just waiting for my turn to tango.....
today's clip is courtesly of gotan project- i have found their music both inspiring and mesmerizing.and tango intrinsically reflects the twists and turns that our relationships in life take. of course, gotan is tango jumbled up. here is an excerpt from their website:
Five years on from breaking new ground in tango and electronica with their debut, 'La Revancha Del Tango' - now having sold in excess of a million copies worldwide, and shows anywhere from Tel Aviv to Tokyo in between, the band now had the small matter of developing the longstanding love affair that the public had now embarked upon with tango to concentrate on.
"We really wanted to explore both tango and folkloric music from Argentina a lot further than we had before," says Philippe. "That's why many of the tracks are really classically tango-orientated, very traditional patterns that people like (Anibal) Troilo would use."
The resulting material from those sessions was and is quite possibly their most accomplished work yet. Not wanting to replicate any of what 'La Revancha...' had originally achieved musically, Philippe, Christoph and Eduardo subsequently flew back to Paris two weeks later to begin the second leg of work on 'Lunatico' – named, quite appropriately, after tango hero Carlos Gardel's champion racehorse of the 1930's.
so the question is(as always) would you like to dance?
and on a side note: who says tango takes only two? i found this post on gay tel aviv to be honestly compelling somehow. it's a fairly practical look at something that's so a rebours. what do you think?
2 comments:
au reboir? Do you mean au revoir? (goodbye, but really until we meet again). Or hier? (meaning yesterday) Or did you mean a rebours? (meaning ose or dark) That would make sense, but au reboir sort of means "until we drink again" and something tells me that's not what you meant...
I love these guys, and I love the music they make.
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