Album Notes

1: Noche en Ortigia
Ortigia is an island that is an old and lovely part of a bigger and ancient city in Sicily "Siracusa", it refers to a night spent with friends walking and talking between the little streets of the old town, relaxing.

2: Seis is a Portuguese word, think of Portuguese mood.

3: Marzamemi is a little town in Sicily. The track refers to a somewhat languid mood experienced there.

4: Rumbita is a Spanish word - a little rumba, the Spanish. As a contrast here I do not play Flamenco guitar, but the Tzouras, which is a Greek instrument, the smaller version of the Bouzouki, which has 6 strings instead of 8, created by Greek seasonal workers to travel and take it with them.

5: Sabucina is a sacred mountain in the center of the Sicily, just a suggestion towards a less known part of Sicily and Sicilian soul.

6: Gaddimeli is a land, in a country near the sea, near a big tourist town. I thought of it because there are some little roads crossing there, it's the kind of beautiful and relaxed place which we cross when in the car, going from one place to another, without stopping or thinking to it, a bit like in life when we work too much and don't live for the beautiful things of life.

7: Taqsim de Ferla, Taqsim is an Arabian word to indicate a musical improvisation, Ferla is a little town between the mountains in Sicily

8: Libertad: means freedom, I wrote it after the new Iranian revolution and the killing of Neda, the young girl, and other young boys and girls that live there. It refers to the search of freedom.

9: Taqsim de Cirica, another improvisation inspired by a beach here, whose name is Cirica.

10: Egeum, is the name of the sea, as an old book says is "a part of the Mediterranean Sea, near Greece, dividing Europe from Asia." I thought about the Egeum Sea as an idea to finish this CD as a journey and then start a new one.
Saro Tribastone: Flamenco Guitar, Tzouras, Beating Guitar, Mandolin, Percussions
Francesco D'Amico: Acoustic and Electric Bass
Fulvio Farkas: Tablas, Udu Drum, Bombo, Bendir
Francesca Guccione: Violin
Giorgio Rizzo: Cajon
Giorgio Cannizzaro: Accordion

Recorded and Mixed by Marco Calì at Nova Era Music Studio, Pozzallo (RG)
Mastered by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios, London