Tropico del nord

Tropico del nord is the ninth album released by the Italian rock band Pooh in 1983.^[1] According to the liner notes, it was the first album ever released on CD by an Italian band.^[2]

Tropico del nord
Studio album by Pooh
Released	16 September 1983
Recorded	February – April 1983
Studio	Air Studios, Montserrat
Genre	Pop
Length	44:47
Label	CGD
Producer	Pooh
Pooh chronology
Palasport (1982) Tropico del nord (1983) Aloha (1984)

The album was recorded in Montserrat.^[3]

Reception

In a review on Corriere della Sera, Mario Luzzatto Fegiz remarked that despite the recording happening on a tropical island, the sound is not very different from the previous Pooh albums, however adding that "it is precisely the skillful provincial taste of these lyrics that manage to describe the everyday ephemerality, [and] those choruses that constitute the most valuable part of Pooh's overall banal sounds, that give this album good market possibilities."^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Cara sconosciuta"	Valerio Negrini	Roby Facchinetti	4:40
2.	"Cosa dici di me"	Stefano D'Orazio	Facchinetti Red Canzian	4:56
3.	"Lettera da Berlino Est"	Negrini	Facchinetti	4:40
4.	"Grandi speranze"	Negrini	Facchinetti	6:40
5.	"Passaporto per le stelle"	Negrini	Facchinetti	4:44
6.	"Solo voci"	Negrini	Facchinetti	1:22
7.	"Mezzanotte per te"	Negrini	Dodi Battaglia	4:50
8.	"È vero"	Negrini	Facchinetti	4:21
9.	"Colazione a New York"	Negrini	Red Canzian	4:23
10.	"Tropico del nord"	D'Orazio	Facchinetti	4:01
Total length:				44:47

Personnel

Pooh Roby Facchinetti – vocals, piano, Fairlight CMI Dodi Battaglia – guitars, vocals Red Canzian – bass guitar, vocals Stefano D'Orazio – drums, percussion, vocals

Production Luciano Tallarini – art direction Maurizio Biancani – engineering, mixing Marco Inzadi – mastering Jeremy Allom, Steve Culnane, Osiride Gozzi – studio assistants Design Alessandro Gerini – graphics Roberto Tomasin – photography

References

1. "Pooh "Tropico del nord" (1983)". Music Map (in Italian). Retrieved 20 April 2024.
2. "Pooh". Pooh Official WebSite (in Italian). Retrieved 25 May 2024.
3. Luzzatto Fegiz, Mario (6 September 1983). "Pooh dai Caraibi con amore" [Pooh from the Caribbean with love]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). p. 19.

External links

• Tropico del nord at AllMusic
• Tropico del nord at Discogs (list of releases)
• Tropico del nord at MusicBrainz (list of releases)