| Mina 2 | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Mina |
| Cover: | Mina 2 album.jpg |
| Length: | 32:23 |
| Label: | Ri-Fi |
| Prev Title: | Studio Uno 66 |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Sabato sera – Studio Uno '67 |
| Next Year: | 1967 |
Mina 2 (or Mina Due) is the tenth studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in November 1966 by Ri-Fi.
This studio work mainly consists of foreign songs performed in the original language.[1] Most of them had never been released before, with the exception of the opening song "Se non ci fossi tu", released a month earlier as a single,[2] as well as the songs "Lontanissimo (Somewhere)" and "Ebb Tide", released on the previous studio album Studio Uno 66 in July of the same year.[3]
Augusto Martelli was involved as a song arranger and conductor of his orchestra.
The album was released in November 1966 in mono sound format, but a month later it was reissued with stereo sound. It became the eighth in the sales chart. The album was also distributed in Latin American countries under the name Mina 5 – El Quinto Disco de la Ùnica with a slightly changed track order, but with the same cover.[4]
Claudio Milano from highlighted the track "My Melancholy Baby" in the album with an exquisite Martelli arrangement and Mina's personal interpretation: "The interpreter's voice, announced by a caressing string intro, immediately flies on high frequencies, caressed with superb lightness, to become loaded with harmonics as it falls back on low and deliberately dirty frequencies, with a typically "Fitzgerald" manner that is not as soon as the brass appears to thunder. While the strings retain an almost fairy-tale dimension, the singing shows off a palette of colors that transfigures every word into a thousand of a thousand. It is a continuous up and down: in high gracefulness, on the low frequencies a support of the orchestral crescendos. There is also room for a trumpet solo, supported by repetitions on the piano. Mina closes with a unique elegance of timbre and phrasing. Pure enchantment".[5]
| Peak position | ||
| Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[6] | 8 |
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