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Artist
  
Aktuala

Genre
  
Pop

Release date
  
1976

Label
  
Bla Bla Records

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Tappeto Volante ("Flying Carpet") is the third and final album by Italian world music pioneers Aktuala. It was released on Bla Bla records in 1976. It is the second recording of percussionist Trilok Gurtu

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Profile

It is a mixture of live and studio recordings, mostly recorded in Morocco after a year spent traveling and playing there. The resulting recordings were then interspersed with studio recordings featuring electronic enhancements. This latter studio compositional style point to Walter Maioli's next project, Futuro Antico in which such mixtures dominated. There are shorter tracks than on the previous recordings but they have segues making a collage effect.

Musicians

The musicians are:

  • Walter Maioli: Arabic oboe, wooden flute, naj, bass flute, maranzano, bass harmonica, sil-sil,seeds, desert flute, sea triton, zampogna, reeds, whistles, bells
  • Daniele Cavallanti: soprano saxophone, dolak, derbuka
  • Antonio Cerantola: acoustic guitar
  • Kela Rangoni Macchiavelli: zanza, tamboura, maracas, seeds, rings
  • Fabrizio Cassanoi: sitar
  • Marjon Klok: harp, tamboura, bells, sil-sil, cymbals
  • Trilok Gurtu: tabla, snake drums, Moroccan bongos, cymbals, xylophone, cow bells, sil-sil, wood block

    • Track listing

    The tracks are:

    1. Churinga
    2. Ohnedaruth
    3. Ugula Baliue African Planet
    4. Il Ritmo Del Cammello (The Rhythm of the Camel)
    5. Hare
    6. Mr Trilok
    7. Chitarra E Piffero (Guitar and Pipes)
    8. Echo Raga
    9. Mediterraneo
    10. Flash
    11. Waruna
    12. Aksak
    13. Nettuno Dio Del Mare (Neptune God of the Sea)

    Songs

    1Churinga0:49
    2Ohnedaruth5:23
    3Ugula Baliuè African Planet3:30

    References

    Tapetto Volante Wikipedia
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