 Later that year, Anggun was signed to Columbia France and Sony Music Entertainment, making her the first Indonesian citizen in history to join an international major label.The album was produced entirely by Erick Benzi who also arranged, engineered, mixed, and wrote majority of the songs.Other songwriters working for the album include Jacques Veneruso, Herve Teboul, and Nicolas Mingot, as well as Nikki Matheson who was responsible in translating all the original French songs from "Au nom de la lune" into English for "Snow on the Sahara".