The Italian trio of guembri (the West African three-stringed bass plucked luta) and bolon (Malian harp) player, cellist, and percussionist, Antonio Bertoni, flutist Massimo De Mattia (on the right channel), and second flutist Stefano Leonardi, a close associate of Bertoni, who also plays the bass xun (Chinese flute), Turkish Dilli Kaval, Sardinian sulittu, Moldavian seven-holes kaval, and alabaster flute (on the left channel), recorded its debut album live, in a single take in Mori in May 2025.
The album title refers to an imaginary, mythic creature, depicted on the cover. In the folklore of the Alpine region of south-central Europe, the Tatzelwurm is a lizard-like creature, often described as a sort of dragon, with a cat-like face and a serpent-like body. This creature is
