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Tatti Twist / Jug Band Colline Metallifere

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Following two teasers, here we go with the full Tatti Twist by the Jug Band Colline Metallifere with its extended crew of biped and quadruped dancers! We hope you like it, and if you like it a lot you can also support our project (click here). For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

In between the grooves, see how the JBCM operates.

I went down to Tuscany looking for a place to be and I found its name Tatti, oh yeah

Then I found myself a house, with a bird a cat and a mouse, and a great big scenic view, and you

Tatti bar (x6)

Se tu balli il twist – con Wolfgang – balli il twist con chi – con Wolgang – se tu balli il twist, o yeah

I play music with my friends, we play music ’till we bend, the amusement never ends, oh yeah

but there’s something that I miss, just to reach my total bliss, and it’s your great big wet kiss, oh yes

(RIT).

More background information about the song

At times we try to sing about somewhat technical topics (e.g. nutrition), in other cases about “cosmic” issues (night sky and light pollution), at times about alternative viewpoints on  “slow mobility”…with the Tatti Twist we decided to take a lighter approach…

Wolfang Scheibe: 77 anni e 3’44” di twist come se non ci fosse un domani.

….we put together our one-string bass player’s track record as a twist dancer (in the Sixties Wolfgang Scheibe used to compete in national dance contests), with the story of many foreign folks who discover Tuscany as a promised land. Unlike other lyrics, where we tend to draw a conclusion, here the story remains suspended, and the beat takes over (but we will write the final lyrics at some point).

Since January we then sent invitations to our community, to do the Twist in their favourite location, and the results of this call was edited in the video. Participation was quite good…we had numerous expressions of interest, and within these, a less-shy gang of around forty people, two dogs, and a horse became our pop-up dance company (we don’t know if a dancing horse has already been seen in a musical video, but we think it is quite rare if not unique!)

The reference to “Tatti” in the lyrics is in fact about two places…one is the village in the territory of Massa Marittima, Southern Tuscany, in the Metalliferous Hills, where two of the band members live. The other is the Tatti Bar (today called “Tatti Stay and See”), a very hip place downtown Stuttgart, Germany, which in fact took its name from the Tuscan hamlet (this story is further detailed in this newspaper article from last year).

The Tatti Twist is one of six songs produced by the Jug Band Colline Metallifere during the Winter, which you will be invited to check out together with the rest of our repertoire while the Spring unfolds, as we approch the June Gran(i)Tour in Germany.

For those of you who would really like to dig deeper, we encourage you to watch the December 2021 show at Radio Deejay Fox (with a transcript in English), and this presentation from last September.

Roosters singing by the Emilia State Road entering Milano (Dec. 24, 2023)

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According to the Italian census office (ISTAT), in the early Nineties within the municipality of Milan there were 1500 cows, plus more animals that I do not recall at the time of writing. Thirty years later, at least a couple of roosters remain. We were not able to check if they are little or red, just next to the “imperial cruisers” (the various corporate headquarter offices located in the area. This was around 7AM:

Fog from Valdera under Montecatini Val di Cecina (Pisa) – Dec. 7, 2023

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We have been roaming around Val di Cecina and Valdera (the southernmost part of the province of Pisa) for over five years, and we never observed fog in such a scenic form. Our photo report will follow. For other forms of observation and mapping by the pibinko.org network:

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