595  Outside the Box Music

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:16:08 -0500
From: Keith Elshaw <keith@TOTANGO.NET>
Subject: Outside the Box Music

Dear listeros;

Salutations to the newer-to-tango people taking a peek at TANGO-L. Welcome.


These days, it's great that any list of music of any definition surrounding
tango gets surprisingly long quickly.

It won't hurt if sales in everything Argentine Tango grow everywhere. So,
buy music!


Couple of Suggestions for OTB tango dancing music (well, 3):


GoTan Project - "Now" sounds (con bandoneón) from Paris (en español when not
instrumental) opening possibilities for expressive dancers. I've been told
people have purchased it through the site from France of Barnes and Noble.
It is in some classy book/music stores.


Tango Vivo de Montréal - Expressive originals by bandoneonist Denis Plante,
excellent musicianship (published 2000) - second CD coming soon. They
(quartet) play live and the CD was virtually recorded that fast. In the
Piazzolla vein (with some Astor compositions here). Some standard dancing
tangos too. Website: https://pages.infinit.net/gplante/tangovivo/index.html
From dancing to them live recently, I feel the new CD coming will be
something.


Juan Carlos Caceres - this Argentine composer/singer's CD's are a must
(especially for "milonga"). This is the "Tango Negro" guy. Commercially
available.



I publish a list of contemporary recording artists at
https://ToTANGO.net/contemp.html but it couldn't claim to be "complete."
There's a small stack of new-to-me CD's I'm going through now which aren't
listed, for instance. But it's there for the perusal.

Wishing you beautiful tangos,

Keith Elshaw
Montréal