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Showing posts with label z-music: Tango. Show all posts

Tango Video from Gotan Project they are the new Tango revolution.

    Tango Dance Video with Gotan Project, they are the new Tango with edgy beats, cunning arrangement and style!

    Not only I am fascinating with Tango Music, but also with its sassy dancing style and sub culture.
    It has a cold air mysterious, primal yet sophisticate, and very very sensual all in one. How could one resist?
    "Gotan Project" is one of my most favorite band. I would consider them Tango though not in the traditional sense. But they took Tango to another dimension, and its very very edgy. And no one can do it better than them. :)

    Here is a video from Gotan Project - Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)

    Tango (the dance with the stop "Baille Con Carte") is one of the most fascinating of all dances. Originating in Spain or Morocco, the Tango was introduced to the New World by the Spanish settlers, eventually coming back to Spain with Black and Creole influences.

    In the early 19th Century, the Tango was a solo dance performed by the woman. The Andalusian Tango was later done by one or two couples walking together using castanets. The dance was soon considered immoral with its flirting music!

    Ballroom Tango originated in the lower class of Buenos Aires, especially in the "Bario de las Ranas". Clothing was dictated by full skirts for the woman and gauchos with high boots and spurs for the man.
    The story of Tango as told is that it started with the gauchos of Argentina. They wore chaps that had hardened from the foam and sweat of the horses body. Hence to gauchos walked with knees flexed. They would go to the crowded night clubs and ask the local girls to dance. Since the gaucho hadn't showered, the lady would dance in the crook of the man's right arm, holding her head back. Her right hand was held low on his left hip, close to his pocket, looking for a payment for dancing with him.

    **Anyway, I just want to show you guys this clip because they are the local Tango crowd in Seattle. The woman was my instructor a while back, she was really good. But I took only one class (about 5 sessions, now you know how good I am at Tango) due to my busy work schedule so I have to quit. I accidentally found the clip on youtube and I was like hey! I know those guys.


    The music in this clip wasn't that great, but watch the movement, they can really move!

    Related Post:
    -Piazzolla's LiberTango with Yoyo Ma
    -What kind of music to listen to while you draw

    Peace!

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Tango Video from Gotan Project they are the new Tango revolution.


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LiberTango Astor Piazzolla by Yoyo Ma Music that inspired Art

    LiberTango Astor Piazzolla by Yoyo Ma (originally composed by Astor Piazzolla) Music that inspired Art. It is one of top my favorite of all the tango composition ever made.

    I have encountered the force of Tango about 10 years ago. It was like a love at first sight or heard. It, somehow to me, has such a broad range of emotion from despair to hope, or sadness to joy within one composition, especially Piazzola's compositions. Then I do some digging around the internet and such so now I have a pretty good collection of Tango in my music library. With Tango, I can actually see things and visualize cool ideas. (More often than not, good grace and confident dancer ladies with a pair of extremely beautiful legs, but that is beside the point.) :) Different kind of music can generate different mood and different color compositions in your head.

    This post could count as my personal favorite stuff ;)

    Piazzolla is my most favorite Tango composer up to date.
    A bit about Piazzolla: In 1929, when Astor is 8 years old, his father gives him his first bandoneon which he had bought at a pawn shop for 19 dollars. In 1933 he studies with the Hungarian pianist Bela Wilda, disciple of Rachmaninov (One of my most favorite classical composers, no wonder I love Piazzolla's music), and of whom Astor would later say “With him I learned to love Bach”.
    In 1936, he returns to Argentina for good, where Astor begins to play in some tango orchestras. It is here that he makes his second grand discovery (after Bach with Bela Wilda), when he listens to Elvino Vardaro’s sextet on the radio, Elvino would later become Astor’s violinist. That alternative way of interpreting Tango deeply touches him and he becomes an admirer of Elvino. Astor’s love for Tango, and especially for that style of Tango, touches him deeply and gives him the courage to move to Buenos Aires in 1938.
    One of the prizes he won at this composition contest was a scholarship from the French governement to study in Paris (where he goes in 1954), with Nadia Boulanger, considered the best educator in the world of music at the time. At first, Piazzolla tries to hide his tanguero past and his bandoneon work, thinking that his destiny is in classical music.
    What was once a choice between the sophisticated music or tango, now would be sophisticated music and tango, but in the most efficient way: to work the structure and layers of sophisticated music with the passion of the tango.
    So Piazzolla basically changes the face of Tango forever.

    Here is a video or LiberTango:



    Anyway, hope you guys enjoy the music and get inspired.

    Related post:
    -What kind of music to listen to while you draw

    Peace!

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LiberTango Astor Piazzolla by Yoyo Ma Music that inspired Art


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