Starts Friday July 8 edition of the XVII Sea Music, and could not do better. Stewart Copeland, who is considered one of the three best drummers in the history of music, and what the Olympian musical creativity with The Police, paid tribute to traditional Italian sound taranta.
A hectic night, where not stop dancing, to be completed with a performance by the great revelation of Italian music, the soulera Nina Zilli, which many call the Italian Amy Winehouse.
The evening will top the DJ Jesus Bombin, at dawn.
Tickets cost 25 euros.
Taranta is not the flamenco and it is not a night of songs miners.
If you read where it says taranta tarantula is another matter.
And is better understood.
The Night of the Tarantula is the name of a popular festival that is celebrated in towns of Salento, Apulia (Puglia in Italian) in August.
It's about a healing ritual against the bite of the tarantula.
For the victim, imagined or real, one of those spider while working in the field musicians were resorted to heal, with their tambourines, played to emancipate the poor.
It is assumed that the sweat caused by the frenetic dance acted as a repellent spider venom in her body.
So the dance was affected unceasingly that exorcism purifier.
For the anthropological meaning conceivable in a peasant society oppressive rule rigidly codified in the trance allowed women a certain freedom.
The celebration turned into one of the most important southern Italian peninsula, has its rhythm, pizzica.
It lasts for fifteen days, the central two weeks of August, in the heart of Salento.
And today the party attracts Melpignano end of more than 100,000 people In ten years it has tripled the number of spectators.
It is the greatest tribute to the pizzica salentina and its fusion with other music.
It all started in the late nineties when several people decided to organize a festival for the recovery of pizzica and, incidentally, or especially, revitalize the economy of the region.
In the magazine Mondomix, Phillipe Kra ¼ mm ensures that many attendees, from 20 to 40,000 each night carrying drums to join enthusiastically in the rhythms of the stage and at the end of the night is not uncommon to come across young people who have their hands bloody.
The tradition is represented by veteran singer Uccio Aloisi Cantori di Carpino or, but young and Torre di Paduli Tamburellisti or Ariacorte to innovative groups that can be added as Nidi D How Arach present this summer in La Mar de Músicas .
Tiziana Sforza has seven years ago, born of Ensemble La Notte Taranta, absorbing other groups and enrichment of all sections of instruments in an orchestra.
The task of directing the closing concert in Melpignano, have exercised from Joe Zawinul to Stewart Copeland, who signed the album, concert, August 17, 2003 and have been given the keys of the town.
They have also taken the lead Daniele Sepe, Piero Milesi, Vittorio Cosma, and Mauro Pagani Sparagna Ambrogio.
For the Giuseppe ethnomusicologist Gala, now converted pizzica is almost rave dancing and more, an emblem, a powerful claim, the claw of a cultural myth that creates new trends, entertainment, tourism, publishing and music market.
As the director of the evening needs no introduction: on your business card would suffice to Stewart Copeland, former Police drummer.
Son of a former CIA agent, Copeland was born on July 16, 1952 in Virginia (USA), and walk of the busiest in the most varied musical histories.
With it will be more than twenty musicians.
NINA ZILLI
What she says in the biographical notes on its website: Today I write what I sing.
And my name is Nina Zilli.
Zilli is your mother's maiden name and Nina put the singer Nina Simone.
Fraschetta Maria Chiara, born in Piacenza, in February 1983 and raised in the outskirts of the city.
Their songs could be described as a mix of vintage sounds of Italy of the sixties with the r & b soul of Amy Winehouse.
Motown and Stax.
With sixties pop and a little reggae, rocksteady and ska groups like his admired The Skatalites.
Presentation in Spain of the Italian which Thomas said Fernando Flores, in his informative pop Radio 5, as a young singer who claims the glamor of soul in the XXI century.
He did it by scheduling 50 thousand, a catchy song that has been included on the soundtrack of the film Ferzan Ã-zpetek vaganti Mine (I have something to say) and the video game Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.
With songs like L'uomo che donne Amavan him - the man who loved women, the title of a film by Truffaut, 'D'Bacio L'inferno or ad (d) io, edited on single discs, and a first compact thirteen cuts, Sempre lontano, published in February 2010 and spent several weeks among the best sellers from Italy, more than 60,000 copies, Nina Zilli has become a revelation of the Transalpine music.
His debut before television cameras goes back more than a decade while serving very young presenter of MTV.
And ten years ago in the music industry debuted as a singer Chiara & Gliscuri summer with a song called Tutti al mare.
Nina Zilli, who has studied opera singing and piano at the conservatory, he lived in Ireland and the United States, hence the bilingual ism.
At thirteen, performing with bands like The Jerks small.
And she too, has passed through the San Remo Festival winning awards from critics and radio and television in the category of New Generation and a better performance.
At the concerts of the volcanic Nina Zilli sound, plus their own compositions, songs by Adriano Celentano (Impazzivo per te) and Italian adaptations of classics like The Temptations his idols (My girl) and The Supremes (You Can not Hurry love).
Something like if a girl had given Mina around Detroit and Kingston.
JESÚS DJ Bowler
He was a founder of Mad Love with musician Nacho Mastretta, training with that recorded three albums, fusing styles such as boogaloo, ragamufing, latinsoul or funk ....
that would form the foundation of his future musical sessions and playing records.
Currently co-produced the radio program Soundclash (with J. Bayo) in DialSoul 100.4FM, where we review the most contemporary productions: broken beats, nu soul, nu jazz, along with primitive rhythms rooted in soulful music.
This activity complements professionally, with the music industry, sector discográfico.Puedes continue its in its three weekly residencies in Madrid: La Boca del Lobo, El Junco, and the Contraclub, or as a guest at his night sonidero entitled: Songs to mourn in company premises as Jazzclub, Tempo or Marula.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena