Tanda of the week: Canaro, Maida, 1935
An easy walk through a park to the beats of Francisco Canaro.
An easy walk through a park to the beats of Francisco Canaro.
This week's tanda is progressive. Enter four bands with four contemporary-sounding expressions of tango.
What I want from a milonga are razor-sharp edges and a relentless drive forward. D'Arienzo delivers just that. A tanda from 1961-62.
Do not listen to this tanda when quarantined at home and having nobody to embrace. It will crush your heart.
Tango Bardo is cocaine for the dance floor. Given in the right amount it releases a magnificent outburst of energy to behold. Take too much and you are in trouble.
These Pugliese valses start on a positive note then dive deep into more lyrical waters.
We almost made it through another Friday the 13th, and so to calm our nerves, here is a soothing, warm tanda for our empty embraces.
Tango! It would be hard to find a hobby less practical in an event of a global pandemic.
This week's tanda delivers a powerful lyrical narrative for the mature audience.
I review a CD with very unconventional tango covers made by a duo of harps, Das Harfenduo.