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TARANTULA RUBRA is Anna Nacci, a Sociologist and researcher; she created a radio programme to broadcast popular music from Southern Italy as well as the Mediterranean and all the world's Souths.TARANTULA RUBRA began in 1999 talking about the taranta that' s a myth and a rhythm which occurs throughout the world and which unites all the countries.

It's the obsessive and repetitive rhythm of the heart, of the drum; it can bring us to trance, to a feeling of ecstasy, so that we can express our psychological crises, our anxiety, our depressions. It lets us shout, react and rebel against oppressions; it allows us to consciously express our own process of growth and transformation.

The taranta appeared in about the year 1000 in Salento, Southern Puglia, and during the following period spread throughout the South Italy. But it is also kown as hadra (a typical dance from Algeria and Morocco involving jinn spirits); as candomblé in Brazil, santerìa in Cuba and so on. Human beings have always needed music and dance as antidepressivant, and a form of cathartic therapy.

TARANTULA RUBRA was born out of these ideas, and partly thanks to enthusiastic audience there was a book publisched in 2000 which includes a CD. There is also a short essay on tarantism. Many famous musicians have been guest of TARANTULA RUBRA at the RADIO ONDA ROSSA studios: Teresa De Sio, Eugenio Bennato, Alfio Antico, the Nidi d'Arac, Antonello Ricci, and so on…

Some of these artists have given important interviews which have been published in the book, anc these may be seen as an interpretation of "NEOTARANTISM", the phenomenon of the new millennium. The book also contains a small guide to the enclosed CD, as well as songs, translations and photos of the artists. The CD contains 12 wonderful tracks which have been selected to highlight themes discussed in the radio programmes.

TARANTULA RUBRA has published in 2001 another cd: Pizzica la Tarantula.

On January 2003 she organized the second roman meeting at the Aula Magna of the University “La Sapienza”, a meeting called “Musiche, Culture, Tradizioni del Centro Sud Italia e dintorni”
In 2004 a new book was published, the most important essay of Anna Nacci, “NEOTARANTISMO – Pizzica, transe e riti dalle campagne alle metropoli”.

The third compilation is enclosed to the book, and it’s PIZZICA LA TARANTULA 2

In 2007 produced "JESCE FORE - One year of music and words together Rebibbia's prisoners", an essay with a CD recordered with the TARANTULA RUBRA ENSEMBLE, the prisonsers and the biggest musicians of Italian world music (and not only Italian). The essay has got a DVD too with a move that explains the year at Rebibbia Jail with prisonsers that decided to work in this experiment; a work that showed how world music can be a good therapy for prisoners too, with new possibilities and new ways. On August 2008 the movie won the first premium at the EPIZEPHIRY FILM FESTIVAL 2008 for the BEST REPORTAGE. You can buy it writing at info@tarantularubra.it

Taranta victims of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but your venom.

A virtual hug for all of you
from TARANTULA RUBRA

"Neotarantism" is a new word coined to describe a phenomenon which involves a wide range of people spread across the whole of Italy (and not just Italy); a movement which expresses the desire for an 'alternative' music, for new ways of communicating and relating and the need for a cathartic form of dance which can be used outside its historical context which was linked to suffering and shame; the need which arises in every period of history for liberation from everyday struggles and from oppression of various type, and which even today can still be expressed through music and dance. It is against globalisation, cultural uniformity and the attempt by the mass media to deny cultural diversity. There is a strong response from the grass roots; dens masses of young and not so young people packing into squares, social centres, pubs, theatres and any other kind of space where folk music is presented, and including pizzica, which sets off moments of mass dancing.

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