- country:Italy
- style(s):Ethnic
- label:ALFAMUSIC
- artist contact:ALFAMUSIC - Label & Publishing
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Nistanimera, the group formed by Ettore Castagna, in Calabrian Greek means “night and day” and refers to the uninterrupted flow of time. It is a modality which permits the dream to enter the reality, a particular way of experiencing time as both joy and pain. The group comprises musicians from southern Calabria and the Salento, with various experiences in the fields of research and revival in these two cultural-geographical areas.
Nistanimera - The Players:
Ettore Castagna: lyre, chitarra battente (a guitar whose main function is percussive, found all over southern
Italy but particularly common in Cala-bria) malarruni (Jews’ harp), frauta (an ephemeral harmonic instrument, devoid of finger-holes, made from bark), sulavrucia (double flute having two pipes of equal length).
Piero Crucitti: button accordion, ninarelli (an empty shallow drum-frame with three lines of small metal rattles; often used by children), tam-bureddu (shallow-framed, opened-ended, goat-skin tambourine, with metal rattles, held in and moved by the weaker hand, beaten using the palm and fingers of the stronger one).
Diego Pizzimenti: tambureddu, frischiettu e ca-stagnara (ephemeral harmonic flutes) ciarameddi (bag-pipes) voice, French guitar (modern me-tal-stringed, acoustic guitar).
Valentino Santagàti: voice, chitarra battente, French guitar.
Anna Cinzia Villani: voice, tambureddu, button accordion, mouth organ, seggia (low, wooden, straw-bottomed kitchen chair, used in the not too remote pregas-stove era to gain easy access to the fire while cooking).