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Narcotango – audio Carlos Libedinski released his ground-breaking tango electronica album Narcotango in 2002.  But it was not a simple project because the DJs in Buenos Aires milongas would not play his music. Libedinski used his fine musical instincts (he is both – a musician and a dancer) and a good pre-release strategy to make  Read more...
Old Tango – La Paloma Old Tango – El Choclo Old Tango – Caminito 1 Old Tango – Caminito 2 Do you know what jazz, European classical opera and Argentine tango has in common? Habanera! Listen to the story of the most famous habanera – La Paloma. It is also a brief overview how the  Read more...
Rob – audio 1. Rob – audio 2. Rob – audio 3. Rob – audio 4.   Rob Connaire: tango rants. Personal journey into tango – dance, song and poetry. Rob Connaire is a dancer and a musician from Philly. I met him at the milonga in Boston. He is the person with much, much  Read more...
Borges – Blindness Borges – Tango Poetry Two segments about one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The narration is accompanied by the tangos with Borges’s lyrics and the tangos written by his favorite composers. Track 1: Blindness. Borges wrote a lot about his life-long struggle with the inherited blindness and how I  Read more...
Buenos Aires – audio 1 Buenos Aires – audio 2 Buenos Aires – audio 3 I read Tango Singer (the 3rd novel by Martinez) in (almost) one sitting. Read this book if you plan to visit BsAs! It is an erudite guide to the city – tango, literary, historical. In this program I will read  Read more...
Cello – audio 1. Cello – audio 2. There is not much cello in Argentine tango (except for Le Grand Tango). Regardless of that, I decided to make a short sentimental detour into the past centuries and to talk about my childhood memories of a cello, the prolific genius of violin- and cello-making Antoni Stradivari  Read more...
Maizani – audio. Maizani’s life was pure tango – poverty, glamour, love, heartbreak, infamy, deaths, oblivion… The small biography page on www.todotango.com says that she was temperamental and romantic, and that her life was marred by the lack of stable relationships and intelligent, dispassionate guidance. Her official stage debut took place in 1923, when she  Read more...
Tango Nuevo – track 1. Tango Nuevo – track 2. Tango Nuevo – track 3. Piazzolla is considered to be THE tango nuevo, however, there were predecessors, contemporaries and followers who were the great artists in their own right. Bernardo Monk, an Argentine tango/jazz musician based in Boston, MA talks about some of those musicians  Read more...
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