The album contains twelve compositions to the poems of Czesław Miłosz and his favourite poets: Anna Świrszczyńska, Jane Hirshfield and Denise Levertov. In October, 2011 EMI Music Poland published another version of the album, called Księga olśnień (which is the Polish translation of A Book of Luminous Things) with the same songs being performed in Polish. Apart from the language, the only difference between the two versions is in the song This Only (Polish: To jedno), which in the English version is performed by Aga Zaryan as sole vocalist, while in the Polish version she was joined by Grzegorz Turnau.
Recorded at Castle Oaks Studios in Calabasas, California in spring 2011.
Track listing
No.
Title
Lyrics
Composition
Length
1.
"Music Like Water"
Jane Hiershfield
Michał Tokaj
5:11
2.
"Like a He-Bear and She-Bear/ Falling Asleep/ Sleepy Eyelashes"