Il fiore splendente

Songs inspired by the thousand-year-old Arabian poetry of Sicily All the verses in Arabic are originals by Sicilian Arab poets who lived and wrote between the 9th and 12th centuries. All texts in Italian are taken from "Antologia Poeti arabi di Sicilia" edited by Francesca Maria Corrao, courtesy of © 2002 , Mesogea by GEM srl. The text of track 5 is a poem by Sebastiano Burgaretta taken from the book "L'ala del tempo" used courtesy of the author and the publisher CUECM from Catania Recording: - Polskie Radio Wroclawa in Warsaw (PO) - Ballsaal Studio and Teldex Studios in Berlin by Ansgar Wempe, Tobias Lehman and Peter Schmidt Recording of Franco Battiato's piano and vocals (tracks 3 and 5) at Pinaxa Studio in Milan by Pino Pischetola. Recording of Markus Stockhausen's trumpet (track 9) at Studio Rosenhof by Pablo Giw Editing: Etta Scollo, Peter Schmidt, Andreas Sperling, Simon Beizai at Ballhaus Studio and Julian Schwenkner, Martin Litauer and Philipp Knop at Teldex studio. Digipak with separate 60-page booklet housed in a cardboard slipcase.