Tag: Albums Tango

“Tango Sonorte and Harri Kaitila: “Un finlandés en Buenos Aires”
For some time now, the experienced opera singer Harri Kaitila and the band Tango Sonorte both have promoted Finnish Tango separately and contributed to its fame far beyond the Scandinavian peninsula. But now they’ve topped it all off by joining forces to create this superb album!

The musical references of the members of Tango Sonorte testify unbelievable creativity, expressivity and imrpovisation skills! The guitarist Antero Jakoila is one of the most prestigious artists in his field and his talent can be appreciated in various movies of the great Finnish film maker Kaurismäki. And this is just to name the probably best known musician of this ensemble!

Oh, I still remember how much I enjoyed “Tango 3.0”.
Especially awesome was “La gloria”! Somewhere between electro, breaks and tango… and I have hardly ever heard such a fat bass in e-tango. And if you’ve ever been to Argentina and listened to a football game on the radio you’ll have to smile big time about the wonderful idea of integrating this experience into a song!
“La panamericana” fascinated me, too. It’s got something very hypnotic and you instantly feel beamed into a truck which rushes in a split second through villages like mancora, on his endlessly long way down south…

Just a few days ago I’ve written about an exciting cooperation of Leopoldo Federico with Roberto Grela in this place…
and I already got my hands on the next one, this time with Susana Rinaldi, one of THE Grandes Dames of tango.

A bandoneón and a voice, both matured through experience, who meet and have a lot to tell each other. And who are incredibly good in listening to each other, as it is the case between good friends.

Finally in our store!

The new CD from Sexteto Milonguero: “7”
And: “Dios mio!” what a staggering album – no: artwork!
More than one hour of vitality, “joie de vivre”, goosebumps, (sounds somehow as if I’d write about salsa ) and danceable melancholy!

Not all news is new. Although I wrote about this fantastic group about a month ago in the German blog and then wrote a few lines in the newsletter after that, I haven’t really got around to writing a few words in English until now.
The group, Jasstango, brought out the same-named album back in 2008. We just brought in on board at the beginning of this year. I listened to the album intensively for a good couple of weeks back then and was extremely enthusiastic. Then I took a break. I’m listening to the CD again as I write now and I can say that my ‘love at first hearing’ from more than a month ago was no superficial flirt: the music remains good.