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Los Manseros Santiagueños - Las chacareras vol.2

GS 12015-2

Vamos la primera!

I've been looking for a really good chacarera cd that I can offer on this site for several years now. Finally I've found one.

Los Manseros Santiagueños are synonymous with the folk music of the province of Santiago in general, and with the chacarera in particular. This magnificent cd is a reprint of one of their very first albums. The sound fidelity may not be quite up to modern standards, but this is still the best chacarera album you can find because of the music.

Among the wonderful chaacareras it contains, my favourite is Que más se puede pedir (What more can you ask for), which conveys not just the joy of this dance, but the vastness of the pampa. No chacarera-lite here, this is the real thing.

Track list

1. Adiós hermano Cachilo
2. A la sombra de mi mama
3. Del tiempo' i ñaupa
4. Que más se puede pedir
5. Fiesta linda
6. La parecida
7. La vieja
8. De mi pago
9. Del guitarrero pobre
10. De nuevo canto el coyuyo
11. Chacay manta
12. Chacarera del atardecer
13. La de setiembre

Tanturi/Campos - Una emoción

BMG 41296

Whilst Alberto Castillo was Ricardo Tanturi's most famous singer, milongueros have always said that his successor Enrique Campos was Tanturi's best. Enjoyable as Castillo's flambouyant style was, it eventually burst beyond the confines of the orchestra and for once his decision to go solo was not mainly a financial one.

Campos was different. In the auditions for Castillo's replacement, he was the only one that did not attempt to copy Castillo's inimitable delivery. His phrasing, passion and intelligently chosen reportoire (tango buffs will spot similarites with Chanel's repetoire with Pugliese) mark him out as one of the best singers of the 40s.

When the credits roll on Robert Duvall's Tango, the tango to which Pablo Verón and Geraldine Rojas dance is the title track of this cd, Una emoción. It's a tango which always makes my hairs stand on end.

Its accent is the song of a sentimental voice
Its rhythm is the beat which lives in my city
It's not pretentious
It doesn't want to be precocious
Its name is tango, and nothing else

Oigo tu voz and Recién are also classics, whilst the rest of the cd is merely outstanding.

Track list

1. Que nunca me falta
2. Recién
3. Una emoción
4. Palomita mía
5. Y siempre igual
6. La abandoné y no sabía
7. Así se canta
8. Muchachos comienza la ronda
9. Que bien te queda (cómo has cambiado)
10. Que sera de ti
11. Prisionero
12. Sombrerito
13. Oigo tu voz
14. Malvón
15. Domingo a la noche
16. Igual que un bandoneón
17. La uruguayita Lucia
18. Igual que una sombra
19. Si se salva el pibe
20. El sueño del pibe

Milongueando con Canaro

Canaro's milongas are some of the most fun! This album surveys his milongas from the 1940s, when his style was a bit lighter, so we don't got his most charming numbers - they are to be found on Bailando tangos, valses y milongas. The flavour of these milongas is more upbeat fun, and it's an enduringly popular cd. Do note that we have offered this before in the club, way back in our very first month.

Track list

Tango Crash

Something of a departure for us - an album of electronic, tango influenced deconstrutive jazz that I don't much like. But we do get asked for this from time to time.

There's only one track on this cd - Remis - that you could use at a milonga, and then only at certain kinds of milongas. If you like the wierd stuff - this could be for you! Previews of all the tracks are available on the band's flashy website.

Track list

1. La yumba
2. Milonga para Alberto
3. Red loue
4. El choclo
5. Desde lejos
6. Pararrango
7. Remis
8. DJ Perón
9. La yumba (remix)