DESCRIPTION:
TARANTA
(M. Durante, Ludovico Einaudi)

"IF YOU DANCE ALONE YOU CANNOT HEAL"

"SE BALLI SOLO NON TI PUOI CURARE"

Director: Gabriele Surdo
Starring: CGS
Dop: Flavio&Frank
Concept: G. Surdo
Editing: G. Surdo
Camera Operator: Maham Mehrabi
Key Grip: Luca Perenich
Dop Assistant: Consiglio Manni
Hair / Make-up: Melissa Mariano
Soundtrack: Taranta (Quaranta / Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino / Ponderosa music&art, Italy 2015)
ISRC CODE: IT50X1500001

CGS
Mauro Durante: violin, tamburello, backing vocals
Giulio Bianco: recorders, bagpipes, harmonica, flutes, bass
Emanuele Licci: vocals, guitar, bouzouki
Massimiliano Morabito: organetto
Giancarlo Paglialunga: vocals, tamburello, bendir, tapan
Silvia Perrone: dance
Alessia Tondo: vocals, castanets, percussion


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TARANTA
(lyrics: M. Durante / music: L. Einaudi, M. Durante)

io tegnu nu tormentu intra lu piettu
ca me consuma e nu se ferma mai

me tremula la terra sutta li peti
nu c’è mai fine pe lu miu cadire

quiddhu ca mangiu nu tene sapore
pe mie nu c’è chiui luce ne culore

la gente sapia comu t’i curare
ci lu tou male se chiama’ taranta

e osce ca li tempi hannu cangiati
ci è ca po sentire lu miu dulore

e ci me porta l’acqua pe sanare
a ci chiedu la grazia pe guarire

nu sacciu ci è taranta ca me tene
ma nu me lassa e me face mpaccire

ci è taranta nu me abbandunare
ci balli sulu nu te puei curare

ci e’ taranta lassala ballare
ci e’ malencunia cacciala fore



[en]

I hold anguish in my chest
this is killing me and never stops

the ground is trembling under my feet
there’s no stopping me falling

what I eat has no taste
for me there is no more light nor color

people knew how you had to cure yourself
If your ilness was called taranta

And now that times have changed
who can feel my pain

who brings me the water to cure
who shall I ask to grant me recovery

I don’t know if it’s taranta that got me
but it doesn’t let me and makes me crazy

if it’s taranta don’t abandon me
if you dance alone you cannot heal

if it’s taranta let her dance
if it’s melancholy throw it out