The Agricantus born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1979.
Their music is placed between ethnic music, ambient and trance. With "Tuareg" they arrive to the success in Italy and Europe.
Recorded in the desert of the Mali, with the participation of nomadic musicians and the use of traditional instruments, the album adjudicates
the Prize Tenco 1996 and the sixth place of classifies of the World Music Charts Europe of the same year.
In every album ancient and modern sounds are interlaced with the use of traditional musical instruments of different countries. They also sign sounds of various movies and for theatre.
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