2969  David Byrne & El Arranque

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:03:59 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: David Byrne & El Arranque

Dear friends from tango list

David Byrne have been in Buenos Aires for his Grown Backwards Live tour, featuring Tosca strings also, a group that plays some special arrangements of tango and classical music.

Byrne is a very special musician , and while in Buenos Aires, he meet Ignacio Varchausky , the bass of El Arranque, who held a dinner to talk about local music. I would like to reproduce this part of the diary that Byrne made on his daily activities

Last night a bunch of us were joined at dinner (I had goat) by Ignacio from El Arranque. He mentioned that numerous groups are trying the tango/electronic fusion, but to his mind none of them have succeeded yet- not that it's not a worthwhile goal. Unlike lots of tangueros here, he and El Arranque are open to collaboration and new approaches, from the part and the future. They've unearthed actual handwritten old (40's) arrangements which they use- some of them fairly radical, he says. They're buried in peoples closets etc.
They're in the middle of completing a CD on which older masters join them and they play these guys compositions. He says this is unusual because it s not a very collaborative or open scene.

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The CD from el Arranque that is mentioned in this comment is already in post production, and has been included in the catalog of Epsa Music to be released this month november 2004, according to the site of this record company

Orquesta el Arranque

Maestros
[607000549]

Tango | Nov 2004

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It has been interesting to follow this group from their very early beginning as the first promotion of the Orquesta Escuela de Tango project, and then to their first CDs "El arranque" and "Cabulero" , with a style that was near to a Pugliese of the 50{s.
After that they made "Clasicos", a compilation of a tour through Japan and a recording at USA qith Wynton Marsalis, and then "Live at Rete due", a material recorded previously, in an unplugged concerto at a radio in Switzerland.

They also made some tracks as music group to the singer Lidia Borda in the CD "Tal vez sera su voz", and here they sound more like Di Sarli style (specially at "Nido gaucho" ).

And then , four people of the group made a CD "Neo Tango", with a version of "Amurado" from Laurenz , that has something different, they have something that could be called personal, not a style from the old orchestras of the golden age.

So now we will have to wait and listen to see which wind is pushing the sails of El Arranque , and wish the best for the sweating :):)

Warm regards
Alberto Gesualdi


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