[1] The album enjoyed mainstream success, particularly in Italy and the UK.

The inside of the CD booklet reads "If it were a story it would be set on the seafront of a long beach.

His gaze lingers occasionally to look at some object or fragment brought from the sea.

Einaudi claimed that he wrote the piece "Le onde" when he was thinking of The Waves.

It builds up texture incorporating a melody in the right hand and long fast arpeggios in the left.