This recording is a synesthetic homage to music which explores the passion, lust, love, hallucination, and healing induced by herbs and flowers. It is a sensuous quest for the melting point at which very different repertoires and literatures dissolve into an unctuous and euphonious balsam for the mind and the soul.

In its own inimitable interdisciplinarity, the Belgian ensemble Zefiro Torna takes us from Norway to Greece, from Virgil to Emile Verhaeren, and from Hildegard von Bingen and Guillaume du Fay to music newly composed in honour of the power of plants. A truly intoxicating experience.

Alternative early music vocal-instrumental ensemble Zefiro Torna is internationally renowned for its inimitable interdisciplinarity. Zefiro Torna brings to life the cultural heritage from the middle ages, renaissance and baroque in a unique way. The ensemble does not limit itself to a merely historical approach but combines it with other musical traditions, as well as literature, science, philosophy and current art expressions in the field of fine arts, theatre and dance. This results in fascinating pieces of ‘Gesamtkunst’ around a variety of symbolic or allegorical themes.

Tracklisting:
1. O spectabiles viri
2. La Rosee des larmes
3. Sous le noyer
4. Les Roses de Saadi
5. A un lilas
6. Yggdrasil / Fossegangar
7. Balsamus et munda cera
8. Sous le figuier I
9. Purior in vicis
10. Sous le figuier II
11. Ou rien ne bouge
12. Le doux desir douloureux
13. Meninas vamos a Murta
14. Artemisia absinthium (polska)
15. To Yasemi