Viva la Italia! 💃 Hot Summer tracks for Three Tune Tuesday 💃

Some evenings are better than others; from time to time it happens to me that I dive into the Youtube ocean of music, I surrender to its decisions and random transitions, and it drags me through strange waters, from one unknown island to another. Once during the second covid year I became obsessed with different performances of Tarantella (fascinating traditional Italian dance, its performing is believed to serve as an antidote to the bite of venomous tarantula spider - one should dance for hours until you're exhausted, and together with your sweat the spider's venom comes out too).

So, watching all the tarantellas Youtube was feeding to me, I found this video and momentarily fall in love with it; although it is not Tarantella. It is Pizzicarilla.

Officina Zoe - Pizzicarella (1997)

_{(Playback accompanied by Stella Michou dance, 2015)}

With this song, a long musical journey began. With the relentlessness of an insect, Youtube invariably swapped channels to the Notte della Taranta festival; I was sitting in the office, working and listening to one three-hour set after another, traveling to the beginning of time to the most early festival video captures available on YouTube, and periodically put my job to pause to watch the next amazing video sequence :)

I just stuck with this stuff for months and did not want to listen to anything else, I revisited it again and again. There were so many gems there, but this one was really my greatest find. Do watch the video, please.

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Zum Zum Zum @ Notte della Taranta festival (2016)

_{(Watch from 3:19:20)}

Am I supposed to provide out any comments? the video is self-explanatory...
this improvisational dance (actually ofc it is neatly choreographed... ah, does it matter?) is the quintessence of expression, joy, tomfoolery, joyful and leizure life... plus some beautiful Italian girls included! 😍 There is art in my list that I am ready to re-read, re-listen to, re-watch, absorb endlessly. This is one of them.

I found this original lyrics to the song (with EN translation I had to rely at Google service):

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I am not sure if it was initially a traditional song or not, but creating this blog today I found this original song from 1968:

Mina - Zum Zum Zum

_{(Song from 1968, remaster 2001)}

Youtube also suggested me this arrangement from French singer Sylvie Vartan. Check both and you will agree with me that sometimes a song in itself is nothing, but the performance and brilliant arrangement mean everything! Which version did you like best?

Sylvie Vartan - Zum Zum Zum

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Oh, and as for Tarantella -- this was one of the videos I enjoyed most... it really explained me a lot about the dance. I hope you enjoy it.

Tarantella Napoletana

_{(2012; dance by Egija Abaroviča, Agnese Čača, Inga Seņkāne, Alīna Mihailova)}

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PS. If you became obsessed with 'Notte della Taranta festival' like me, it will make me happy. The post goes for Three Tune Tuesday challenge run by @ablaze. Previous issues: 106 | 107 | 108

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