''Reality and Fantasy'' is the second studio album by Italian jazz singer

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, composed, produced and arranged by Gualazzi himself, it was released in Italy on February 16, 2011 on Sugar Music.

Background

The album features guest artists such as Italian

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er Fabrizio Bosso, Ferdinando Arnò, who co-produced the lead single "Follia d'amore", Vince Mendoza, James F. Reynolds,

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and French DJ

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. As of June 2012, the album had sold more than 100,000 copies and it was certified platinum by the

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. In October 2011, a special edition of the album was released in Italy, including bonus tracks and an additional DVD featuring the "Live Documentary", recorded on June 24, 2011 during Gualazzi's concert at the

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in Rome. A new edition of the album was released in France by Blue Note Records in September 2012.

Singles

The first single from the album, "

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", was the winner of the 61st Sanremo Music Festival in the newcomer artists' section and also won the Critics' "Mia Martini" Award for newcomers. It was chosen by a specific jury among the participants at the Sanremo Festival to be the Italian entry for the

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. It was the first Italian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in 14 years since

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. The song, performed in both Italian and English with the translated title "Madness of Love", came in second place. Other singles from the album were "A Three Second Breath", "Calda estate (dove sei)", "Love Goes Down Slow" and "Zuccherino dolce".

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

Year-end charts

Personnel

Credits adapted from Allmusic.

Production credits

* Ferdinando Arnò – additional production * Emiliano Alborghetti – assistant * Laura Borgognoni – art direction, design * Marco Craig – cover photo, design, photography * Giuseppe Dicecca – stylist * David Frazer – engineer, mixing * Donal Hodgson – engineer, mixing * Joe LaPorta – mastering * Emily Lazar – mastering * Sabrina Mellace – stylist * Mimmo Di Maggio - Hair and Make Up

Music credits

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, composer, lyricist, producer,

kazoo The kazoo is an American musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. It is a type of '' mirliton'' (which itself is a membranophone), one of a class of instruments which modifie ...

, clavinet, organ,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, background vocals,

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* Atem Quartet –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

* Abigail Bailey – background vocals * Lele Barbieri – drums * David Bartelucci –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

* Fabrizio Bosso –

* Karl Brazil – drums * David Brutti – contralto saxophone * Giuseppe Conte – bass,

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Felice Del Gaudio –

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

* Duke Ellington – composer * Luca Florian –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

–

, percussion, producer * Oliviero Malaspina – composer, lyricist * Christian Marini – drums * Mr. Wallace – arranger * Malcolm Moore – bass * James Reynolds – harmonica, mixing, producer *

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– vocals * Massimo Valentini –

baritone sax The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

, saxophone * Matteo Villa – contralto saxophone * Fio Zanotti – composer

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reality And Fantasy 2011 albums Raphael Gualazzi albums Italian-language albums