Milonga Sin Nombre del Solsticio playlist, 6/21/2014

The circumstances conspired to rob us from time needed to organize the milonga, but we still got great attendance and fairly smooth operation. We are extremely grateful to those who volunteered to help us, especially Dave, Andrey, Maria, Atakan, and Raina! It wouldn't have worked without you!
On the empanada front, the new flavor this month was my experimental peach-banana (inspired by Analia's banana empanadas from last month, and the first flavor to run out, hurray!). I checked the Internet, but most recipes asked for processed ingredients, and I really wanted to go from scratch, so I struck on my own:

One slightly under-ripe peach, finely chopped
3 bananas, cut in half-circles
Juice of half a lime
A tablespoonful of sugar
A tablespoonful of quick oats

Steam peach in a covered pot with a very small amount of water for 5 minutes, add sliced bananas, sugar, and lime juice, bring to boil, add oats and set aside to thicken (the relleno ended up a bit too juicy, perhaps one may choose to thicken more generously or to evaporate away some liquid?)

Much of the playlist ended up being added / deleted in a hurry, but I still enjoyed occasional discoveries of tango DJ's homework.
01. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "El recodo" 1941 2:20
02. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Siete palabras" 1945 2:38
03. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Marejada" 1941 2:32
04. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
05. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El flete" 1936 2:58
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Jueves" 1937 2:33
07. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El Cencerro" 1937 2:40
08. Victor Tsoy  "Gruppa Krovi (cortina)"  0:36
I had some trouble finding the 3rd Calo's record to go with the classic two valses (which are, of course, often paired with "El vals soñador"), and ended up choosing a Donato unusual. 
09. Miguel Calo - Alberto Podesta  "Pedacito de cielo (vals)" 1942 2:21
10. Miguel Calo - Alberto Podesta  "Bajo un cielo de estrellas (vals)" 1941 2:37
11. Edgardo Donato - Hugo del Carril "El vals de los recuerdos" 1935 2:18
12. Lidiya Ruslanova  "Valenki 3 (cortina)"  0:24
13. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Adios Para Siempre" 1936 3:05
14. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Arrabalero" 1939 2:32
15. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "En la huella del dolor" 1934 2:48
16. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
17. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno  "No te quiero mas" 1940 2:18
18. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno  "Tabernero" 1941 2:33
19. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Llorar por una mujer" 1941 2:51
20. Russian Elvises The Red Elvises "Cosmonaut Petrov 1 (-3dB)" 1999 0:28
The quest to find tanda mates for Saca chispas ... and of course I was drawn to Canaro's "No hay tierra como la mia" but de Caro's sounded pretty intriguing ... however, just like with many De Caro records, the sound quality came out a bit too dull
21. Julio de Caro - Hector Farrel "Saca chispas" 1938 2:32
22. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Milongón (Milonga)" 1940 2:33
23. Julio de Caro - Hector Farrel  "No hay tierra como la mia" 1939 1:58
24. Maya Kristalinskaya  "Nezhnost (Tenderness)"  0:17
25. Carlos di Sarli - Jorge Durán "La vida me engañó" 1946 3:06
26. Carlos di Sarli - Jorge Durán "Duelo criollo" 1946 2:46
27. Carlos di Sarli - Jorge Durán "Un Tango Y Nada Mas" 1945 2:46
28. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
29. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Que Nunca Me Falte"  2:42
30. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Pocas Palabras"  2:21
31. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Así Se Baila El Tango"  2:34
32. Victor Tsoy  "Gruppa Krovi (cortina)"  0:36
The first of these light-hearted valses was used as a birthday dance, so I added Fru Fru to the list for everybody to enjoy a full-length tanda

33. Enrique Rodriguez - Ricardo Herrera  "Mañana por la mañana" 1947 2:49
34. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores  "Fru Fru (vals)"  2:57
35. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores  "Tengo Mil Novias (vals)"  3:08
36. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno  "Nyanzas y malevos" 1941 2:41
37. Lidiya Ruslanova  "Valenki 3 (cortina)"  0:24
38. Rodolfo Biagi - Instrumental "La Maleva" 1939 2:35
39. Rodolfo Biagi - Instrumental "El Trece 1938"  2:28
40. Rodolfo Biagi - Instrumental "Pura Clase" 1939 2:37
41. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
42. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "No esta"  2:45
43. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Tu!...El cielo y tu!"  2:59
44. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Al compas del Corazon"  3:19
45. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lago "Ella Es Asi - milonga" 1938 2:35
46. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "De punta a punta (milonga)" 1939 2:21
47. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Sácale punta" 1938 2:18
48. Maya Kristalinskaya  "Nezhnost (Tenderness)"  0:17
This really must be a four-song tanda, with Carablanca!
49. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
50. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintan "Igual que un bandoneon" 1945 3:02
51. Lucio Demare - Raul Beron "Como se hace un tango" 1943 3:14
52. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
53. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Nada más" 1994 2:43
54. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "La bruja (fast)" 1938 2:13
55. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Pensalo bien (fast)" 1938 2:20
56. Rodolfo Biagi - Andres Falgas  "El ultimo adios (vals)" 1940 2:09
57. Rodolfo Biagi - Teofilo Ibanez  "La loca de amor (vals)" 1938 2:13
58. Rodolfo Biagi - Alberto Lago  "Amor y vals" 1942 2:48
59. Carmen Piculeata  "Egy kis cigainy dal" 2013, 2013 0:29

Saul Zhadan's handwritten score,
dedicated to "dear Celia" and entitled,
in Russian,  "Your eyes"

Gitana Rusa, a composition by Saul Zhadan, a Jewish fiddler from Uman', Ukraine, has been smuggled out by sea from Odessa as a wedding gift to his son, a Buenos Aires banker, just before Zhadan perished in the Holocaust, and eventually renamed and remixed in Argentina with a subtitle "Tango Europeo" - yet even with the sound of a BsAs ochestra, it retains one-of-a-kind musical flavor and remains hard to pair up with other records into a tanda. My solution was rather standard - to combine it with other records of the same orchestra - and alas, it gave me the weakest tanda of the night. Malerbo-Medina's Remembranza may be a more fitting choice.
60. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Gitana Rusa" 1942 2:47
61. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Embrujamiento" 1943 2:52
62. Ricardo Malerba - Antonio Maida "Encuentro" 1944 2:20
63. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
More lyrical Donato favorites:
64. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "El Adios" 1938 3:09
65. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavioli y Lita Morales "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
66. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales y Romeo Gavioli "Sinfonía De Arrabal" 1940 3:07
67. Lidiya Ruslanova  "Valenki 5 (cortina)"  0:36
68. Pedro Laurenz - Hector Farrel  "Abandono" 1937 2:32
69. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podesta  "Recien" 1943 2:43
70. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podesta  "Todo" 1943 2:37
71. Carmen Piculeata  "Egy kis cigainy dal" 2013, 2013 0:29
A solid vals tanda but at milonga's homestretch, the penultimate tanda may have had more spice, more drama and complexity in it
72. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Mascarita"  2:53
73. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Paisaje" 1943 2:51
74. Pedro Láurenz - C. Bermudez y J. Linares "Mendocina" 1944 2:35
75. Lidiya Ruslanova  "Valenki 3 (cortina)"  0:24
76. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante  "Carillon de La Merced" 1957 2:50
77. Osváldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel "Remembranzas" 1956 3:41
78. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel  "Rondando tu esquina" 1945 2:48
79. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
80. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole  "Over The Rainbow" 2001 3:32
(80 total)