Released: 2004
SSB 026 | EAN: 8018344070261 | 
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The name TRICIU derives from the place Muro Leccese, near Lecce in the deep south-east of Italy, where in 1994 a spontaneous activity of Salentine traditional music originated. Lead by the photographer and video-clip maker Fernando Bevilaqua, who grouped together around ten “bad” boys ready to take over the traditional celebrations, cultural associations and any other situations where the drumming sound of tamburello could be found in the area.
In this spontaneous beginning of a scene linking old forms of music expressions to new interpretations of the same, some characters even appeared from the Salentine reggae music scene: like Sud Sound System, Italian reggae heralds of international fame, who did improvisations on the tamburelli drums on the “Terra De Menzu”. TRICIU is the place of tradition, not only for music but for historical and artistic meanings. In this district actually the signs of millenary history still resist the test of time.
MASCARIMIRÌ, whose music background is in the Italian rock scene, developed a conscience for Salentine traditional music. Thus they were born. And after may years of work, they produced this new Cd. The concept behind it represents a challenge: finding a way to make contemporary traditional music using Salentine traditional music. The result in this recording is rather innovative. The sound of Pizzica takes new shapes in sound…Punk tarantulated versions mix with dub-punk tarantulated versions. These sounds create new Pizzica dances too. And there is also space for cross-cultural contaminations. When the Salentine rhythm “tambureddhu” meets with Pop Raï. Finally TRICIU, is a piece thought between the Salentine Pizzica and Ragamuffin, a sound broadly spread among the young ones and written precisely for them, as a testimony of this Salentine place and its importance.
CREDITS
Claudio "Cavallo" Giagnotti - vocals, wind instruments, percussion, harmonicaCosimo Giagnotti - vocals, tambureddhu
Alessio Amato - synthesizer, programming, electric and acoustic guitar
Alberto Stefanizzi - percussion
Dario Stefanizzi - sax tenore and clarinet on 05, 12
Simone Stefanizzi - trumpet on 05, 12
Carlo "Canaglia" De Pascali - tambureddhu on 02, 14
Carlo "Calabrese" De Pascali - vocals on 14
all tracks written by Carlo Giagnotti except:
01, 05, 07, 11, 12 - lyrics freely inspired to the Salento popular tradition
13 remix by Alessio Amato
15 recorded live in Torrepaduli, Lecce, at Ballait! Festival - sound engineer: Salvatore Ballotta
14 lyrics by Salvatore Siciliano
09 lyrics by Carmela Rinaldi
recorded in December 2005 and January 2006 at Essenza Studio, Spongano, Lecce
sound engineer: Alessandro Rizzello
mixed by Claudio "Cavallo" Giagnotti and Alessandro Rizzello
mastered at Essenza Studio
graphic layout: ANDesign, Milan
photos: Fotografi Bevilacqua
organization: Carlo "Calabrese" De Pascali
artistic production: Dilinò
project coordination: Marcello Lorrai, Luciano Cantone and Davide Rosa