‘Yuzu lemonade on a hot August afternoon. Isola was conceived, created and arranged by listening to Franco Battiato and Kikagaku Moyo albums at each of these stages. In the Island there are psychedelic places and scents, sublime atmospheres that only the heat can give, the warmth of the wind, the light scent of citrus, of yuzu lemonade, day and night, on the horizon. In the same year I returned after a long time to Sicily and Japan, it was the summer of 2023. Lemonades at the old harbor, children running in the sunny streets of Mazara’s casbah, the warm wind in the beaches, a sip of bitter liquor every night, dear friends from distant worlds. I wandered the bright streets of Mazara del Vallo, my hometown, watched the sun hit my body, my joy rediscover childhood. It was all there, my land, my love, my friends, my closest ties.’ – Meo Fusciini