TARANTATA:
Dance of the Ancient Spider
Alessandra Belloni
SOUNDS TRUE
STA MM00117D
2000
The mystical-erotic trance
rituals of southern Italy...haunting prayers to the Black Madonna
and the Goddess of the Mediterranean...the breathtaking love songs
of its storied islands - from the dawn of Italy's magical-spiritual
song tradition comes Alessandra Belloni's new release, TARANTATA:
Dance of the Ancient Spider. With her soaring mezzo-soprano and
mesmerizing tambourine rhythms, Alessandra casts a spellbinding web
of sensuality spun from the tarantella-the ecstatic rites used to
cure young women of a mysterious affliction known as "the bite
of the ancient spider."
