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Nothing improves your dancing so much as a good feeling for the special qualities of tango music. The idea of the club was to help you build a library of good tango music, tailored to your own tastes.
The club ran for 8 years, from December 2008 to December 2015, but was forced to close because of the reducing supply of tango CDs, itself a consequence of on-line listening (youtube and spotify) and of course copying.
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This month's cds (October 2013):
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The Masters of Tango - Ángel D'Agostino: Café Domínguez
LCDM 2742313
An excellent D'Agostino/Vargas selection with the iconic, later (from 1955) Café Domínguez thrown in for good measure. Since Euro ceased production this is the only way to get this track. Excellent fidelity throughout - a recommended CD, despite one mistake: Un copetín is not the 1941 recording with Angel Vargas, but the 1952 one with Ruben Cané.
Track list
- Café Domínguez
- Serpentinas de esperanza
- Rondando tu esquina
- A quién le puede importar?
- Caricias
- Menta y cedrón
- Shusheta
- Cuando se ha querido mucho
- Rosiata la Santiageña
- Palais de glace
- La nueva vecina
- Mi viejo barrion
- La última cita
- El poncho de olvido
- Mano blanca
- Cantando olvidaré
- La carreta
- Me llaman tango
- Madre hay una sola
- Transnochando
- Gorriones
- Traiga otra caña
- Adiós arrabal
- Tres esquinas
- Un copetín
The Masters of Tango - Astor Piazzolla: Bandó
LCDM 2742330
le chant du monde focus on the years when Piazzolla was closest to Paris, opening this CD with the recordings he made in Paris with his string orchestra (1955) (Tracks 1-13). Next come a couple of recordings made with his octet (1957) (Tracks 14-15). This was Piazzolla's most experimental period and the sound is surprisingly fully formed.
The remainder of the disc is more what you'd expect, quintet recordings from 1959-1961.
Track list
- Preprense
- Marrón y azul
- Imperial
- S.V.P.
- Sentido unico
- Estamos listos
- Chau París
- Bandó
- Luz y simbra
- Noniño
- Guardia nueva
- Contrastes
- Río Sena
- Neotango
- Taconeando
- Lo que vendrá
- Tango del ángel
- Tres minutos con realidad
- Triunfal
- Quinto año nacional
- Adiós Noniño
- Tanguísimo
- La calle 92
- Chiqué
- Redención
The Masters of Tango: Julio De Caro - Tierra Querida
LCDM 2742310
A real surprise, le chant du monde have chosen to publish De Caro's final recordings from 1950-1952. The disc includes Mi dolor, Aníbal Troilo and the 1952 Flores negras.
The last four tracks are sextet recordings from 1927-1928. This is an outstanding CD, and narrowly displaces the Reliquias CD "Tangos de Rompe y Raja" for European listeners as the preferred CD for De Caro's 50s tracks.
Track list
- Derecho viejo
- Moulin rouge
- Maipo
- Tierra querida
- Ojos negros
- Flores negras
- Recuerdo
- Mala pinta
- El arranque
- Loca bohemia
- Todo corazón
- Buen amigo
- Mi dolor
- Chiclana
- Boedo
- Guardia vieja
- De rompe y raja
- Mala junta
- Aníbal Troilo
- El monito
- Copacabana
- Adiós pubelo
- Aromas
- Gallo ciego
- Quejas de bandoneón
Canta:
- Orlando Verri (12,13)
Juan D'Arienzo canta Alberto Echagüe - La Morocha
Magenta 9101
This is the only CD in-print of D'Arienzo's 1938-39 sides with singer Alberto Echagüe. Juan D'Arienzo's muscular style usually left little space for the singer, who had to fit in as best he could! Whilst Héctor Mauré was the greatest singer to grace the orchestra, the one who most fitted the D'Arienzo style was Alberto Echagüe. The words you might use to describe his style: rough and ready, and canyengue (street-wise) can all be applied to the D'Arienzo orchestra itself, making him the perfect match.
Echagüe had three stints with D'Arienzo, of which the best was undoubtedly the first (1938-1939). Amazingly, and perhaps betraying a certain prejudice, this period is not represented on the Reliquias catalogue or any of the main Argentine labels. So it's left to the small Argentine label Magenta to bring us a cd. It's stuffed to the gunnels with great hits, including the iconic Pénsalo bien and some fantastic milongas.
Track list
- La morocha
- Cabeza de novia vals
- Ansiedad
- No mientas
- Que Dios te ayude
- Retintín
- Don Esteban
- El baqueano
- Pénsalo bien
- El irresistible
- El vino triste
- Melodía porteña
- Unión Cívica
- Estampa de varon milonga
- Milonga querida milonga
- De antaño milonga
Canta:
- Alberto Echagüe (2,3,4,5,9,11,14,15,16)
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