Peter Richard - Frozen Red

Walking In The Neon is indeed a great song, but if you only listen to this track then you’re really missing out! Reason being, there is much more Italo-Electro craziness lurking on this album than you might imagine, and in fact no bad or even average tracks.
For You, Only You, Talk About Me and School Years are great fast-paced tracks bordering on new wave, but my personal favourites are Fly Away, a soft, beautiful and melancholy song, Marlene, a fantastic composition a little in the 1920’s style of Taco - Puttin’ On The Ritz, and last, but definitely not least, Le Planéte Nous Régarde (The Planet Looks At Us), maybe a little tribute to Plastic Bertrand - Tout Petit La Planete, but with more electro production and cool lyrics in both French & English about the evolution of man into the technological age.
The whole album benefits immensely from a stellar line-up featuring superb production by Walter Beinat, the subtleties of Peter Richard’s voice, Gigi Tonet on synths and no doubt the participation of Italian music legend Celso Valli didn’t hurt either.
Finally, the icing on this sumptuous cake is the cover photo, which depicts Mr. Richard himself with eyebrows pencilled into sharp points, without a shirt and draped with some kind of supposedly futuristic red plastic tube. Absolute gold.

"Walking in the Neon" is the standout track for me, a fast 135bpm hard hitting synth with lovely deep sequenced 303 backing bassline, intense kick, haunting strings and good quality male vocal with refernces to space travel, typical of the italo era. This has become a cult track in the new italo revival - I just wish i had first heard it in 1983 when it was released!