#Tango Music

The video from the Fresedo seminar is up!

Video from the Francini-Pontier seminar is up: Enjoy!

The video from the seminar last week on Julio De Caro is up. Enjoy!

Ignacio Varchausky is at it again with a new series of his excellent Los Estilos Fundamentales del Tango. Go there if you’re in Bs As, or listen/watch after the fact like the rest of us otherwise. Enjoy!

This time with video. Enjoy!

Gabriel Valiente has released a dictionary of Tango which contains discographies of most tango orchestras. It was meant to be released as an ebook, but is only available in paper edition at the moment. I think it looks interesting, but find that kind of information is generally vastly more useful when available electronically, in a format that is searchable and sortable etc. I hope Gabriel finds a way to release the full dataset as well as his book. [Read More]

  by  Telstar Logistics 

Tangohub beat me to it. Head over there for a comprehensive guide to stores for buying tango music online. It’s written from a UK perspective, but most of the stores mentioned are international.

I would mention Tangostore also (aka Zival’s), but they have been offline for a while.

The long awaited TangoTunes project website is now online and accepting purchases. I’ll start by checking out the few Troilo recordings they have available at the moment. The purchase went through very smoothly. This is how they present themselves: TangoTunes is an Austrian-Argentine project with the aim to preserve the music of Tango Argentino. This way, we also preserve and support a piece of Argentine culture, which was declared World Heritage several years ago. [Read More]

by Aleera*

I have previously discussed too fast transfers from 78s. Age Akkerman has a well researched take on Di Sarli’s El ciruja which he found to be about 5% too fast on the Euro Records transfer.

by Paul Graham Raven The advances in DSP and processing power since I started ripping my cds to store all my music on a computer drive are enormous. Sometimes having an estimate of the BPM of a tango song can be useful, e.g. when searching for “slow” milongas, sorting by BPM would be useful. But tapping each song individually to store in tags – no way it’s worth the effort. [Read More]