A studio recording has been produced and released by Deutsche Grammophon[2] Nicholas Lens in Deutsche Grammophon insight: "The sense of peace took me back to a number of profoundly moving visits I had made to Yamanouchi, Kamakura – a verdant hillside neighbourhood in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan – site of the most ancient and highly treasured Rinzai Zen temples in the world.
The initial idea for L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S was born in the natural silence that rises from the rainy and vivid green, moss forest that surrounds these 13th-century temples".
Cave further described the libretto as "twelve lyrical pieces that tracked the birth, blooming, fracturing and rebirth of a human being—petitions to a divine maker demanding some sort of cosmic acknowledgement and finding it beautifully rendered in the gorgeous music that Nicholas composed.
Nicholas Lens and Nick Cave are credited as artistic producers (musical directors) of the recording.
Due to the severe lockdown period during early spring 2020 with all the known restrictions, and the fact that all professional music studios were closed, most of the album was exceptionally recorded at Lens' home in the Dansaert center of Brussels.