Antonio Infantino

Antonio Infantino (1944-2018) was an Italian musician, poet and architect, born in Sabaudia to a family from Basilicata that returned to Tricarico after the war. A figure of the Italian beat scene in the 1960s, he later turned the tarantella and the tarantism ritual of the south into a modern, politically charged trance music, above all with the Gruppo di Tricarico, which he founded in the mid-1970s. Infantino graduated in architecture in Florence. He worked with Vittorio Gelmetti, Sylvano Bussotti, Pietro Grossi and Giuseppe Chiari, and from 1966 he performed at the Folkstudio in Rome.