This is another release of Al's that I have on vinyl. One of his later Italo-disco projects before foraying into work in films, Bianca Neve was the second attempt by Al to shoot Dutch? model Anne Dattner into Euro-dance superstardom; the first was Kristal, where she performed alongside future Rai Due director Massimo Liofredi, and scored a hit with Love & Magic, while other singles Ete Super and Mango Tree* failed to make a similar impact. (Despite what Discogs would have you believe, this Kristal was not the Kristal behind Love In Stereo.)
The same is true with Bianca Neve, where Dattner was merely a visual performer in the vein of Rob and Fab from Milli Vanilli or Jimmy McShane from Baltimora while famous Italian singer Edda Dell'Orso really performed the vocals; while the first Bianca Neve single Prince Kiss became an international hit in Europe, the single pictured here, Wake Up!, did not, despite distribution from CBS Records, and was never issued on CD by any of, say, Bianco Y Negro's Italo-disco compilation lines.
Its b-side, Broken Heart, has become the more well-known song in recent years, having cemented its way into the hearts of Italian horror fans when Al included its music video on the Synapse Films DVD of Fatal Frames. Broken Heart was later rearranged into the song "Tonight", featured in Al's 1990 directorial debut Gipsy Angel.
(*Al's video for Mango Tree has seemingly spiked up to over 20,000 views after appearing on YouTube, which I'm guessing mostly come from Italian users fascinated with Massimo Liofredi's presence in the video. It's hard to confirm my hunch since comments are disabled, but I did see someone from Italy post it on Twitter in reference to Liofredi, so that's what I'm working off of. Regardless, the song was seemingly not a hit when it was originally issued in 1985.)
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