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As Ian Anderson, director and editor of Froots Magazine, once commented "Nidi D'Arac explore a crossover between
the traditional musics of Southern Italy and "new musical tendencies’’(…) there's definitely something good going
on in Italy." fR180, June 1998
The music by NIDI D’ARAC is pure pleasure of dance and sound, it’s an ongoing party, it’s emotional involvement,
it’s spirituality.
The power of this versatile ensemble is an immediate and almost physical way through, thanks also to the audacious
attempt of mixing the traditional triplets rhythm of the tambourine of the Salento ‘pizzica’ used as a therapy
for the bite of tarantula spider, with the chaotic electronic digital reality.
Their concerts are somewhat comparable to raves where, next to the ancient score of the ‘pizzica’, there’s the
alienating rhythm of a metropolitan reality.
Inestimable the collaboration of voice, dance and performances (Vera Di Lecce) together with flute (Caterina Quaranta),
drums (Maurizio Catania), bass (Dodo Targa), and video-installations.
Lead singer of the band is the young musician from Lecce, Alessandro Coppola, whose creativity and love for his
land have produced a passionate and mindful research of contents right from the tradition, the musical, the
poetical, the folkloric ones of the Mediterranean culture, acquired and elaborated.
Guests and runners up at the 1998 edition of the Italian award for young musicians ‘Premio Tenco’, they were the
opening act for the Robert Plant concert in Rome and for Joe Zawinul at the 2000 edition of ‘Notte della
Taranta’.
They were co-authors, together with Enzo Avitabile e Mory Kante, of ‘Musica a scantinato (MANA E MANE, 1999).
Nidi d’Arac were also guests artists at the 1999 Simple Minds concert and at the Hooverphonic Rome concert in
September 2001.
From Salento to Portugal, from the Capoverde island to Spain, from London to Berlin, the band was able to export
their traditional culture bringing passion and expertise to most important European festivals.
