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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Al maestro con nostalgia | |||
| 2. Vieja viola | |||
| 3. Orgullo criollo | |||
| 4. Pa' la Guardia | |||
| 5. La canción de Buenos Aires | |||
| 6. A mis viejos | |||
| 7. Al galope | |||
| 8. Percal | |||
| 9. Si Sos Brujo | |||
| 10. Viejo Jardín | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Sueño de tango | |||
| 2. Un cielo para los dos | |||
| 3. La puñalada | |||
| 4. Alma en pena | |||
| 5. Loca bohemia | |||
| 6. Chiqué | |||
| 7. Será una noche | |||
| 8. A fuego lento | |||
| 9. Mariposita | |||
| 10. Tierra querida | |||
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Product Description
Songlines magazine, August/September 2008 (issue #54)
If Simon Cowell worked in the world music sector, there'd already have been a `Buena Vista moment' for every nation on the planet, there'd be a TV show called BVSC Factor and every culture would be represented by a motley band of four or five old-timers clad in traditional garb. Argentinian producer Gustavo Santaolalla, best known in the UK for his Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain soundtrack and his funny dances at Bajofondo gigs has, in his Café de los Maestros project, created something akin to a Buenos Aires Social Club. In late 2003, Santaolalla travelled from his adopted Los Angeles to Buenos Aires in order to work with the surviving veterans of tango - former superstars such as Nelly Omar (b 1911), Horacio Salgán (b 1916) and Mariano Mores (b 1918). He created an orquesta típica full of veterans and emerging talents, led by Piazzolla's violinist Fernando Suárez Pas, and then took the singers and musicians into the studio - sometimes as soloists, sometimes in duos - to record an album. At the same time he had a camera crew filming it for posterity.
The result was a beautiful, varied and potentially classic set of recordings. The opening track features Carlos García (b 1914) conducting an orchestra playing a version of his `Al Maestro con Nostalgia'. It's gorgeous and highly evocative, but leaves you wondering if the album will be two hours of ballroom swooning. But Santaolalla is too savvy to heap too many old-style orchestral numbers on a modern audience, so he gives us a range of tango fixes. The following track features guitarist Aníbal Arias playing for Uruguayan singer Lágrima Ríos (b 1924), a legend in her own right and one of the first artists to perform tango alongside folk and candombe songs. Next comes the sweet-sounding milonga `Orgullo Criollo', then a thoughtful guitar number, a tango torch song and another orchestral setting - this time for `A Mis Viejos' by Osvaldo Berlingieri (b 1929), which shares its three-note motif with Piazzolla's `Adiós Nonino'. There are 27 tracks in all - and all are well chosen and delivered with incredible craft.
The album was first released in Argentina in mid-2005, and the delayed European release due to a desire to release the CD and documentary at the same time. But the wait is nothing - these artists have been around upwards of 70 years. Santaolalla's project is unique, well timed and of immense cultural value.
Chris Moss
If Simon Cowell worked in the world music sector, there'd already have been a `Buena Vista moment' for every nation on the planet, there'd be a TV show called BVSC Factor and every culture would be represented by a motley band of four or five old-timers clad in traditional garb. Argentinian producer Gustavo Santaolalla, best known in the UK for his Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain soundtrack and his funny dances at Bajofondo gigs has, in his Café de los Maestros project, created something akin to a Buenos Aires Social Club. In late 2003, Santaolalla travelled from his adopted Los Angeles to Buenos Aires in order to work with the surviving veterans of tango - former superstars such as Nelly Omar (b 1911), Horacio Salgán (b 1916) and Mariano Mores (b 1918). He created an orquesta típica full of veterans and emerging talents, led by Piazzolla's violinist Fernando Suárez Pas, and then took the singers and musicians into the studio - sometimes as soloists, sometimes in duos - to record an album. At the same time he had a camera crew filming it for posterity.
The result was a beautiful, varied and potentially classic set of recordings. The opening track features Carlos García (b 1914) conducting an orchestra playing a version of his `Al Maestro con Nostalgia'. It's gorgeous and highly evocative, but leaves you wondering if the album will be two hours of ballroom swooning. But Santaolalla is too savvy to heap too many old-style orchestral numbers on a modern audience, so he gives us a range of tango fixes. The following track features guitarist Aníbal Arias playing for Uruguayan singer Lágrima Ríos (b 1924), a legend in her own right and one of the first artists to perform tango alongside folk and candombe songs. Next comes the sweet-sounding milonga `Orgullo Criollo', then a thoughtful guitar number, a tango torch song and another orchestral setting - this time for `A Mis Viejos' by Osvaldo Berlingieri (b 1929), which shares its three-note motif with Piazzolla's `Adiós Nonino'. There are 27 tracks in all - and all are well chosen and delivered with incredible craft.
The album was first released in Argentina in mid-2005, and the delayed European release due to a desire to release the CD and documentary at the same time. But the wait is nothing - these artists have been around upwards of 70 years. Santaolalla's project is unique, well timed and of immense cultural value.
Chris Moss
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