Creative Boleos I

05/15/2013 at 09:53 PM in Tango Classes

Teachers: Clint Rauscher and Shelley Brooks
5/13/2013

This video is from our class on creative and unexpected boleos. We do not cover all of the instruction given in the class in this video. This demo is for our students to remind them of the material covered in the class.

 

Tags: advanced , boleo , classes , soltadas , videos

Tanda of the Week 52 - Adolfo Carabelli

05/13/2013 at 05:20 PM in Traditional Tandas

This week's tanda is a set from the Guardia Nueva period by Adolfo Carabelli and is great for dancing canyengue.

Adolfo Carabelli (1893 -1947) was a brilliant pianist and one of the best orchestra leaders in the early days of tango. As a young man, he studied music in Europe, but returned to Buenos Aires during the First World War. In 1926, he was hired as the artistic director of the Victor label. He recorded many famous tangos under his own name and as the Orchestra leader for Orchesta Tipica Victor. These orchestas were made up of some of the greatest musicians of the time and was only for recording only, they did not play live. This tanda includes two of his orchesta's most famous tangos, "Inspiración" and "El Trece."

This tanda also features two of the earliest singers of tango, Carlos Lafuente and Alberto Gomez. Both of these singers began their careers in the 1920s as refrain singers.

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Tags: adolfo carabelli , alberto gomez , Carlos Lafuente , Guardia Vieja

Alternative Tanda 27: Dubstep

04/27/2013 at 01:38 AM in Alternative Tandas

This week's alternative tanda is a very high energy set inspired by Dubstep.

This set is a lot of fun and has gone over well here when I have played it. Personally I love dancing to "Too Close." I think this is an example of what I look for in alternative music to dance tango to. The thing that I love about tango is the structure: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse. You have 4 shifts of energy during a song, usually from more lyrical/melodic to more rhythmic/beat oriented. While I find "Radioactive" a little cheesy and pop music sounding, it has the shifts that I like for dancing. "Too Close" has those shifts also from very tender to very bold. I love those transitions. It gives me opportunities to go crazy and to calm down.

I like "Sail," but it has less dramatic shifts. Much of the alternative music that people play, I find very monotonous. They are long and sound exactly the same through the entire song. When do I dance close, when do I open the embrace? When do I go from rhythmic to lyrical? I would have to force those shifts rather than them happening organically with the music, because the music is the same throughout the whole song.

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Tags: alternative music , Alternative Tanda , Alternative Tanda of the Week , music , Tanda of the Week

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