Label: Black Sweat Records

激ヤバなトランス・フォークミュージック!!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Antonio Infantino。自身が率いるグループと共にバジリカータ州の伝統的レパートリー曲を実験的に再構築した1975年名作[I Tarantolati]の初リイシュー版。クモのタランチュラに噛まれた時に引き起こされるトランス状態を音楽に置き換えたという、強迫的且つ催眠術的なリズムを集団でドカドカと打ち鳴らす高密度の現場録音。凄まじい内容です。









In the late 1960s, Antonio Infantino linked his name to the Beat world and to italian performance and gestural music circles (Bussotti, Chiari, Curran). A poet and singer, a tireless devotee of the musical traditions of Southern Italy, he focuses his research mainly on the mysterious phenomenon of Tarantismo, a cultural syndrome of hysterical type found in the Mediterranean air and made famous by the studies of Ernesto De Martino. With his group, Infantino twists and reinvents the traditional repertoire of Basilicata, creating an entirely new and original songbook. The music reflects the states of Trance induced by the bite of the spider tarantula, with obsessive and hypnotic rhythms characteristic of the incandescent blood of the peasant world. A deep and universal human sound, it also takes its cues from Dylan's folk revolution and the frenetic drums of North Africa.