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Eugenio Bennato
& Taranta Power
Che Il Mediterraneo Sia
$17.99
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The artist says:
"Taranta Power" and "Let the Mediterranean be" began with the aim of setting off from our own shores, laden with history and poetry, and exporting our culture and our art all over the world, with no shame, but simply with the conviction that we are promoting a contemporary, vibrant movement. - Eugenio Bennato
"Let the Mediterranean be" is an expression that came out spontaneously, while I was searching around for a musical fragment that would sum up my present position on a musical journey that began many years ago. It is the road. I chose that led to the setting up of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare and later, Musicanova and then Taranta Power.
"Our roots in the south link us to a Mediterranean myth of peace and sharing. When I played in Algiers, I saw in an instant the melting away of suspicion in an audience entrenched in distrust of privileged, colonising Europe: after the first beats on the tamburello and the percussion guitar, the Algerian kids felt involved and began to participate in a music that belonged also to them. From this awareness of a real and not rhetorical Mediterranean communion we draw this energy along a musical voyage that can be a counterpoint to the overpowering behemoth of Anglo Saxon music that invades our soundwaves and our lives.
| "The opening title track's a pulsating wonderwork, full of driving pace and neat key changes. "From Naples, inventor of melody, to the tabors of Algiers", runs the English translation, and while Bennato intones a captivating soft-voiced Italian song over a subtle but frantic tarantella groove, Tunisia's Zaina Chabane launches into an Arabic rap and, just for this one track, there's an Algerian orchestra. You're transported straight out there into the centre of the Mediterranean, your ears picking up musical signals beaming in from all directions and welling up out of history. " - Ian A. Anderson, fROOTS (Read the complete review) |
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