BALSAM is a laboratory that stimulates the senses. An alchemical concert in which music mixes with scents, flavors and surprising sensations and where sounds are transformed into images.
The enchanting music takes you along traditional songs from Portugal, Greece and Iceland, mystical sounds of Hildegarde Von Bingen, polyphonic music of the 15th century and contemporary compositions of Zefiro Torna. The texts of the songs are inspired by verses from the Song of Songs, poems by Virgil and Horace, poetry by contemporaries of Baudelaire and Verhaeren. It is about the game of love, desire and melancholy, the sweet scent of jasmine and the beauty of a tree. A tribute to the healing, stimulating and enchanting virtues of herbs and plants. The songs celebrate above all nature, imposing and unfathomable.
You witness fascinating alchemical processes. Drops turn into edible pearls, a flower bud causes an electric sensation on the tongue, charcoal turns into a delicacy. The alchemists offer you unknown tastes and scents. BALSAM makes you dream, is both spiritual and sensory, earthly and heavenly. An ode to life and its mystery.