light''.

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's "Refugee's Theme" is originally from the soundtrack to

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' film ''The Unsuspended Step of the Stork''. Among the songs originally performed as part of the ''God Is My DJ'' concert but not included on the studio album were

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's 1989 instrumental "With This Love" from the album '' Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ'', the hymns "Planctus Mariae Et Aliorum in Die Parasceven" and "Crucifixio Iesu Christi Domini nostri Mysterium Crucis", "Il cielo sopra il cielo" from Alice's preceding album ''

'', the title track from 1989's '' Il sole nella pioggia'', "Dammi la mano amore" from 1995's ''

'' and "Nomadi" from 1986's '' Park Hotel''.

Track listing

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– 1974) – 1:20 #"Calling All Angels" (

– 1991) – 4:56 #"Madre notte (

, Francesco Messina,

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– 1992) – 1:32 #"Kyrie" ( Florian Fricke/

– 1972) – 5:26 #"L'ombra della luce" (

– 1992) – 3:55 #"Victimae Paschali Laudes" (Unknown – eleventh century) – 1:53 #"Where Will I Be?" (

– 1972) – 3:26 #"L'oceano di silenzio" (Franco Battiato,

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– 1988) – 4:15 #"Unerhiireke" (

n heritage,

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– 1970) – 2:51 #"Für Alina" (instrumental) (

– 1976) – 1:45 #"Istenem Istenem" ( Hungarian traditional) – 1:42 #"Orléans" (French traditional, arranged by David Crosby) – 1:05 #"Ághios O Theós" (Unknown – fourteenth century) – 1:40 #"Refugee's Theme" (instrumental) (

– 1991) – 2:18 #"Pie Jesu" (Mass from ''Requiem'', op.48,

– 1888) – 5:00

Personnel

* Alice – lead vocals, keyboards, backing vocals * Marco Guarnerio – electric & acoustic guitars tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 11, vocals track 2, keyboards track 6 * Simone D'Eusanio –

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tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 & 11 * Ines Hrelia –

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tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 & 14 * Michele Fedrigotti – keyboards tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 13–15, backing vocals 13 * Alberto Tafuri – electric piano & sound programming tracks 2 & 11 * Francesco Messina – additional keyboards & loops tracks 1–3, 7, 11–14

Production

* Francesco Messina – record producer * Recorded and mixed by Pino Pinaxa Pischetola at Stonehenge Studio,

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July – October 1999 * Preproduction at Didde Studio, November 1998 * Computer programming & processing – Pino Pinaxa Pischetola & Marco Guarnerio * Sounds programming – Francesco Messina * Transcriptions courtesy of Michele Fedrigotti, Marco Guarnerio & Alberto Tufuri * Polystudio – cover design * Polystudio archives –

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s * Sheila Rock – photography,

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Notes

* Liner notes: Alice – ''God Is My DJ'' Warner Fonit 857381021 2, 1999

External links

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