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“Super Taranta is the new proposal of Gogol Bordello to break down the tension el’isteria global transforming all negative energy around us in positive, as did the tarantella originally.” Here is the statement of Eugene Hutz on the albums of his gypsy punk band: clear therefore that their concert in Salento, that strip of Puglia Squeezed between Lecce and the sea and home of Taranta, announced as the event of the summer. I was by those shares on vacation, could lose?
Incorporated within the South East Independent Festival, the concert Gogol was preceded by other band of gypsy tradition, the Balkans or Salento. From report Mascarimirì, expert training that has managed to reinvent the taranta in key dub, and Opa Cupa, phenomenal big band jazz / Balkan / Mediterranean / add-you-something-to-pleasure that for almost an hour has given us a ‘Explosion of energy irresistible.
E ‘midnight when Hutz salt on stage: blue trousers, naked torso and strafottente face baffuta that seems not to betray emotions. At his right exposure violinist Sergey Rjabtzev, companion and co-founder of the group. With just the first notes of “Sally” and the incredible happens: the prophecy of taranta comes and the masseria, stipata of people already tired for the long, hot day, explodes in a giant dance ensemble.
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