Info

category: CD album

label: Sugar/Universal Music
(from 2006 Sugar/Warner Music Italia)

original release date: 2001

released in: Italy

graphic design: Marcello Dolcini and Marco Olivero

photo: Simone Barberis

Notes

Then Comes The Sun is Elisa’s third album.

Recorded in California, between Sausalito and Berkley, and released in 2001, it is produced by Corrado Rustici with whom Elisa had already worked for her debut.

The mood of this work is more quiet and inner. «These songs are about feelings, moods of abandonment, love and friendship» Elisa states.

The album tells about life experiences, people encountered, changing of inner feelings, magical places and smells, but also and especially of sounds that blend with the amazing harmonies of one of the greatest voices of the contemporary music scene.

Elisa has grown up. She is no longer just the unknown girl and impulsive girl of 'Pipes & Flowers' nor the rational performer of 'Asile's World'. She is definitely more mature, she has discovered her dimension as well as her essential convictions, she writes and composes with the heart and, with her usual disarming simplicity, she wants to tell about what she feels. It is in this atmosphere that a song as 'Heaven Out Of Hell' rises, a song dedicated to her mother, the woman who makes, according to the words of the song, "heaven out of hell".

Corrado Rustici also takes part in the recordings as a musician, by playing guitars, keyboards and the hammond organ, along with Davide 'Danzi' De Vito (drums), Davide Pezzin (bass), Enrique Gonzalez Muller (cuatro), and the Turtle Island String Quartet (strings). Elisa herself plays the guitar and the keyboards.

Oddly enough, the album 'Then Comes The Sun' is the first work of Elisa to enter the charts on iTunes America and Canada. In fact in 2007, six years after its Italian release, the American television talent show ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’ (see biography) uses the songs 'Dancing' and 'Rock Your Soul', already available on iTunes. Instantantaneously, the album was catapulted onto the American and Canadian charts thanks to word of mouth of those who had accidentally stumbled onto Elisa’s music. Many positive comments and reviews after this event opened the doors for Elisa to the American market.

Elisa confesses that: «'Dancing' is a very hard song to sing because it tells about choosing to live a moment deeply then letting go, knowing that it is only a moment and after that there will be nothing. Nevertheless you need to lose yourself completely». 'Rock Your Soul' is the ‘male’ song of album, dedicated to her father. «It’s a song of peace, almost hipsters, about the wish of union that is stronger than anything else».