Artist: Ciro Perrino

Desciption: Established Italian artist with his 6th album L’Isola which takes the listener on a pilgrimage to the Island of Orta in Northern Italy. Website: http://www.ciroperrino.co.uk

Ciro Perrino L’Isola

After a long journey of musical experimentation and creation – which has taken him from early acoustic explorations with the band Celeste, through electronic experimentation and the fusing of rock and classical music - Ciro Perrino offers his sixth solo album L’Isola.

Recorded with a twenty three piece orchestra and including some of Italy’s premiere musicians – with the invaluable collaboration of respected orchestrator and arranger Marco Canepa and conductor Paolo Pezzi – L’Isola is the culmination of orchestral tradition, European cult instrumentation and the recent passion for a spiritual search in music.

The Storey Behind L’Isola

Over the years Ciro has explored many religions and spiritual beliefs always translating his discoveries into music. Three years ago he went on a pilgrimage to the island of Orta in the province of Novara in Northern Italy. On the island is a lake and in the centre of the lake is the tiny island of San Giulio, home to a 16th Century monastery.

This area was once the gateway into Lombardia and Northern Italy and as such it was the scene of many a bloody battle. The monks, in an attempt to preserve some level of faith and hope in those barbaric times, built a path within the holy grounds that pilgrims could visit.

The pilgrims travel twice around the path. Once in a clockwise direction to reflect on ‘The Road Of Silence’ and once anticlockwise reflecting on ‘The Road Of Meditation’. Each path has ten thoughts the traveller should reflect on and Ciro has transposed his own reflections into short musical passages.

Orta and the Isola San Guilio are now beautiful and peaceful Islands with no obvious signs of such a savage past. But the Monastery and the monks path are still there and pilgrims still visit and consider the Paths Of silence and Of Meditation. For those of us who cannot go there, Ciro’s album gives us the chance of taking the same spiritual journey through his music.

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