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God Is My DJ is the fifteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1999 on WEA/Warner Music. After the release of two pop albums, Charade in 1996 and Exit 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 Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French,

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  • God Is My DJ is the fifteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1999 on WEA/Warner Music. After the release of two pop albums, Charade in 1996 and Exit 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 Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French, Hungarian and Livonian traditionals as well as eleventh and fourteenth century hymns sung in Ancient Greek and Latin. Gabriel Fauré's "Pie Jesu" was first recorded on the 1988 classical album Mélodie passagère, 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. Franco Battiato'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 and later also on the EMI Classical volume Shadow, Light. Eleni Karaindrou's "Refugee's Theme" is originally from the soundtrack to Theo Angelopoulos' 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 Peter Gabriel'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 Exit, the title track from 1989's Il sole nella pioggia, "Dammi la mano amore" from 1995's Charade and "Nomadi" from 1986's Park Hotel. (en)
  • God Is My DJ è un album della cantautrice italiana Alice, pubblicato nel 1999. L'intento del progetto è una "ricerca del sacro nella musica", come dichiarato dall'artista stessa. God is my dj mescola opere e autori spesso differenti fra loro, ma tutti perfettamente integrati nel mondo musicale di Alice, per tematiche e atmosfere. Infatti, alcune tracce del disco erano già state interpretate una prima volta in altrettanti lavori dell'artista, come Mélodie passagère (Pie Jesu), Il sole nella pioggia (Orléans), Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi (Madre notte e Istenem, istenem, tradizionale ungherese inserito nel singolo In viaggio sul tuo viso). Inoltre, vi sono due brani scritti da Franco Battiato, indubbiamente una parte integrante del percorso musicale della cantante. Il progetto God Is My DJ aveva esordito dal vivo nel 1998, all'interno della rassegna "La musica dei cieli" a Milano: il programma comprendeva altri brani tratti dal repertorio di Alice, quali Il cielo sopra il cielo (Exit) Il sole nella pioggia (Il sole nella pioggia), Dammi la mano amore (Charade) e Nomadi (Park Hotel). Il disco è stato fortemente voluto dall'artista, al punto da accettare la partecipazione al Festival di Sanremo l'anno dopo (con conseguente pubblicazione di una raccolta di successi), fortemente voluta, invece, dalla WEA. (it)
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  • God Is My DJ is the fifteenth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1999 on WEA/Warner Music. After the release of two pop albums, Charade in 1996 and Exit 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 Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French, (en)
  • God Is My DJ è un album della cantautrice italiana Alice, pubblicato nel 1999. L'intento del progetto è una "ricerca del sacro nella musica", come dichiarato dall'artista stessa. God is my dj mescola opere e autori spesso differenti fra loro, ma tutti perfettamente integrati nel mondo musicale di Alice, per tematiche e atmosfere. Infatti, alcune tracce del disco erano già state interpretate una prima volta in altrettanti lavori dell'artista, come Mélodie passagère (Pie Jesu), Il sole nella pioggia (Orléans), Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi (Madre notte e Istenem, istenem, tradizionale ungherese inserito nel singolo In viaggio sul tuo viso). Inoltre, vi sono due brani scritti da Franco Battiato, indubbiamente una parte integrante del percorso musicale della cantante. (it)
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