The “heel” of southern Italy is the point of origin for Taranta Project (Ponderosa Music, 2015), a work overseen by composer/conductor/pianist Ludovico Einaudi on which spinning-top rhythms of the type long associated with traditional Italian music are intensified with sounds out of West Africa, Turkey and the Balkans. Guests like U.K. guitarist Justin Adams, Gambian ritti player Juldeh Camara and Turkish electronica trailblazer Mercan Dede bring gobs of greatness to the table, making this disc throb with danceable pulsations one moment and bask in orchestral moodiness the next. A few meandering moments here and there, but on the whole a real dazzler