Recorded during a magic night in the courtyard of the renaissance Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena, Italy, where the lightness of Harold Budd's piano met Eraldo Bernocchi's deep electronics.

Harold Budd is one of the very few artists who can correctly be referred to as an ambient composer. His music, a sparse and tonal wash of keyboard treatments, was inspired by a boyhood spent listening to the buzz of telephone wires near his home in the Mojave Desert, California. Though interested in music from an early age, Budd was 36, already married and with children of his own, by the time he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Musical Composition in 1966. He became a respected name in the circle of minimalist and avant-garde composers based in Southern California during the late '60s and in 1976, gained a recording contract with the Brian Eno affiliated EG Records, and released his debut album, The Pavilion of Dreams, in 1978. Two years later, he collaborated with Eno on one of the landmark albums of the ambient style, Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors.

Eraldo Bernocchi started playing with independent punk bands but, rapidly finding the medium too limited, he moved towards electronic experimental music. He worked for five years as a general manager for tourism in the Far East for a leading wholesaler company. This job enabled him to travel most of the time, bringing him in contact with other musical expressions as well with eastern shamanic traditions. This had a deep influence on his future works. Together with the visual artist Petulia Mattioli, he created the cultural project Verba Corrige Productions to provide different artistic forms a permanent laboratory where interaction could be total. Collaborations with international artists such as Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Karsh Kale, Mick Harris/Scorn and Jim Plotkin have be thick on the ground over the years, as well as work scoring for for film, TV and adverts.