l'ISOLA

L'ISOLA
Isola San Giulio is a small island in the Lago Orta In Northern Italy. This area with many lakes lies in the province of Novara. On this island there is an old seventeenth century monastery, where a group of nuns lives from the Order of Saint Benedict.
A path meanders around this monastery. That path can be followed clockwise and counterclockwise.
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        La via del silenzio


        The path clockwise is the path of silence (La via del Silenzio) and shows by signs ten toughts in various languages.


        - Listen to the silence

        - Listen to the water, the wind, your steps

        - In the silence you accept and understand

        - In the silence you receive all 

        - Silence is the language of love

        - Silence is the peace of oneself

        - Silence is music and harmony

        - Silence is truth and prayer

        - In the silence you meet the Master

        - In silence you breathe God


        La via della meditazione

        The same path, but counterclockwise is the path of meditation (La via della Meditazione) and also shows by signs ten thoughts in various languages.


        - Every journey begins near to you

        - Walls are in the mind

        - Open your being

        - The moment is present, here at now

        - Leave yourself and what is yours

        - Accept yourself, grow, ripen 

        - Be simple, be yourself

        - The wise man errs and smiles

        - If you can be yourself, you are everything

        - When you are aware, the journey is over


        Twenty compositions

        Since the first visit to this small island, which is so close to the major cities of Lombardy, Ciro Perrino is deeply impressed by the wondrous path that meanders around the walls of the monastery. 

        It is a combination of beauty and simplicity. You can reach a connection of beauty and simplicity when you open yourself up to enlightened consciousness and the divine.

        As the landscape evokes music, Ciro composes, as always the medium – finally the music already exists – using the above thoughts, a twenty small musical adventures that he considers the landscapes of our soul. Every thought on the sign forms a composition, twenty in total.

        Symphony Orchestra 

        In 2002 these compositions are performed with a classical symphony orchestra and released by Warner on the album L'ISOLA. Also released in the United States.

        The album has the blessing of Mother Superior at the monastery with which she blesses the deep harmony between the source of inspiration and the completed album.

        L’ISOLA is therefore no longer one of the musical projects of a selective composer as Ciro, but a new chapter in the secret history of one of the few left sources for contemplations and sobriety in one of the most stressful areas in Italy.

        The choice for a symphony orchestra is perfect. Exclusively by a classical instrumentation all colors of the musical palette are filled in. A whole group with strings and wind instruments, the presence of a soprano and an alt to view the vocal themes properly on a both classical and modern way.


        Below are the twenty signs showing the thoughts in various languages, which are taken as titles for the songs on the album L'ISOLA.

Below are the twenty signs showing the thoughts in various languages, which are taken as titles for the songs on the album L'ISOLA 
The first ten tracks relate to 'the path of silence', the next ten tracks to 'the path of meditation'.
Click for listening on the first page of the CD-booklet below