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Nine albums dealing exclusively with the early recordings of Osvaldo Fresedo are currently being released. For the first time in more than 100 years, some of his music is been made available for dancing again. In addition, the careful sound processing and adaptation to the speed at which this music was recorded in the 1920s has created a sublime listening and dancing experience.

It all began with the Orquesta Tipica Vicente Loduca in 1917, when a dance orchestra with Fresedo and his bandoneon and Francisco Canaro on violin set the trend for everything that happened later in tango. The Loduca album (see below) contains all the recordings currently known of Fresedo with this orchestra.

After a trip to the New York music scene, Fresedo received a contract with the Victor label in 1922 and began performing with his own orchestra and recording in the studio. There was no electric microphone at the time. Its predecessor was a funnel, which is why it is also referred to as an acoustic recording.

Finally, “Danza y Movimiento” has published sheet music for tango, jazz, bolero, bossa and modern classical music. Some of the works have been arranged for solo instruments (piano, violin, cello, bass), smaller ensembles, small orchestras or even guitar and vocals. They are available worldwide as downloads on various platforms.

Click here for the current overview of sheet music editions.

Making music yourself is an emotional experience. This experience requires sheet music. The music publisher of “Danza y Movimiento” is called Ediciones La Palmera and has built up a catalog of more than 800 original works over 25 years. Sheet music has not yet been published. Especially in the world of tango, there is a lack of good sheet music editions for small ensembles or individual instruments.

I have now decided to arrange 24 different works for different instruments and/or instrumentations in a pilot project with the support of a whole series of authors. This is a time-consuming and cost-intensive activity and I am grateful to those who have supported me. The current 30 arrangements are offered on these platforms:

Notendownload (prelistening, audio included with purchase)
Stretta (prelistening, audio included with purchase)
Apple Books (prelistening, audio included with purchase)
Score Exchange (Prelistening)
SheetMusicPlus (Prelistening)
Musicnotes

All platforms are linked on our overview page of sheet music editions. Purchasing from Apple Books is only possible when using an iPhone or iPad.

This article provides information about the current options for buying music in high audio quality, i.e. uncompressed in file formats such as FLAC or WAV (download) or listening to it online (streaming).

MP3 is certainly familiar to everyone. It is the most widely used format for audio files. The recording of a music track consists of a lot of data. With MP3, this is compressed into a manageable package so that as many files as possible can fit on your device. During this compression process, certain frequency ranges are cut off, among other things. If you listen to music with a small speaker, you will not notice this. However, if you want to listen to your music on a high-quality system, you will need music files of a suitable quality.

In the days of vinyl, that was no problem. And even today, vinyl as an analog form of music reproduction is an unbeatable musical pleasure. When converted to digital format, a recording loses its value. Anyone who switched from vinyl to CD a few decades ago could see that. Nowadays, however, the CD is already out of fashion and the quality of the music has become worse and worse. As in many other areas, mass has taken the place of quality.

The recordings on a CD correspond to a format called WAV. WAV files are uncompressed audio in CD quality. The alternative to WAV is called FLAC. FLAC files are much smaller than WAV without losing any of the quality of the recording,

Tango is usually danced to recordings that are sometimes more than 100 years old. It crackles and rustles and some people experience a journey back in time to another world while dancing. But did people at that time really hear the music the way we hear it today?

Dedicated sound engineers often went to great lengths to reduce crackling and hissing to a minimum. In doing so, they usually overlooked the fact that many recordings were played at a different speed in the original than the original they had edited. DJ Mark John has dedicated himself to this extremely interesting topic. Based on his research, Danza y Movimiento is publishing a new series in which tangos can be heard as they were heard 100 years ago. And this leads to a new dance experience in which it is possible to immerse yourself even more deeply in the tango.

Why is the speed of many recordings wrong?