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Go Dugong is back on Hyperjazz Records. The new album Meridies is the result of his ongoing investigative work into traditional Apulian music from the south of Italy, inspired by his hometown, Taranto, and the phenomenon of the Tarantella -- started with TRNT (2019). On a quest to push the boundaries of traditional Apulian music, Go Dugong's research has allowed him to rethink and rework these musical traditions of his homeland, leading to the creation of a soundtrack for an imaginative and futuristic ensemble of peasants and farmers. In Meridies, Go Dugong has collaborated with several musicians in order to combine traditional Apulian music with sounds and influences belonging to other Italian and Mediterranean regions, reinterpreting a genre that for many years has lived trapped in its canons. For Hyperjazz Records, Meridies represents another fundamental step in the reinterpretation of the rhythmic and musical tradition of Southern Italy, filtered through electronic synthesis and contemporary languages. Rhythmic pizzica interweave with organs, old synthesizers, lysergic guitars, and makeshift objects such as old cardboard boxes and cookware used as side percussions to the traditional tambourine, all immersed in a psychedelic magma of deep trance and hypnosis for the purpose of "healing".
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HJ 999EP
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This is the second release for the label curated by DJ Khalab, it is mixed by Cristiano Crisci (aka Clap! Clap!). Tarantella is a popular, magical dance and music from South Italy, that in ancient times was related to the ritual of exorcising hysterical people who were allegedly bitten by tarantula spiders, scorpions, snakes. Delirious people, named "tarantolati" after the poisonous spider, underwent therapeutic rites and dances, that drew them into a trance, healing status. Go Dugong is the moniker of Giulio Fonseca, musician and producer born in Apulia, Italy.
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