This double LP captures original field recordings of musicians-exorcists registered by Diego Carpitella, Ernesto de Martino and Alan Lomax in the late 1950’s in Puglia as well as six unique reworks by contemporary vanguard electronic musicians and producers such as: Bjorn Torske & Trym Sovdsnes (NO), LNS (CA), UFFE (DK), KMRU (KE), Bottin (IT), and Don’t DJ (DE).
After their first issue focus on Benga, a Kenyan musical movement, FLEE is proud to present its new project: Tarantismo: Odyssey of an Italian Ritual, available on 2LP Gatefold and as a bundle with 2LP Gatefold and a 168 pages Book. Dedicated to Tarentism, this project tells the story of a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, mobilizing frenetic rhythms and maniac dances, to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider. Trans-disciplinary, this effort of documentation and artistic re-interpretation of one Europes most mysterious trance phenomenon is comprised of a double LP vinyl compilation including original recordings from Italian Maestros Carpitella, Lomax and De Martino with reinterpretations[info sheet from distr.]