Gabriele Poso is an internationally recognized percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and recording artist from Italy. He has been preaching the gospel of tamburo music since studying it in his teens. The word “tamburo” in Italian simply means “drum.” That said, it is the beating heart of a genre-crossing, percussion-driven musical tradition that reflects Italy, Northern and Western Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Its presence and influence on four decades of Italian music — 1960s-1990s — can’t be overstated. These 11 tracks offer a kaleidoscope of hard-grooving tamburo style in jazz, library sound, rock, disco, funk, and film and TV soundtracks.
The record opens with an exotica version of Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington’s “Caravan” by…