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Nidi D'Arac

Title: Taranta Container

Label: Galileo Music

Cat No:GMC045
Format:CD

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• To say that the traditional ‘taranta pizzica’ dance from the heel of Italy is infectious provides an insight into where Nidi d’Arac and band leader Alessandro Coppola are coming from. The title of the album – referring to the container vessels that virally connect every port and culture – provides another.

• The music of Nidi d’Arac infects the traditional with the beats and styles of modern dance music – dub, techno, rock – and from their base in the beautiful city of Lecce, set out to infect the world.

• However this updating of traditional music is done with great respect for the source material. The band has worked hard for the past 12 years, tracking down singers and dancers and learning from them. And they still use traditional acoustic instruments, violin, guitar, tamburello, as well as electric guitar, bass & drums.

• The live sound of the band is a key element to their success and Coppola wanted to get that feeling across on this new album. To this end seven songs are taken from the previous six albums (published between 1998 and 2007), but rearranged to capture the live sound of the band. The last 5 tracks on the album are remixes, by Piers Faccini, Gaudi, DK Click, MPS Pilot and DJ Mr Tos.

• They are appearing at Womad, Sidmouth, Cambridge Folk Festival (Tbc) & Nottingham City Riverside Festival, in 2011. “A classy modern take on Italy’s taranta” - fRoots Oct 2010.

Track Listing for Taranta Container
1. Ahi tamburieddhu!
2. Intro alle ronde
3. Tarantulae
4. Matinata
5. Gocce intro
6. Gocce
7. Ronde noe
8. Sta musica
9. Cerchio si apre cerchio si stringe
10. Klama
11. Ipocharia
12. 29 giugno (29 Giugno remixed by Mr Tos)

Reviews

Songlines - Ciro De Rosa

A cool display of the cutting edge sound of contemporary Salento.

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