La Musica Della Mafia

La Musica Della Mafia is the name given to a collective of Calabrian Mafia musicians that wrote and recorded Il Canto Di Malavita. The group started as vigilantes that viewed themselves protectors of their fellow Italian natives. Fighting against the corrupt, monarchic rule that overcame them at the time, the music is an angry and vivid document of a lifestyle that thrived on unspoken rules and values about the treatment of Calabria's people. Never played outside the circle of criminals and family members that lived this lifestyle for years, this folk music was eventually r...