Blues time back on the market. The only album that Laura Valente published under his own name, released early 1986, comes out again Friday 18 September For The Saifam Group in digipack CD and vinyl, with a circulation of 300 signed copies. Exactly forty years since the first printing.
The announcement comes from the singer on social media, and the first thing she does is quote a verse she sang then.
“How I will be in 20 years and one more day, I sang in 1986. 40 years have passed and a lot of things have happened!”
In the post Laura Valente confirms the 300 signed copies, recalls the album credits one by one and closes with a line that says how it got there: “What an unexpected joy”. The reprint did not originate from her.
Who made Blues Time in 1986
The album comes out for Fonit Cetrawhich in 1984 had put the Milanese singer under contract for four years. The music is by Mangothe lyrics and the production of Alberto Salernothe arrangements of Mauro Paoluzzi. Eight tracks for thirty-six minutes: Islands in the current, Goodbye, Chinatown, Red wolf, What a strange summer, Put Me Down, The butterfly and the title track.
To anticipate it, in 1985, a 45 rpm single with Blues time And Islands in the current.
It was Alberto Salerno, who was following her at the time, who presented Laura Valente to Mango. From that meeting the album and a bond that will become marriage were born: she will be the voice in the backing vocals of Australia, Odyssey, Chasing the eagle And Sirtaki. Mango died on December 8, 2014, on stage, while singing Gold.
Because it remained the only solo album
On the way out Blues time it was promoted little and sold little. The critics treated it well, the market didn't, and this is why today the original vinyl is a collector's item listed on Discogs.
What comes next for the singer does not come from the records under her name. In 1990 i Matia Bazarwithout lead vocals after the release of Antonella Ruggierothey call her: with her the band publishes Lazy souls in 1991, Where songs come true in 1993, Radiomatics in 1995 and Welcome to Sausalito in 1997. Al Sanremo Festival with Matia she came sixth in 1992 with Little giants and fourth in 1993 with Dedicated to you.
In 2011 he led to Rome Castavivaa show in which she played Maria Callas. His son Filippo is a drummer, his daughter Angelina Mango he won Sanremo in 2024. The album that returns in September, however, comes from before all this: from a twenty-two year old girl who wondered what it would be like twenty years later.
