Comments on: Strawberry Hotel / Tango

By: squashed

squashed — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:50:26 +0000

Hi elmira,

thanks for the links. I’ll use them for my next list with tango tracks.

(sorry for late rescuing your post from the spam filter. The spam has been brutal so can’t turn off the filter.)

By: Elmira

Elmira — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:10:21 +0000

Dear Squashed,
I came across your blog by digging the statistics of my site dedicated to Argentine tango (Tango Tales, http://www.tangotales.com). Thanx for your kind words about my radio pieces about Borges. They were one of my favorites to script and to record.
I came up with other decent (from my point of view) shows:
Literary tour to Borges’s Buenos Aires (based on book Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez)-
http://www.tangotales.com/archive/LitTourWithMartinez.htm

Understanding Tango genius of Astor Piazzolla (with Yo-yo Ma, Carlos Prieto, Osvaldo Golijov speaking about Piazzolla) -
http://www.tangotales.com/archive/Piazzolla.htm

Also, check out the section Voices and Places in Archive section of my site: http://www.tangotales.com/archive_voices_and_places.htm

One show, 10 years old production This is The Tango by Guadalupe Jolicour I salvaged from one of the websites. It is the beautiful series about Argentine tango.
On the same page you can listen to the interview with Astor Piazzolla (in English – he spoke English very well)

By: Pietro Navarra

Pietro Navarra — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:31:38 +0000

Ellegant post…

By: Fango

Fango — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:11:17 +0000

If you can get your hands on it, I highly recommend “Tango: Un giro extrano,” a great documentary on the contemporary tango scene in Buenos Aires.

By: moka

moka — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:02:44 +0000

I was meaning to do a tango post some months ago for a colombian friend who dances tango (and she’s quite good at it I must admit) but my collection of this type of music is nothing if not amateurish (pretty much consisting of Carlos Gardel and Anibal Troilo). She then promised me to send me a tango mixtape with her favorite songs but she keeps forgetting to do so.

Milonga del angel is a magnific song, I find it so strange that you mention it because it was one of the songs I was considering for the playlist originally.

ps: venetian snares track seems to be mislabelled.

By: squashed

squashed — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:52:43 +0000

Translation: ” and I hear the echo of those tangos of Arolas and Greco
that I have seen danced in the streets ”

also listen to this radio show:
highly recommended.

http://www.tangotales.com/archive/Borges.htm

Segment 2: Tango Poetry. In the 1960s Piazzolla and Borges cooperated on the musical project. It produced a number of memorable milongas, such as Jancinto Chiclana. Also, Borges created many other poems dedicated to tango and wrote about the connection of early milonga poetry to the Argentine national character.
Bernardo Monk of MassTango makes a guest appearance on segment 2.

http://www.tangotales.com/audio/Borges_2.mp3