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BALLATI TUTTI QUANTI BALLATI FORTE

by CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO (Salento Puglia)

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Ballati tutti Quanti 04:35
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Ballate tutti quanti (Everybody dance) This is a random succession of verses as they are sung by the songwriter in his concerts, and as the singers of “pizzica “ usually sing, by joining verses of tarantismo with lullabies and other songs.
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Mara l'acqua 03:04
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Ni pizzicau lu core 04:30
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Ammera a Lecce 03:40
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Kali nifta 03:38
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Pizzeca caddhipulina 03:40
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Comu è bellu 02:54
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Beddha ci stai luntanu 02:00
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Coji la rosa 03:17
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Lu rusciu 03:24
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Pizzica nà ni nà 03:26
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Quannu te llai la facce 03:45
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Ninnananna Tarantata 12:16
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Ballati Tutti Quanti Ballati Forti is the recording by the group CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO, one of the first group to present traditional music from Puglia (Southern Italy).
Ballati Tutti Quanti Ballati Forti collects thirteen songs from the traditional repertoire arranged by Daniele Durante and the other members of the group. The texts tell story of the tarantism and other trance phenomenon of the area as well as of other activities related to the local daily life.
Salento, a «cross-roads» area for historical reasons, is the homeland of tarantism (a unique cultural phenomenon of trances and possessions in Italy). A phenomenon that has survived till our days in a context considered completely assimilated by Western civilisation. The second part of the CD title - ca taranta è viva e nun è morta (the taranta is alive and it is not dead) - outlines this conditions.
With the sociological and economical changes also the meaning of tarantism has changed. To think pizzica-tarantata has remained unchanged through the various revolution of the modern society (diminishing of the prevalence of the agriculture, presence of new cultural models via the radio and Tv emigration to foreign lands, ...) is completely wrong. The tarantism, filmed and studied around the end of the 1950s by E. De Martino and his team today is finished, because it is finished the believing that the tarantola (a type of spider) bites and provokes sickness. What today we can do is to observe and find out the roots, still alive, of the old culture and see how they are transformed to live in our modern culture. The young people today do not have direct experience of the hard life of peasant but nevertheless they suffer the same frustrations and difficulties in living their lives as it happened to the previous generations. The new tarantati aren’t possessed by evil spirits but surely are looking for a common god, they joint together in hundreds, take the drums and dance and sing looking for a trance state where the suffering are gone and they feel well.

CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO was the first group of folklore research in Puglia. It has been active since 1975 and has always attended all musical events in connection with the folk subcultures. They rediscovered their own traditions overcoming the obstacles created by the modern society. For years the idea of an old culture with values has been banned in favour of the progress of the new era. The old ideas were only prejudices and fantasies to fight against and diminished as inferior believings. CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO has won against this «modern» ideas and keep on presenting the strength and sense of a tradition still alive.

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released January 1, 1998

grazie a:
Antonio Baldassarre, per aver creduto in questo lavoro
Beppe Greppi, per i preziosi consigli
Yuri Avantaggiato per la fisarmonica in Coji la rosa
Registrato e mixato presso lo studio YURI ( Maglie - Le)

Rossella Pinto: female vocal
Daniele Durante: voce, chitarra, mandolino, fisarmonica, organetto
Piero Simone:male vocal, guitar
Nando Todisco: male vocal Greek lute,
Gigi Celestino: tamburello e percussioni
Diego De Razza: violino
Rocco Zecca: voce, tamburello e percussioni

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