- artist:NANDO CITARELLA & TAMBURI DEL VESUVIO
- featured artist:RICCARDO TESI, LUCILLA GALEAZZI, MOHAMED ABDALAH
- release year:2002
- style(s):Ethnic, Folk
- country:Italy
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:ALFAMUSIC - Label & Publishing
- label:ALFAMUSIC
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The title itself is rythm, energy, tradition, deep Napolitan soul.
Vaffatica is Nando Citarella's new production, together with Tamburi del Vesuvio, excellent musicians and well known wonderful voices of Lucilla Galleazi and Maria Rosaria Omaggio.
Vaffaticà is rooted into Napolitan traditional music, with its many mediterranean accents; it's a trip into the soul of Naples, because through the very elegant use of his deep knowledge of this musical history, Nando Citarella offers a very rich interpretation of both folk and classical napolitan songs, spanning from ritual rythms to napolitan traditional classical songs and to lirical expression of the same culture. Excellent result.
Francesco Zimei
SPECIAL GUEST in VAFFATICA':
Lucilla GALEAZZI - Maria Rosaria OMAGGIO - Riccardo TESI - Tiziana D'ANGELO - Carlo MEZZANOTTE - Hussein NATA - AKIM - Carlo COSSU - Riccardo MEDILE - Marcello FIORINI - Alberto D'ALFONSO - Maria Giovanna MANENTE - Stefano ROSSINI - Giovanni IMPARATO - Luciano BELLINI - Orchestra Ensamble MEDITERRANEA - Quartetto Archi BIM
PIZZICA & TARANTA:
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).
NANINELLA NANINA' (D: Citarella) is the right song in VAFFATICA' which using the PIZZICA & TARANTA styles presents 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.