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Release Date: 22-02-2000
Label: Sounds True
Catalog Number: MM00117D
Barcode: 600835011723
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pizzicarella  | 9 | Madonna della Grazia |
| 2 | Ave Mama e Deu | 10 | Fimmene Fimmene |
| 3 | Ballo Tondo | 11 | Tarantella di Sannicandro |
| 4 | Ave Maria di Montserrat | 12 | Tu Bella |
| 5 | Canto di Sant'Irene | 13 | Tarantella alla Carpinese |
| 6 | Sola Sola | 14 | Tarantella di San Michele |
| 7 | Agur lziarko | 15 | Canto della Luna |
| 8 | Canto della Madonna di Montserrato | 16 | Inno al Brasile |
Description:
For more than two decades, singer and percussionist Alessandra Belloni has gathered the lost songs of southern Italy's earliest musical roots. On Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider, Alessandra Belloni weaves a spellbinding web of sensuality drawn from the heart of this tradition, the tarantella, ordance of the ancient spider. These are the songs and rhythms that were used centuries ago to cure young women of an affliction known as the bite of the ancient spider. The cause of this paralysis, reveals Alessandra, was a life deprived of freedom, social, sexual, or spiritual and the single cure was the ecstatic spiritual release created by the the tarantella. Now, on Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider, you will join Alessandra Belloni and a stunning ensemble of world-class musicians as they fuse the passion of this tradition with distinctive influences from Brazil, North Africa and Latin America to ignite the healing power of this lost music for all of us today.
