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Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare

100–180 BPMcanzone folktarantella folkneapolitan villanella

1970s neapolitan canzone folk tarantella revival from the 1970s: tammorra frame drum, jingled tambourine, chitarra battente strum, hypnotic and raw in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

Style: Italian Canzone Folk · Related styles: Tarantella Folk, Folk, Confessional Folk, Acadian Folk

History

Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare revived the old vocal traditions of Naples and Campania, singing tammurriate, fronne and serenades in dialect with tight, piercing harmonies over frame drums, guitars and the mandoloncello. The group formed in Naples in the late 1960s around Eugenio Bennato, Carlo D'Angiò and Giovanni Mauriello, and its work took shape through collaboration with the ethnomusicologist and composer Roberto De Simone. Together they sought out songs that survived in villages or only in old manuscripts, including Neapolitan vocal music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Records such as Li sarracini adorano lu sole (1974) and Tarantella ca nun va 'bbona (1975) became key documents of the Italian folk revival. In 1976 De Simone's musical drama La gatta Cenerentola, performed with the group, was a major success. After a quieter 1980s they returned in the 1990s and began writing their own material. A listener knows them by driving tammorra rhythms, raw call-and-response singing and the sound of a southern Italian festival.

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