Ciro has gone his own way after CELESTE's breakup and has started an extensive solo career (see elsewhere on this site). However, a possible sequel to CELESTE's first and only official album has always kept him busy. 

About two and a half years ago Ciro decides to reconsider the composition of new songs for CELESTE because of the outside appreciation. He interrupts his solo projects for some time to focus entirely on CELESTE. A great challenge.

In the first step he brings the same colour palette of sounds back to life with the instruments used almost 50 years ago.

The acoustic guitar, the electric bass, flutes, piano, saxophones, keyboards (Solina and Eminent), synthesizers (ARP 2600, ARP Odyssey, Minimoog), percussion, Ciro's own voice and his own Mellotron.

The ingredients are present.

Ciro wants to emphasise that all is in line with the original intentions of Celeste in 1972.

In the Celeste Project he records the cello and the violin, which should have been part of the palette of "Principe di un Giorno".

Because of personal reasons the cellist as well as the flute/saxophonist and the female voice, a British singer are leaving the band. Thus, Celeste has been reduced to a quartet. The planned parts that should have been the dialogue between the violin and the cello, disappear almost entirely or are  preserved.  These musical parts are thereby adjusted. There is something left to be heard at the beginning of "Principe di un Giorno" where the violin plays together with the Mellotron.

Ciro is well aware of working with full respect for what "Principe di un Giorno" from CELESTE is.

At any time, he constantly forces himself to rethink whether he is in the right emotion of that album.

It’s difficult to start with the first harmonies, the first arpeggios of the guitar and clear melodies with the Mellotron. He is not satisfied. Countless attempts don’t work out well. The attempts do not reflect the text ideas. Ciro therefore keeps working on the texts without writing anything else. It is becoming increasingly clear that the prince must leave his voluntary exile from beneath the surface of the lake and must return among the people.

It is clear that the images formed in a conscious and unconscious way in the creative process affect each other sooner or later.

A sound reminds someone of a word, a phoneme (a set of sounds) asking for a new sound. This also creates the title of the new Celeste  album, first timid and uncertain but more clearly and more defined.

"Il Principe ed il Lago" (The Prince and the Lake), "Il Ritorno del principe" (The Return of the Prince), "Il principe triste" (The sad Prince) etc. At the end the usual remote voice: Ïl Risveglio del Principe "(The Awakening Prince).

At that moment the new compositions also get a certain form.