By Officina Zoe', a well–known musical group of "pizzica tarantata", an exciting rhythm from Salento Area in the deepest south of Italy

 

Since 1993 Officina Zoé has one of the groups to propose with most strength the musical traditions of the Salento area, especially the pizzica, that is the ancestral rhythm of Salento soul: exciting and touching, therapeutic and hilarious. From immemorial time pizzica explodes in its absorbing hypnotic expression. A frenzy that induces dance and obsessive movement, so much so that it was used in the past as a trance vehicle or even as a therapeutic source. One of the stronger elements in the musical rebirth of the whole of Southern Italy

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)