Trance Routes: An Evening with Justin Adams & Mauro Durante

Think North African trance and post-punk grooves with a twist of Italian pizzica. This beguiling collaboration stems from a fascination with trance rhythms and their common role in otherwise radically different musical traditions. Justin Adams, guitarist, has worked with Robert Plant, Jah Wobble, and Sinead O’Connor. Mauro Durante is a leading authority of taranta and pizzica, the thrilling trance folk music of southern Italy. Durante conjures thundering rhythms out of a simple frame drum while the pair execute fiddle/electric guitar duets that are alternately fiery and filigree. Desert blues guitar combines with Maghreb chants, transported across the Mediterranean.