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TANGO FIVE
When Buenos Aires became the capital of Argentina at the end
of the 19th century, the city was a melting pot of immigrants: southern and
eastern Europeans, Africans, Jews and natives came together above all in the
waterfront area of La Boca and in the slums. Influenced by the various musics
of the immigrant nations and the milonga, a type of song cultivated by Argentine
gauchos, the tango was born as the music of this city. At first it was a child
of the gutter. The dance of the streets and bordellos. The song of people
on the shady side of life. The tango reflected the dock workers' (portenos)
feeling for life. Its subjects are melancholy, hopelessness and unfulfilled
love; the melodies are rhythmic, passionate and sensual, the texts are blunt,
frivolous, provocative and melancholy.
The new music from the tango's capital city rapidly conquered the world with
representatives like Carlos Gardel and Anibal Troilo; this was maintained
until the 1930s. In the 1950s Astor Piazzolla expanded the tango tradition,
integrating classical music, jazz and free improvisation into it. This marked
the birth of the Tango Nuevo. Still, the subjects continued to be characterised
by melancholy sensuality and morbid passion.
The bandoneon is the ultimate instrument giving expression to this feeling.
Raul Jaurena, bandoneon artist from Uruguay and one-time flatmate and musical
associate of Piazzolla, stands at the midpoint of the production "Amando
a Buenos Aires." Jaurena counts amongst the most important representatives
of the Tango Nuevo. He has been working with the German group Tango Five since
1998; this group has moved freely and fearlessly through the various musical
fringe areas of classical, jazz, and world music for years, feeling at home
in all of them; they have long been fascinated by tango. Gregor Hübner,
jazz violinist living in New York, brings Gypsy sounds full of longing into
play; Karl Albrecht Fischer accompanies with virtuoso piano runs, Veit Hübner
supplies musical background with full, swinging bass notes and Bernd Ruf provides
the scenery of the melancholy cheerfulness of Klezmer music with his clarinet.
The lively ensemble playing of the five musicians is completed by the deep,
moving singing of the Venezuelan singer Marga Mitchell.
"Amando a Buenos Aires" is a declaration of love to the city of the tango and to the tangos of this city.
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Demos from the CD "Tango Five" will follow soon
Tourdates 2003:
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2002
Tango Five
featuring Marga Mitchell (vocals) and Raul Jaurena (bandoneon)
(2002 Peregrina Music PM50322)
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19.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Kusterdingen 07071-37483 Amando
A Buenos Aires
20.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Filderstadt, Filharmonie 0711-709760 Amando
A Buenos Aires
21.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Rechberghausen 07161-50125 Amando A Buenos
Aires
23.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Bad Wimpfen, Kursaal 07063-9503-14 Amando
A Buenos Aires
27.03.2003 TANGO FIVE Bad Kissingen, Kursaal 0971-8048-275 Amando A Buenos
Aires
28.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Offenburg, Salmen-Saal 0781-82-3297 Amando
A Buenos Aires
29.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Stuttgart -NEUERÖFFNUNG-, Theaterhaus
0711-402070 Amando A Buenos Aires (Kurzprogramm)
30.03.2003 20.00 Uhr TANGO FIVE Ludwigsburg, Scala-Theater 0711-2555555 Amando
A Buenos Aires
