Aramirè is
music
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group from
Salento
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,
Italy
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, specializing in various forms of local traditional music:
* The ''
pizzica'' version of the
Tarantella
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,
* songs of the
Grecìa Salentina
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region,
* traditional
love
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songs,
* and
polyphonic
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songs of love and
labour.
The group was formed in 1996 by members of the defunct group Canzoniere di Terra d'Otranto, who in the late 1950s began studying and restoring local traditional music. Of the three founders, Luigi Chiriatti, Roberto Raheli and Sandro Girasoli, only Raheli remains in 2004, as a result of a divergence on the commercial drift of folk music. They gave an illustrious concert at Carnegie Hall in New York in January 2007.
See also
*
Ghetonia
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References
External links
Official site(in
Italian
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)
Grecìa Salentina
Italian folklore
Italian folk music groups
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