The sound track from the homonymous film by Edoardo Winspeare seems oozed out, returned by the wall of the large Salento farm where it was recorded. It is composed of love songs and pizziche tarantate, traditional tracks extracted from the silence of these fields and new compositions swallowed up by the vortex, introduced to the circular breathing (or in blood circulation) of folk culture of the Grecia Salentina. Lamberto Probo and Pino Zimba's vital "beat", Cinzia Marzo and Raffaella Aprile's penetrating vocal lines, barrel organs, castanets, violins, flutes and guitars that wind up and explode in a magical music, that eliminates toxins through exhaustion.

Alias ( Manifesto) 29th of July 2000 Marco Boccitto

Archaic atmospheres and folk songs melt in an excellent artistic contamination, proposing its own ancient rhythms as a musical reflection of our modernity, transforming a film inspired to today's reality on the border of Puglia into a sort of Pulp Fiction of the South.

Time Out 14-20/09

What immediately strikes one in this album are the fast tracks where the pizzica explodes in its absorbing hypnotic expression, mostly due to the rhythmic crescendo dictated by the frenetic percussion of the tambourines. A frenzy that induces dance and obsessive movement, so much so that it was used in the past as a trance vehicle or even as a therapeutical source.

Jam - sept. 2000 Roberto Caselli

Folk matrix, basically, but energy and a very "rock" based instinct, as used to happend - in respect to music from Naples - with some brilliant works in the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in the '70. It's an unusual record but stimulating, that deserves the attention of a wider public than the usual followers of the Pizzica tradition

Il Mucchio Selvaggio - n. 408 Federico Guglielmi

Since 1993 Officina Zoe' has one of the groups to propose with most strength the musical traditions of the Salento area, especially the pizzica, that is the ancestral rhythm of Salento soul: exciting and touching, therapeutic and hilarious, one of the stronger elements in the musical rebirth of the whole of Southern Italy.

Musica (Repubblica) 06-07- 2000 Felice Liperi

A movie not to miss for its intensity and genuineness. (.) 'Live Blood' stands out for the power of its cinematographic language, the authenticity of the actors, the beautiful, vigorous photography, the feeling of reality that it emanates - eloquent as a journalistic report, precise as an ethnographic study on the new South

Irene Bignardi, LA REPUBBLICA, June 4, 2000

Winspeare succeeds in mixing, with an eloquent, never trivial, fullness, the clash between two men, two civilizations of Good and Bad, and, naturally, two ethics and two Italys. Through the obsessive rhythm of this music, the director finds not only a rare, dramatic narrative (which becomes rarefied and powerful at the end), but also the truth of a strange report inspired by daily life.

Maurizio Porro, IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA, June 17, 2000

Winspeare succeeds in mixing, with an eloquent, never trivial, fullness, the clash between "Live Blood" is one of those rare movies in which folk culture hits its highest level of universality, in which tradition and innovation close a magic circle.

Roberta Ronconi, LIBERAZIONE, June 16, 2000

The singing, dancing and playing of tambourines of the 'Pizzica' sets the audience ablaze and becomes the breath of the action.

Gian Luigi Rondi, IL TEMPO, June 8, 2000

"Live Blood", a rough and despairing movie, reveals the beautiful face of Pino Zimba, creating a kind of cinema-verité.

Michele Anselmi, L'UNITË, June 3, 2000

Winspeare has controlled this powerful material, brimming with pathos, and has directed it all toward the audience.

Silvana Silvestri, IL MANIFESTO, May 31, 2000

The story moves forward relentlessly, enlivened and supported by the electrifying music of Salento, evoking heart-rending emotions.

Marco Lodoli, DIARIO, June 30, 2000

The new, beautiful movie by Winspeare deserves to become the event of the summer. (.) Winspeare filters high tradition and anthropological reflection. (.) Two characters and two actors who invade and fill the eyes, the fears and the suffering of the audience with emotion.

Aldo Fittante, FILM TV, June 18, 2000

Masterpieces of the South: "Live Blood" is an interesting, clever, new movie, but most of all the result of a mixture between the great past of Italian cinema and a possible future. (.) "Pizzica" is a traditional music which is the crossing point of Saracen rhythms and melodies with an ancestral taste. It is not only the soundtrack of the movie, but its intimate backbone.

Marco Spagnoli, TIME OUT ROMA, June 15, 2000

Winspeare offers dense images of an invasive nature, saturated with colors, in which only the music seems to compensate for pain, repugnance and indolence.

Mario Sesti, MUSICA, June 15, 2000

Almost a film-concert, or a folkloric ritual. A movie for those looking for something different.

Gianni Canova, ELLE, July 2000