12 (American Song Book) is an album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2012. In the album, Mina covers 12 standards of American music, originally published between 1930 ("Just a Gigolo") and 1970 ("Fire and Rain"). Among the others, she sings "Everything Happens to Me" for the third time (previously recorded in 1964 for the album Mina and in 1993 for Lochness) and "Love Me Tender" for the second time (previously covered for the 1991 album Caterpillar).

Pure pop magic from the lovely Mina – a very weird little record in which she takes on a host of mid-period tracks by The Beatles! The sound is as offbeat as the cover's take on Revolver – kind of a cross between late 60s Beatles, and early 70s Italian – trippy at points, but kind of sweetly poppy at others. And we can't tell for sure from the notes, but the album appears as if it might collect tunes from a number of different periods – although it comes across with a very unified feel overall. Titles include "Let It Be", "Fool On The Hill", "She's Leaving Home", and "Hey Jude" – plus versions of "My Love" and "Oh Darling".

Italian songbook é un progetto discografico che inizia adesso per declinarsi in altri album nel tempo. Un album doppio diviso in due parti che nasce con l'intento di raccogliere le più belle interpretazioni di Mina in italiano. Non solo i suoi grandi successi di una carriera lunga e straordinaria che continua ancora oggi, ma anche le cover fatte da Mina dei grandi pezzi di autori e cantautori come della tradizione della musica italiana. Un Canzoniere con le più belle canzoni che tutti conosciamo con alcune perle da riscoprire prese dalla vasta produzione discografica di Mina. Una canzona inedita per ogni album e delle fotografie inedite arricchiscono le prime due uscite di questo progetto.

Altar Records is happy to release Mina's debut chillout album. Mina became a mom lately, so it was a natural step for her to start to make a full length album that relax the senses and fill up the space around her with peace, harmony and stillness. Being also a producer and singer, surrounded by a Serbian family of well-known musicians (Bojan her husband as Ascent, Branko her brother-in-law as Argus and of course Gradimir, her father-in-law as Norma Project), she has the privilege to do a lot of collaborations and to craft a lot of amazing electronic music at the family studios. So today Mina is inviting us into her own world of light and revelations.