"Terra Arsa" - "land burnt" by the sun: here is where the tarantella was born, during the cyclic moments of uncertainty of life in the fields, when the rhythm of nature and farm work could mean a dignified year or one of hunger and misery. In the scorching heat, Melancholy was sometimes cured by musicians with melodies which took your imagination far away from the countryside. This new record contains, amongst others, also several of these
tracks, in which the theme of love became intwined with that of the
passionate and conflictual relationship with the sea, whose immense waters could only placate the long thirst of the soul.
Terra Arsa gathers the sounds, images and suggestions coming from the human and musical vicissitudes we have experienced in the last few years. The result is a handful of photos which depict scenes stolen from everyday life, work songs, conversations with the sea, loneliness, secrets, sun-baked souls, partying sounds.
Our attempt as musicians and composers is that of reviving tradition via energy, inspiration, tastes which vary according to each person's
sensitivity. In this second album, too, the respect and gratitude for the elderly singers who passed down our oral traditions remains very strong, however the echoes present in our music are no longer simply those of their voices and their instruments but also those of other people who mixed amongst them, who in the past were not so recognised but are today clearer thanks to the greater awareness of how different cultures have always mixed.
Terra Arsa started its journey with a rethinking of tradition and came to land, unexpectedly, with new original music, which uses our dialects as a pretext for weaving new sounds.

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