CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO
Pizzica indiavolata

CD 101

8030482001112
Ponderosa
Italia

 

The Salento folk music and especially the pizzica pizzica have experienced in the last fifteen years a veritable explosion of media attention and interest from an ever growing national and international level. The set of songs, dances and instruments typical of the Salento heritage today are very strong. In this, the hard work and commitment of the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, founded in 1975 was especially crucial. The new album features a selection of traditional songs of the repertoire Salento and Grecanico rearranged and presented in a modern, next to the proposed new original compositions, music and text. Daughter of the tradition of tarantism, Pizzica is a devilish music therapy to exorcise with ancestral sound and modern at the same time, the evils of our day. The album takes advantage of the presence of international guests such as the Malian kora master Ballake Sissoko and the Anglo-French singer-songwriter Piers Faccini, who also signed the text of the original compositions of the CD.


The Salento folk music and especially the pizzica pizzica have experienced in the last fifteen years a veritable explosion of media attention and interest from an ever growing national and international level. The set of songs, dances and instruments typical of the Salento heritage today are very strong. In this, the hard work and commitment of the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, founded in 1975 and led in the early years by Rina Durante, was especially crucial for being able to set up with intelligence and foresight painstaking research and the study of popular culture, formed the basis of all that has been achieved as a result of the traditional music of Salento. The work of the group was held without interruption until today, going from driving Rina in that of Daniel Durante, a founding member of the group, and finally, in 2007, that of his son Mauro. The handovers generational family and closely follow the normal practice of the popular traditions of transmitting knowledge and experience from generation to generation in order to perpetuate the artistic and cultural heritage over time. The new album features a selection of traditional songs of the repertoire Salento and Grecanico rearranged and presented in a modern, next to the proposed new original compositions, music and text. Daughter of the tradition of tarantism, Pizzica is a devilish music therapy to exorcise with ancestral sound and modern at the same time, the evils of our day. The album takes advantage of the presence of international guests such as the Malian kora master Ballake Sissoko and the Anglo-French singer-songwriter Piers Faccini, who also signed the text of the original compositions of the CD. Pizzica Indiavolata is a work of quality and professional maturity with which the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino confirms door-to-speech full of popular music of Salento received with great enthusiasm by the public who followed him on the stages of Italy and the world during the recent tour that hit the United States, Spain, Croatia, Canada and France.

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