I did not, however, get to see any of Puglia's pizzica folk music and dance. This month's Transglobal World Music Chart has fixed that with an album by Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS), Meridiana, which is riding high in the top spot on the chart. The band, a seven-person ensemble with a dancer have taken Southern Italian pizzica music and dance and added sounds and musicians from outside the region to make the music more contemporary. Transglobal World Music Chart Top 20 June 2021 (Band, album title, record label)1. Ben Aylon · Xalam (Riverboat / World Music Network)7.

Source: Bangkok Post June 08, 2021 00:45 UTC