Label: Black Sweat Records

またまた激ヤバな記録が復刻!!1960年代後半より自身の活動をビートニクやイタリアの伝統音楽、パフォーマンス、ジェスチャー音楽と接続した、詩人であり歌手のAntonio Infantino。以前同レーベルが、同作家のタランチュラに噛まれた際のトランス状態の音楽を復刻していましたが、今度は1978年の音源を復刻。南イタリアの伝統音楽と儀式/シャーマニズムの関係性を表現、貧しさや抑圧された階級の文化について歌い、その背後では広場の様々なざわめき、不気味なストリングスのアレンジが浮かび上がる。前復刻作同様に異様な熱量を帯びた高内容。



First published in 1978 by Cetra, in this work Antonio Infantino continues to express his ritualistic and shamanic relationship with the musical traditions of Southern Italy. The recordings focus on the mystery of death and the sacraments, the light of the spirit and the divine that descends and conquers souls. The phenomenon of Tarantism is still strong, the power of dance as a symbol of transformation and revolt, a therapeutic process of final healing. Folk music celebrates a deep sense of community, the memory of a peasant world that no longer exists but is still alive in the collective memory. Behind the tight and insistent rhythm of the percussion, the voices of the people, the colours of the squares and the scratchy string arrangements always emerge. The magical sound of the bagpipes is lost in the alleys of the villages. Infantino sings of minor cultures, the poor and oppressed classes, who share joys and sorrows, dance and music as secular forms of liberation.