A children’s song in the Taranto dialect over a tambourine groove reworked from a traditional Calabrian ballad: that’s the architecture of “No Me Nganne,” the new single from Trevize, the project of Puglian producer and sound engineer Francesco Barletta, out 8 May.

Barletta grew up in Puglia and trained at the SAE in Milan and the Nut Academy in Naples, arriving at electronic music via an earlier life as a punk and metal guitarist. The return south pulled him toward the percussion traditions of the Mezzogiorno and their intersection with electronic production. The 2023 Folktronica residency, a collaboration between his Last Floor Studio and the World Music Academy, brought traditional musicians and electronic producers together in Puglia to develop exactly that territory.

The vocal is a nursery rhyme in tarantino dialect, placed above percussion that keeps a single, hard line from start to finish. Barletta roots the rhythm in a traditional Calabrian ballad and drives it through global bass production, pitching the track squarely at the electronic dancefloor.

Live, Trevize expands into a trio with Giovanni Chirico on winds and Federico Laganà on percussion. Laganà, a Salentine musician and member of Kalàscima, brings frame drum technique spanning the tamburello tradition and a range of Middle Eastern percussion. Trevize won the JägerMusicLab 2024 and was selected among the six best emerging world music acts at the Ethnos Festival in Naples.

Stream and listen to “No Me Nganne” HERE.