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Equinox Tango nr III
See webpage
with slide show.
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Equinox Tango
At an open air train station museum in Goes the
southwest of the Netherlands, there's tango
organised in an formar storage building called 'De
Goederenloods'. Equinox Tango offers milongas and
workshops, but, so far, just 2 times per year, when
the sun crosses the equator. A rare occasion to
dance in yet another special place in the
Netherlands. Next time: Sept 21.
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Dancing with Rabbi Jacob
The maestros having fun, dancing along with a
clip of the movie Rabbi
Jacob (Louis
de Funes) at the opening weekend of Victoria
Tango Club in Brussels.
See
photos of workshops with Pablo Veron, made
by Frederik Taen.
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Tango and Cash
Drawn by its cheap prices and Paris-like
elegance, foreign artists are colonising Buenos
Aires, transforming this sprawling metropolis into
a hothouse of cool, writes Denny Lee.
The tango dancers took their places inside a
cramped apartment in downtown Buenos Aires, as
David Lampson, a 29-year-old television writer from
Boston, wiped his brow. Even though it was 38
degrees outside, the fans were shut off, spotlights
switched on and windows blacked out with trash
bags. The cameraman waited until the smoke machine
blurred the parquet floor before yelling:
"Action."
A story in the Sidney Morning Herald about the
present life and opportunities in Buenos Aires.
Read all, click
here
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Rubèn &
Sabrina (BsAs)
dance performances in Salon De Plantage in
Amsterdam, March 28, as filmed by Wouter van der
Hoeven.
Opening with a Tango
waltz
Tango 1, Nochero
soy
Tango 2, Bordoneo
y 900
and an 'otra', a
Chacarera
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Biezenmortel Tango
weekend
March 14, 15, performances
Mariano
& Cosima
Ruben
& Sabrina and other teachers
(videos hindered by messages about non registered
software)
Classes
Ruben & Sabrina
All Biezenmortel 2008 videos made by
'Rugov' from Belgium, at his personal profile
page
Videos
by Rugov
NB The publisher of the pages in the domain
Torito.nl is not responsable for the content of
pages linked from it.
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Tango
schilderijen
De in Amsterdam geboren kunstenares
Inez Köhler woont en werkt in
Voorhout, maakt grafiek, aquarellen, maar
ook schilderijen met onderwerpen uit Zuid
Amrikaanse culturen, waaronder de Tango.
Tango
schilderijen
Inez
Köhler, home
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Melingo in concert
great photographs of Melingo made during his
concert in Ancienne Belgique, in Brussels, March
27, made by Frederik Taen.
Melingo (vocals, Argentina) presented his new CD
'Maldito Tango' of the Manaña label.
Concerting with bandoneon, guitaar, double base, a
'singing saw', a violin and more.
See
all photos
Op donderdagavond 27 maart 2008 presenteerde
Daniel Melingo in het Ancienne Belgique te Brussel
zijn nieuwe album Maldito Tango. Met zijn theatrale
expressies wist hij het gehele publiek te vervoeren
en mee te nemen in zijn wereld van de Tango
Cancion. Bevlogen door het woord vertolkte hij
subtielere versies van zijn eerdere oeuvre
aangevuld met nieuw en verrassend materiaal.
Begeleid door excellente musici dirigeerde hij het
publiek moeiteloos. Tijdens 'Muleta De Borracho'
draafde Melingo blootvoets door met het opzwepen
van de zaal. Niet eerder hoorden zij een
instrumentale vertolking van 'Volver' op een
zingende zaag. Na een staande ovatie kwam daar
eindelijk de 'Narigon' die het concert weergaloos
afsloot.
Frederik Taen, Tangobenelux, Brussel.
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Neo tango is here to stay
Lately, there has been a lot of movement in
the world of tango music. The best example is
probably the recent rise of neo tango. But also
more and more tango orchestras are formed and
appear on stage.
It seems obvious that there is a need for new
tango music and new tango compositions. The music
competition Concurso del Ocho, an initiative of the
Doble Ocho tango festival, aims at stimulating new
music, independent whether it is orientated towards
traditional tango or neo tango.
Written by Arnoud de Graaff
Read all, Click
here
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Souvenirs of Doble Ocho
festival
Click
here to see the photos of the recent festival
in Nijmegen.
Festival
page
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Margreet Markerink won The
Choclo contest
the contest for tango music composers, organised
by the dutch Tangomagazine La Cadena in cooperation
with Tangoo dance school Tango La Zapada, was won
by pianist Margreet Markerink. The jury formed by
Alfredo Marcucci (president of the jury), Birkit
Wildenburg (dancer, Tango La Zapada), Hugo Buiten
(dancer, Cuartito Azul), Willem Lammerink (editor
La Cadena) found her music very danceable,
original, surprising, but never too far from the
traditional tango.
Part from the trophee, the winner recieves a full
day in a professional sound studio to record the
composition Saturday June 14, the winner, Margeet
Markerink, will play at the Gran salon de Tango in
Utrecht, organised by Tango La Zapada.
Read all at the website of The
Choclo
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still from video archive
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Gonzalo Robinson & Alejandra
Soto
It was quite a treat to see this dance couple in
action. First in Tango Centro (The Hague, March 1),
later in salon Don Tango (Amsterdam, March 9) the
gathered tangueros will have enjoyed the
exhibitions as well as their 'private' dances on
the crowded floor. The fraseo, the dance between te
counts, the playing with the music, the calmness,
elegance, and then little explosions, never out of
control, but pasionate must have been inspiring for
many. Just looking at them may make one dance
better, because one sees how essential it is, to
play with the music.
Here a video of the couple found on youtube.
See
videos on YoouTube
See
videos on website Gonzalo Robinson
Rob Nuijten, the edtitor
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Song of the week
Another website that's worth a weekly visit is
the blog of Marcos di Paolo, one of the fine
Argentinean musicians living in the Netherlands,
since on the blog you'll find a new interesting and
beautiful song every week, that he found somewhere
and likes to share with the rest of the world. See
top right of he page and click the music bar
http://www.marcosdipaolo.nl/blog_UK.html
Whole songs with music played by himself, solo, or
with Santiago Cimadevilla, Los Taitas and Racing
Club Tango, you'll find at the music page
http://www.marcosdipaolo.nl/music.html
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Accordionist from Roumenia
Constantin, accordionist from Roumenia, often
playing in shopping centre Hoog Catharijne in
Utrecht, played his tangos at a practise night in
November of Tangoschool Carla Somer, in Culemborg
(the Netherlands). It appeared that Constantin was
used to play tango continuously as if it were one
piece, all together. But soon he found out, that
tangodancers prefer sets of 4 tangos that last just
a few minutes per piece. The dancers enjoyed the
encounter so much, that they'll soon invite
Constantin again to come and play.
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Ramiro Gallo
Quintet
Delicate violence and
violent delicacies
Review of the concert in
Amsterdam, February 15, Tropentheater, theatre of
the Tropical institute.
Ramiro Gallo has a rich variety of techniques
that enables him to enjoy playing the violin to the
fullest, and the audience with him. The quinteto,
composed by all very skilled musicians, indeed
lives up to its promise: partly violent modern
tangos, where the instruments like double base and
violin are beaten or scratched, the piano keys
pounded, larded with pieces as delicate as
classical chamber music. Very Piazzolla inspired,
but also very 'Ramiro Gallo'.
Read more, click
here
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Amsterdam music collector and DJ
Remi Kooij died
February 9, the wellknown tango DJ and
tango music collector Remi Kooij, died.
Read
more, click here
Op de ochtend van 9 februari is de
bekendste tango Dj en tangomuziekverzamlaar,
Remi Kooij, op 61 jarige leeftijd, heel
rustigjes overleden, in het woonzorgcentrum De
Buitenhof in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert.
Lees
meer, klik
hier
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Souvenirs
Click at an image to enlarge.
© photos and collage are copyrights
protected.
You can save the photos for your own private use,
but publication of these images or parts of these
images is not allowed without written permission of
the photographer Allard van der Hoek
<allard.Hoek(at)freeler.nl>
and designer / publisher Rob Nuijten, Amsterdam .
Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne.
Movies
of their
performance
at YouTube
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Tangomagia festival X, December
2007, Amsterdam.
Photos © Allard van der Hoek
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The band 'Tanghetto' first appearances in the
Netherlands.
December 19, 2007, in Groningen,
December 20, 2007, in The Hangue.
December 26, 2007, in Amsterdam (Tangomagia
festival, opening night, in De Melkweg.
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Tanghetto (BsAs) in the
Netherlands
Seen and heard December 20, thursday, in
The Hague,
Korzo theater, Concert + salon de Tango.
Tanghetto was presented as the host of a Tango
salon in the Korzo theatre in The Hague. I indeed
entered a kind of salon setting, with high tables
wrapped into large white table cloths around a
large wooden dance floor. DJ Rein filled the hour
before the concert. Tanghetto started a half hour
later, what may have been caused by the room not
filling up much. About 200 people visited the
concert what must have been quite a dissappointment
after all the reduction vouchers being spread by
various influencal media with extensive
mailinglists in the dutch tango world. The group
played various songs from their first CD
'inmigrante' (which refers to the argentinean
leader of the band Max Masri living in Germany
before re-migrating to Argentina) and newer ones.
Their second CD is being produced these days. As
the band claimed 'to host a milonga', a salon de
tango, they explained the gathered tango lovers to
have chosen songs that were most danceable. And
they were. However, I became more and more curious
to know what other tunes they could come up with,
that didn't look so much alike. One time I was
almost sure they played a song that just had been
played; thát similar it was. So, after a
good start, where the wilder tangueros tested the
dance floor for all their tricks and stunts, and
even the local 'old-fashioned' milonguero-style
dancers carefully danced right into the tango heart
of exotic ladies visiting from the far east, there
were moments that one thought: what else can you
play, guys?
In the break DJ Rein did not compete with the newer
style music heard from the stage. He sticked to the
golden oldies. One remark heard from a tanguero who
organises a traditional milonga in Amsterdam, when
a lady invited him for a little chat: "Chat, sure,
but not in the break!" It portrayed an opinion more
often heard that night; the band wasn't keeping the
attention of the visitors with songs that were too
much alike. Once a 'modern' rhythm was discovered,
it seemed there was little else to do than fill it
with a different variation of notes, push the
repeat button of the computer and add some live
variations on the theme. Tanghetto seems to be just
'more of the same'. Well, I hope I'm wrong of
course. When Tanghetto appears in Amsterdam,
December 26th at the Tangomagia festival, they may
come up with a more exiting selection of their
compositions. At the end the band however received
a warming applause and they were asked for otra's.
I applauded as well, for the work the guys had been
doing on stage, and not, as may be clear at the end
of my review, for the compositions.
And then, baff, with their last 'otra' they did
such a good job. It made the people dance wildly,
and me to believe in them again.
In the continuing milonga, local DJ Rein played
wonderfull dance music chosen from a large variety
of orchestra's. It was a lovely night.
Rob Nuijten, the editor
A vast collection of video's of Tanghetto on
YouTube
Click
here
Tanghetto (a contraction of tango and
ghetto) refers to the small communities of
Argentinean exiles on the European side of the
ocean. Tanghetto was established in the year 2001
in Buenos Aires, Argentina; leaders of the group
are Max Masri (electronics) and Diego S.
Velazquez (guitars). Max Masri, in his youth
one of the last students of tango legend Virgilio
Expósito, returned to Buenos Aires from
Germany in the mid-90's. The experiences that he
shared with Argentinean emigrants gave him the idea
to develop a new musical idiom in which tango and
modern sounds could merge.
www.tanghetto.com
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'Ensuciando papeles'
Beyond
magazine viel de afgelopen week in de bus,
met de bijbehorende CD. Op deze CD ditmaal ook een
milonga van Carel Kraayenhof, 'ensuciando papeles'
('papier vuilmakend'), zoals deze ook te horen is
in de show 'Tango Heroes'. Het valt te hopen dat
muziekpapier nog veel vaker op deze manier wordt
vuilgemaakt. Deze milonga dwingt je de dansvloer
op. De sound is onmiskenbaar Carel en zijn Sexteto
Canyengue, maar dit nummer vind ik swingender,
lyrischer dan zijn vorige composities die me wat
'braaf' overkwamen. Een geslaagde keuze op de
verder ook beluisterens- en danswaardige CD vol
hedendaagse wereldmuziek.
Beyond magazine CD 3, Track 13. Carel Kraayenhof
y su Sexteto Canyengue met 'Ensuciando papeles'
Beyondmagazine,
mp3 van de eerste 45 seconden.
Video-collage
over Carel, op YouTube startend met deze
milonga.
Correctief commentaar van de leading dancer in
de show, Arjan Sikking: "het is geen milonga maar
een candombe."
(Redactie: het candombe ritme is de voorloper van
het milonga ritme, en vormt daarmee
één van de roots van de tango).
Bajofondo Mar Dulce
Hetzelfde Beyond magazine bericht over de
nieuwste CD van Bajofondo, genaamd Mar Dulce.
Bajofondo (voorheen 'BajofondoTangoclub') is geen
'Tangoclub' meer, maar wel bevat de CD Argentijnse
straatrap en 'tango hiphop' temidden van
'latinpopsongs', en een ballad met Elvis Costello.
Helaas staan geen van deze nummers op deze derde
Beyond magazine CD.
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Tango, fado en flamenco in
Amsterdam
TangoTalks biedt, in samenwerking met Terromoto
dans- en kijk- en luisteravonden met een mix van
flamenco en tango en zopas zelfs ook fado.
Meesterlijke performances voor de liefhebbers.
Echter, de doorsnee tangodansers zijn geneigd nogal
gauw te klagen wanneer er niet 'gewoon
tangogedanst' kan worden. Bij de mooiste
flamenco-optredens voelen ze zich vaak enkel 'van
de vloer gebonjourd'. Tijdens hun gemopper in de
gang of bij de bar missen ze het spektakel waarvoor
ze nog een paar euro entree betaald hebben. Ook de
tangoartiesten, die zouden moeten weten hoe het
hoort, staan hardop te chatten wanneer een collega
artiest met bloedserieuse flamencozang of een zeer
kundig en temperamentvol uitgevoerde dans de harten
beroert van hen die wel weten waarvoor ze
kwamen.
Niet dat alle optredens zo profi zijn, maar 3/4 is
van echt hoog niveau, en wie begrijpt welk een
feestje hier wordt gemaakt, begrijpt ook de
intentie van dat andere kwart: je maakt het feestje
samen. De flamencomensen begrijpen dat systeem veel
beter dan de tangueros.
Heerlijk gedanst overigens, ook al vond ik de tijd
niet eens, om bij al dat boeiends, nog mijn
dansschoenen aan te trekken!
www.tangotalks.com
www.terremoto.nl
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Video
of a jazzy La Yumba interpretation by Tango
Crash, at the Jazzfestival 2006, Delmenhorst
(Germany)
Video made by Volker Marschhausen.
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Tango is a sad thought that can
be sung
Tango Voices, a new songbook with CD,
came out recently and this may interest most of the
readers of this Tango agenda, since they are the
ones this production is meant for. the tangos they
always listened to.
The writer, Donald Cohen, says: "This book is
about tango, more specifically it is about tango
canción or tango song: that is to say, about
tangos and the people who wrote them, played them
and sang them. It was written primarily for those
who know little about tango, and for those who may
know much about the dance, but little about the
music or songs to which it is performed."
Easy to read, and full of interesting history
around these songs and their singers. There's lot
of things to learn from it, and I think it must
indeed be appealing for the people it's meant for.
Dancers of tango often have no clue what the lyrics
are about, not speaking the language, let alone the
dialect lunfardo. Great is, that all these
tangos on the CD are very danceable. One can play
the CD and sing along with the text in the book,
read its translation (into english, as the book is
in english) and then even dance to it, with a lot
more knowledge about these famous tangos than all
the years before. One could pick up the guitar,
like Carlos Gardel, and look at the drawings of the
chords or follow the notes on the sheet music.
To read
all, click here.
Includes details for order and shipment.
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Jubileum zangeres Mabel
González
De uit Uruguay afkomstige Mabel González
viert dit jaar haar 20-jarige jubileum als
tangozangeres. Als zangeres heeft zij uiteenlopende
muziekstijlen afgetast, alvorens ze definitief voor
de Tango koos. In 1987 wordt zij gevraagd om voor
een tangofestival in Paradiso (Amsterdam) wat
tango's in te studeren en te zingen. De Tango van
de Rio de la Plata, haar eigen geboortestreek, laat
haar sindsdien nooit meer los.
Mabel González vertolkt de tango in de
dubbelrol van zangeres en actrice. Enerzijds
benadert zij hem op bijna minimalistische wijze,
met respect voor de grote tangodichters, maar
tegelijkertijd richt zij zich op de meest
dramatische kant van het genre: haar teksten gaan
vaak over ongelukkige liefdesgeschiedenissen, over
de heimwee van een emigrant wiens ogen aan de
andere kant van de zee achterbleven, en over
verslagen rebellieën. Het is niet voor niets
dat tango symbool staat voor heimwee. Haar zingen
ontlokte Tangodichter Horacio Ferrer de volgende
uitspraak: "Zij zingt als een traan onder de
Hollandse vierkante maan".
Jubileum concert, performances, salon met
live music
30 November 2007, Bibelot (church)
Dordrecht
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New CD 'Tango around the
world'
A new release of the Putumayo label, distributed
in the Netherlands by Pink Records. Lovely cover
art, as always. The CD contains Tango- and 'Tango
influenced music'. My first impression is that it's
a pity that a CD of only 11 songs, called Tango
Around The World, could not stick to just Tango. It
also contains bolero- and other rhythms (Earth
Wheel Sky Band with 'Gipsy Tango', and Federico
Aubele from Argentina (!), with 'Pena') and
sometimes it's just the word 'Tango" in the text,
that seems enough to make it appear on this Tango
CD. The music on itself is quite nice, and there's
also a few songs on it that may be played in the
neotango salons where much need for a Tango rhythm
isn't felt either,
Read
all and listen to samples of all
tracks
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Orquesta Típica Sans Souci founded
in 1999, aims at recreating the musical styles of
the orquestas típicas of Miguel Caló
and Osmar Maderna. With four bandoneons, four
violins, a double-bass, a piano and a singer, it's
like an orquesta típica of the fourties and
the fifties. Some of these guys even played in the
orchestras of the famous maestros mentioned above.
Read
more, +samples of 4 complete tangos
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Mala Pinta met
Travesía
Luister naar de nummers op de
nieuwe CD 'Travesía' van Mala
Pinta (Nederland)
2. Brumas porteñas (Alejandro Schwarz)
3. Mano brava (Buzón-Cadícamo)
8. El pollo Ricardo (Luis Fernandez)
9. Ventarrón (Maffia-Staffolani), zang:
Maria José Ortiz
10. Invierno porteño* (Astor Piazzolla)
Van hun eerste CD, 'Derecho
Viejo' kan je luisteren naar
1. Derecho viejo (Eduardo Arolas)
3. El Sordo (Gerard van Duinen)
directe link:
Kijk,
lees
en
luister
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Mala Pinta met CD
Travesia
Mala Pinta ontstond in 2003; de muzikanten
leerden elkaar kennen aan het conservatorium van
Rotterdam. Hun debuut vond plaats in het
openluchttheater van het Vondelpark in Amsterdam,
op uitnodiging van Torito Events. Dit leidde tot
uitnodigingen van milongas (danssalons) door heel
Nederland, maar de groep trad ook op in Paradiso in
Amsterdam en jazzclub Panonica in Den Haag.
In 2004 werd de eerste cd 'Derecho viejo' in
Brussel opgenomen. Optredens in Parijs en Londen
volgden, en de groep ontwikkelde meer en meer een
eigen geluid. Ook in 2005 bleef het aantal
optredens groeien, en speelde de groep een eerste
concert in België. De ontwikkeling van de band
werd onder meer versterkt door coaching van de in
Parijs gevestigde maestro Juan José
Mosalini.
Gedurende concerten in 2006 werd het repertoire
voor de cd TRAVESIA ontwikkeld, onder meer
gedurende een korte theatertoernee in Nederland.
Mala Pinta speelt in 2006 ook haar eerste concerten
in Duitsland, en de milonga Chalet du Lac, in
Parijs.
In 2007 verschijnt de cd TRAVESIA en maakt de
groep een eerste, tournee door Engeland. Ook wordt
Mala Pinta uitgenodigd in Bern, Zwitserland.
Mala Pinta probeert de mythe van de tango te
ontrafelen en een nieuwe weg te ontsluiten voor hen
die nog niet eerder met tango in aanraking kwamen.
Tango is al lang niet meer het exclusieve domein
van de porteños, de inwoners van Buenos
Aires. Het is muziek van de grote stad, vol van de
energie en de emoties die branden in de harten van
alle wereldsteden.
Het tangokwartet staat onder leiding van Gerard
van Duinen (bandoneón) die ook voor de
arrangementen zorgt. Hij leerde de tango als danser
kennen. In 1999 ging hij bandoneón studeren
en is thans leerling van de Argentijnse
grootmeester Juan José Mosalini. Verder
bestaat dit jonge tangokwartet uit Ivo de Greef op
piano, Arjen Leendertz op Contrabas en Caroline
Pearsall op viool.
17 november 2007, saturday,
in Amsterdam.
- Salon Academia de Tango.
18 november 2007, sunday, in
Dordrecht.
- La Milonga de Mabel.
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