- country:Italy
- region:Napoli
- style(s):Ethnic, Folk
- label:ALFAMUSIC
- artist posted by:ALFAMUSIC - Label & Publishing
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The Vesuvio volcano heartbeat pervades the sounds and rythms of popular dances and songs of Campania and southern Italy.
For ages this fertile land has welcomed rythms from people coming from abroad, who crossed the Mare Nostrum, and settled in southern Italy.
Today the Vesuvio and its traditional drums leads the rhythm of ancient songs mixed with new interferences.
Nando Citarella, musician, researcher and performer of this tradition created a band of percusionnists, singers and dancers from different cultures and roots who give an archaic atmosphere to the vesuvian magma and its beating drums.
NANINELLA NANINA'(Vaffaticà)
Balla la taranta ca lu mali si ni va..., this is the recurent verse of this ancient dance performed since 600 years during village feasts and religious events in the Salento: the Pizzica pizzica or Taranta or Pizzica de Core and Pizzica Scherma (danced with knifes until 25 years ago).
The song written by Nando Citarella intends to present the richness and variety of aspects of several religious and popular traditions through the use of various drums Bata, djoum djoum, daolla, taballa and tamburins from Salento which together create a magic and obsessive rhythm.
Coming from the Grecia-Salentina voices and rhythms alternate themselves in the intent to frighten the spider (evil) still alive today in some of us (generally women) who all over the world live in a marginal status, always submitted to (male) authority and who use the dance to regain freedom, actually and ideally, through the strength provided by the moaning song and the beating of the drums.
This song is recorded on the last cd by Tamburi del Vesuvio: "Vaffatica"
