Against the backdrop of sea and the hills of the Cilento peninsula, this music video features the song Abballati - a tarantella rhythm with sounds of flamenco - playing accordion, guitars, drums and sax that accompany the dance of their ensual tarantella dancer. The Rotumbe are and ethno-folk world music group from Cilento with an extensive repertoire of traditional music and original songs which utilize the bells and the tarantella rhythm of tambourine and tammorra.
Rotumbe engaged in the project, "Cilento Music Art" with the aim of enhancing the cultural heritage, the traditions, the territory and the music of the Cilento (Campania). In 2011 Rotumbe produced the new album "Abballa appriesso to nui" with the record label IWM (Italian World Music). Enjoy... --GVI After attending high school in Potenza, Vittorio Camardese moved to Rome to undertake higher studies. He graduated in medicine, specializing in radiology, then began professional medical practice at the Ospedale S. Filippo Neri in Rome, later working at the Policlinico Umberto I, also in Rome. He evolved his musical style through teaching himself, and in amateur performances. But in 1956, he played on the RAI Italian television talent show Primo applauso, his first television appearance, in which he won first prize. The television programme Chitarra, amore mio featured him in 1965, and he was seen again in 1973 in the music-based talk show Speciale per voi. He regularly visited two of Rome's most important jazz venues, the Music Inn and Folkstudio. Here, he joined several famous musicians in performances, including Chet Baker, Tony Scott, Joe Venuti, Lelio Luttazzi, Romano Mussolini and Irio de Paula. In 1978 he met his partner with whom he remained for 18 years. At the time, she had a three-year-old son, Roberto Angelini, who went on to become a singer and songwriter. The same year also saw Camardese's final television appearance. His shy and modest nature, together with the pressure of performing on live television, caused him to turn down further requests for such shows. The first time I heard Tim O'Brien sing Megna's, it reminded me of growing up in our little New Jersey town on the cliffs above the Hudson River--and of
Pete the Peddler... Pete would stop his truck every few blocks, just about every other day, fully loaded with all sorts of fruits and vegetables, and he would sign out, "Pee-Chez, Pee-Chez" (peaches), "Tow-MAT-Tows!"..., nineteen cents a pound!" "Wa-tah-mel-OHN-ays!" He had a big open bed truck with the boxes of produce displayed at an angle on the back. The scale hung from a hook. The women would yell down their order from the windows, throw the money down in a paper bag, and he sometimes leave it on their stoop... or more often they'd come and get it and listen to neighborhood gossip. He would tip his wide-brimmed fedora as they paid and said good-bye. On a recent trip to Italy I was happy to see that Fruit and Vegetable trucks are still a common thing there. I miss them here. This video of Tim O'Brien singing his song "Megna's" tells a similar tale about a fruit and veggie truck. Enjoy. --Jerry Finzi |
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