Today’s song is Andrea Bocelli’s Mille Lune Mille Onde (“A thousand moons, a thousand waves”) from his 2001 album Cieli di Toscana (“Tuscan skies”). It was written by Francesco Sartori, Claudio Corradini and Lucio Quarantotto, the same writing team behind the beautiful Con Te Partirò. I had never heard this song until last week when my mum mentioned it! Curiously it is the official song of all the Barilla pasta TV adverts – conjuring up images of moon-shaped pasta and wavy tagliatelle…

It’s the start of a new month here on 365Songs, so if it’s your first time on the site, find out more about the 365 Songs project or you can still see all of my August songs here.

https://soundcloud.com/mark-pentleton/mille-lune-mille-onde