Artist.......: VA
Album........: The Rough Guide to Tango Revival
Label........: World Music Network
Genre........: Tango
Catnr........: RGNET1224CD
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Feb-20-2010
str.date.....: Oct-13-2009
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: worldmusiccentral.or
track title time
cd1
01. Seleccion Nacional De Tango - La Cumparsita 05:21
02. Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro - La 02:35
Madrugada
03. Orquesta Color Tango De Roberto Alvarez - 03:37
Quejumbroso
04. Quartett Escualo - Fuga Y Misterio 04:16
05. Oana Catalina Chitu - Zaraza 02:23
06. Orquesta Color Tango De Roberto Alvarez - 04:46
Piqueteros
07. Carel Kraayenhof - Libertango 03:46
08. 6 Australes - La Lujanera 03:35
09. Tango Siempre - Triphop & Fugue 07:33
10. Tango Crash - La Yumba 07:13
11. La Camorra - La Maroma 04:37
12. Melingo - Pequeno Paria (Roy Dubb Reradiomix) 03:52
13. Seleccion Nacional De Tango - Adios Nonino 06:44
cd2-Carlos Gardel-King Of Tango
01. Carlos Gardel - Mi Noche Triste 03:23
02. Carlos Gardel - Sonrisas 02:10
03. Carlos Gardel - Gloria 02:33
04. Carlos Gardel - Caminito 02:39
05. Carlos Gardel - Arrabalero 02:16
06. Carlos Gardel - Vida Amarga 02:30
07. Carlos Gardel - Leguisamo Solo 02:30
08. Carlos Gardel - Siga El Corso 02:42
09. Carlos Gardel - Todavia Hay Otarios 01:59
10. Carlos Gardel - Muneca Brava 02:23
11. Carlos Gardel - La Cumparsita 02:18
12. Carlos Gardel - Volve, Mi Negra 02:35
13. Carlos Gardel - Knock-Out De Amor 02:28
14. Carlos Gardel - La Violeta 02:25
15. Carlos Gardel - Yira! Yira! 02:45
Runtime 97:54 min
Size 115,9 MB
Release Notes:
Written in 1917, the opening track La Cumparsita,
signified the birth of tango. Here Seleccion
Nacional De Tango, who, along with the Orquesta
Tipica Fernandez Fierro, can be seen as the sound
of the new, gutsy, quasi-nationalist Argentina,
give it a thorough reworking. Their second live
track, Adios Nonino, closes this selection and,
sentimental, impetuous, self-obsessed and
passionate, the song like its author, Astor
Piazzolla is an emanation of the soul of porteno (a
Buenos Aires resident). Known for their streetwise,
gutsy and unpolished sound, Orquesta Tipica
Fernandez Fierro who you can explore further on the
bonus CD communicate the conflicting optimism,
languor, romance and rancour of Buenos Aires
streets on La Madrugada.
Orquesta Color Tango De Roberto Alvarez, a stylish
and vastly experienced orchestra, pay homage to
tango legend Osvaldo Pugliese on Quejumbroso, which
veers between a wonderful hop-and-skip milonga beat
and moments of melancholy solo strolling. They
return on Piqueteros with an ultra-contemporary
theme: Argentina's notorious picketers who block
roads and motorways.
One of Buenos Aires' most consistently thrilling
ensembles, La Camorra are one of the best
contemporary orchestras. Their virtuosity, vim and
sheer class are all on display in the slow-paced,
darkly magical track La Maroma.
Punk-poet-tanguero-classicist Daniel Melingo
creates formative new twenty-first-century tango
and Pequeno Paria is a spooky dub song about
outcasts and gutter-crawlers, remixed by Gotan
Project's Christoph H. Muller.
Tango has grown from being a purely Buenos Aires
affair into a worldwide phenomenon and this album
features bands based all over Europe, whose wide
range of approaches is proof of tango's enduring
magic and popularity. From the UK, Tango Siempre's
rich sound is inflected with jazz-groove and
electronica, and Triphop & Fugue is a slow study of
melancholy, mania and urban disaffection.
For Romanians tango is a reminder of precommunist
days and Oana Catalina Chitu, in her gorgeous song
æZarazaÆ, takes us back there without any of the
fug of whingeing nostalgia.
Berlin-based 6 Australes sing of a demonic
man-eater who seduces naive young hombres in her
barrio on La Lujanera, a song whose vivacious,
foot-tapping beat dispel the myth that tango is a
gloomy, monochrome affair.
This album also features clean, virtuoso
strings-led tango from Hungary's Quartett Escualo,
edgy, electronic tango from German-based
Argentinean experimentalists Tango Crash and Dutch
bandoneon-it's bandleader Carel Kraayenhof's
version of Astor Piazzolla's famous composition
Libertango. Taken together, these bands are
reviving Argentina's one indigenous cultural
expression: el tango.
Carlos Gardel is perhaps the most prominent figure
in the history of tango.The unerring musicality of
GardelÆs baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing
of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his
hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together
with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le
Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos, most
notably: Mi Buenos Aires querido, Cuesta abajo,
Amores de estudiante, Soledad, Volver, Por una
cabeza and El dia que me quieras.