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Arakne Mediterranea





Arakne Mediterranea is an association, based in Martignano in the Southern Italian region of Salento, which for 10 years, together with the co-operation of the University of Lecce, has been dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of the traditions and folk cultures of Salento. It owes its name to the young princess who, according to the myth told by Ovidio, is transformed into a spider by the goddess Athena after a weaving contest. The association has given rise to numerous dance companies and folk songs, composed by Giorgio Di Lecce (who is the Director), Imma Giannuzzi, Gabriella Licciardi, Graziella Paiano, Pierangelo e Giovanni Colucci, Francesca Della Monaca, Maria Negro, Gianluca Milanese, Francesco Del Prete, Francesco Frascella, Roberto Chiga and Elio Giordano. Tretarante is therefore a precious, well-researched record, completely dedicated to the tradition of tarantismo and its modern day forms: the Tretarante (three tarantas) to which the title of the album alludes. That is, the Pizzica-Taranta (a ‘healing’ dance, both individual and group, which takes its origins from the very ancient healing rite of the tarantati (people bitten by the tarantula) and their pilgrimage to Galatina; declared in Ernesto De Martino’s studies to be of wide cultural importance); the Pizzica de core (or ‘pizzica’ (bite) of joy: basically, a ‘jumping’ dance performed in mixed couples with a fast rhythm which today everyone, both young and old, dance especially at local festivals, weddings, christenings, family parties, whereas once it was danced in families, in groups with couples in a line or in squares of 4 couples); the Pizzica-scherma (or dance of the knives,: a dance for couples which takes place in the night between the 15th and 16th of August, during the feast of Saint Rocco, in Ruffano (Lecce), in the past the dancers held knives and it always brought together the best tambourine players, and saw endless dances and night-time contests).
In a period where tarantellas, the pizzica and taranta have been put under the spotlight, a time when they are starting to get the attention they deserve, Tretarante is an authentic reminder of these important folk traditions. An album which offers both the rigour and the warmth of genuine, deeply felt traditional dances, a reminder to us modern day, stressed individuals, of our social and artistic roots, which are capable of bringing people together and are far removed from any banal folk revival or quaint performance for visiting tourists.

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Tamburi del Vesuvio




The percussionists from Naples have given shape, along with the Arabian, Cuban and African rhythms, to an amazingly intensive fusion of tarantella, tammorra and other music-forms from Southern Italy. The ethno-cultural integration among different, at first sight incompatible corpuses is the initial idea of this project, which exhibits all its strength and primordial fervour at its best in live performances. The group has brought to perfection the explosive charge, a sort of "sound barrier", which at times in a passionate and at times in a delicate way introduces the audience to the fusion of tradition and modernity, in the world of polyrhythmic, Mediterranean melodies and "short sound sketches" built on the interaction of Mediterranean rhythms and dances.
The performance of Tamburi del Vesuvio is sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture in Zagreb.


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Alles in allem hat diese Musik alles, um bei grauen Wintertagen etwas mediterrane Kraft zu tanken - ciao miro