Huge Tip! Originally issued in 1978 by Cetra, Follie Del Divino Spirito Santo emerges from a singular moment in Antonio Infantino's artistic practice - a moment when his early immersion in international Beat circles and avant-garde gestural music had crystallized into something entirely his own: a ritualistic and shamanic engagement with the musical traditions of Southern Italy.

From 1964 onward, Infantino had moved through collaborative circles with Vittorio Gelmetti, Sylvano Bussotti, Pietro Grossi, Charlotte Moorman, Giuseppe Chiari, and Alvin Curran - a network that stretched across Europe and positioned him within experimental music's most vital currents. Yet his attachment to the rural world - rooted in childhood spent in Matera - redirected these energies toward a radically different project: a deep research into tarantism, that mysterious phenomenon wherein dance becomes the sole pathway to healing, wherein rhythm and trance dissolve the boundary between the sacred and the profane.

The recordings on this album focus obsessively on the mystery of death and the sacraments, on the light of the spirit and the divine that descends and conquers souls. But tarantism here carries more than folklore - it carries the weight of social and political meaning. The album moves from lullabies to children's rhymes, from festival songs to songs of direct denunciation, addressing the atavic wounds of the Meridione: emigration, unemployment, the brutalities that strip bare the lives of the poor and oppressed. Nine compositions built on obsessive, hypnotic rhythms played on the humble instruments of Southern tradition - the cupo cupo, beaten guitar, frame drums - layered with voices that shift between incantation and direct political witness. Behind the tight and insistent percussion, the colours of the squares and the scratchy string arrangements emerge. The magical sound of the bagpipes drifts through village alleys, carried on voices that remember a peasant world that no longer exists materially but persists in collective memory.

The phenomenon of Tarantism remains at the core - the power of dance as a symbol of transformation and revolt, a therapeutic process of final healing. What emerges is a synthesis of trance-music and contemporary urgency, grounded in lived cultural practice. Folk music here celebrates a deep sense of community, the joys and sorrows shared across generations, dance and music as secular forms of liberation. Infantino sings of minor cultures, the marginalized and oppressed, their resistance woven into rhythm, their survival into sound.

For forty-five years, this work has remained largely unavailable - a gap in the historical record for those mapping the vast territory of post-war Italian creativity. The Black Sweat reissue restores this mind-blowing gesture to circulation in both LP and CD formats, finally making audible again what has long deserved to be heard.