Practica del Centro playlist, March 9 2015

I had an ambitious plan to play 3 hours of music without any overlaps with the previous Friday's playlist, and now I think I should have checked my ambition. DJ's table is simply not the right place for a "show of provess"! I definitely see how I could have rounded several of these tandas more smoothly if I stopped worrying about repeating what I played 3 nights earlier. But then it still worked quite well both for the dancers and for expanding my horizon. It could have made me really happy if we had better attendance. I guess after the first work day after $%#^@ daylight savings time switch, too many tangueros feel too sleepy for a practica :)

So eager to retry this tanda again mid-milonga, with couples on the floor! It's a funny quandary, one doesn't want to play so-so music and one doesn't want to expend good music for the sacrificial opening tanda which isn't being danced :)
01. Orquesta Típica Víctor (dir. Adolfo Carabelli) - Instrumental  "El chamuyo" 1930 2:46
02. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. Adolfo Carabelli)  "Nino bien" 1928 2:43
03. Orquesta Tipica Victor, A. Gomez  "Ventarron" 1933 3:03
04. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Nobleza de arrabal" 1940 2:07
05. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
06. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "La trilla" 1940 2:21
quickly adding two more tandas of "lesson-appropriate music" per Julianne's request:
07. Carlos Di Sarli Instrumental "9 Puntos" 3:25
08. Carlos Di Sarli Instumental "Viviani" 3:00
09. Carlos Di Sarli Instrumental "El Ingeniero" 3:16
10. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Al subir al bajar" 1939 3:05
11. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Tormenta" 1939 2:38
12. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54
13. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "El esquinazo" 1938 2:34
14. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Milonga vieja milonga" 1937 2:41
15. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "De pura cepa (milonga)" 1935 2:41
16. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "No quiero verte llorar" 1937 2:42
17. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Recuerdo de bohemia" 1935 2:36
18. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Yo no se llorar" 1933 2:36
19. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "Tu piel de jazmin" 1950 3:09
I already wrote about Francisco Canaro's earliest quintet here. Really slick instrumentals!
20. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El garron" 1938 2:27
21. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental  "El flete (clean)" 1939 2:55
22. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental  "Derecho viejo" 1938 2:28

Francisco Rotundo

An adventurous 1950s vals tanda. Rotundo's one-of-a-kind "Viejo vals" is often paired with Biagi's Adoracion, but what else to add to complete a tanda? As it is often the case with mixed-orchestra tandas, one is tempted to look amid other rare hard-to-match pieces, and that's how Salamanca's unusual vals "Ansiedad" got my attention here. I wrote a bt about Fulvio Salamanca before; let me introduce Rotundo now.
Francisco Rotundo taught piano in a conservatory before turning his passion for tango, and especially for tango singers, into a career. We don't play Rotundo's records too often, but in his glory days (late 1940s and 1950s) he was all the rage, especially famed for luring fantastic vocalists from the far better established orchestras - such stars as "Tata" Floreal Ruiz (after shelling tens of thousands pesos to RCA Victor to compensate them for the singer's termination of contract with Troilo) and Enrique Campos from Tanturi's orchestra (the Campos-Ruiz duet produced the best selling ever record of Rotundo's - this amazing vals). Close ties with the Peronism and personally with Peron's family got Rotundo banned from the airways and the music scene (and his wife, jailed), and so he's far less known to the older generation of today's Argentines than to the previous generation.
(+ Today is the birthday of Enrique Campos, a great occasion to showcase one of his most successful records!)
23. Rodolfo Biagi - Hugo Duval y Carlos Heredia  "Adoracion (vals)" 1951 2:52
24. Francisco Rotundo - Enrique Campos y Floreal Ruiz "El viejo vals" 1951 2:56
25. Fulvio Salamanca - Armando Guerrico "Ansiedad" 1959 2:41
26. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Garua" 1943 3:09
27. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Nunca tuvo novio" 1943 3:14
28. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Recien" 1943 2:43
29. Pedro Laurenz - Hector Farrel  "Abandono" 1937 2:32
30. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Mandria" 1939 2:26
31. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Ansiedad" 1938 2:38
32. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "No mientas" 1938 2:39
33. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Yo soy de San Telmo" 1943 2:32
34. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Milonga compadre" 1938 2:42
35. Pedro Láurenz - Martín Podestá "La vida es una milonga" 1941 2:25
36. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Sinfonía De Arrabal" 1940 3:07
37. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Te busco" 1941 2:26
38. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavioli "La Melodía Del Corazón" 1940 3:18
Beautiful oldies!
39. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "La estancia" 1930 3:25
40. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "Flora" 1930 2:38
41. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "Chau pinela" 1930 2:36
42. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "La serenata (Mi amor)" 1941 2:32
43. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Recuerdo" 1941 2:24
44. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Mi romance" 1941 2:19
45. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
46. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
47. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Solo una novia" 1935 3:23
48. Francisco Lomutoo - Fernando Diaz  "Quiero verte una vez mas" 1940 2:29
49. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar  "Por la vuelta" 1939 2:34
50. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar  "Nostalgias" 1936 3:05
Yes, the voice of Jorge Maciel makes Pugliese's Remembranza outshine all the other versions for me ... but in a tanda built around "Gitana Rusa", doesn't Malerba's Remembranza hit the spot?(I wrote about the tragic story of "Gitana Rusa" before)
51. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Remembranza" 1943 2:52
52. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "La piba de los jazmines" 1943 2:44
53. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Gitana rusa" 1942 2:47
the final song of de Angelis's tanda didn't really match up with the strength of the opening classics
54. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "Mi dolor" 1957 2:51
55. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "Pavadita" 1958 2:55
56. Alfredo De Angelis Oscar Larroca "Noche De Locura" 1954 2:28
I continue to ponder Momo Smitt's Albuquerque 2014 playlist, and two of the more modern records of this high-energy tanda came from there:
57. Fervor de Buenos Aires  "E.G.B." 2007 2:26
58. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "La Yumba" 2011 2:57
59. Ojos De Tango  "El Adios"  3:13
Slow, dreamy milongas
60. Alfredo de Angelis - Roberto Mancini  "La milonga celestial" 1964 3:22
61. Erskine Maytorena Qtango  "Milonga Triste" 2011 4:17
62. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim  "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta" 2013 3:23
63. Osvaldo Pugliese "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:49
64. Osvaldo Pugliese "Recuerdo" 2:54
65. Osvaldo Pugliese "Gallo Ciego"  3:34
66. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumen  "La cumparsita (Matos Rodriguez)" 1961 3:33
67. 17 Hippies  "Marlène" 2005 3:54
(67 total)

Milonga Nuestra Playlist, March 6 2015

Congratulations to Maria & Atakan & all the students and guests for the very successful launch of the newest Utah milonga!! So glad to have been there to help! WTG DF Studio!

People prodded me to break the "habit" of starting playlists from Di Sarli's rich instrumentals, like "this stuff is so good, why not save it for later at night" :) So we have 1930s Fresedo here:
01. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Tigre viejo" 1934 3:01
02. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Arrabalero" 1939 2:32
03. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Pimienta" 1939 2:52
04. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La viruta" 1936 2:20
05. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Champagne tango" 1938 2:26
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "El choclo (2)" 1937-07-26 2:35
A cortina tune too familiar to the Russian ear. This Brazilian 1996 hit was soon spoofed / remixed in Russian, its refrain line "Bate forte o tambor" (Hit the drums hard ) becoming a sound-imitating nonsensical "Мальчик хочет в Тамбов". A fiery beat combined with preposterous lyrics and a superb voice of an ethnic Uyghur crooner Murat Nasyrov made it a super-hit of Russia's hard times. 

07. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 0:18
(and BTW I needed slightly longer cortinas than I used ... North Church's usual 20-second clips didn't cut it for DF's hall, maybe because of the geometry of the room, maybe because of the attendance... I'll need 30-35 seconds next time)
08. Pedro Laurenz - C. Bermudez y J. Linares "Mendocina" 1944 2:35
09. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Mascarita" 1940 2:53
10. Pedro Laurenz - Martin Podesta  "Flores del alma (vals)" 1942 2:55
11. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
12. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno  "Mi piba linda" 1943 2:51
13. Enrique Rodriguez - Instrumental  "El morochito" 1941 2:34
14. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Como Se Pianta La Vida" 1940 2:25
15. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "No está" 1942 2:45
16. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "Volver a vernos" 1942 2:48
17. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "Tu el cielo y tu" 1944 2:59
18. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 0:18
I haven't played these classic Canaro's milongas for so long, I was almost surprised much complexity one can find there!.
19. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Larga las penas" 1935 3:09
20. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Silueta Porteña" 1936 2:58
21. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Milonga criolla" 1936 3:00
22. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
23. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "Una carta" 1941 2:50
24. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "Pa'que bailen los muchachos" 1942 2:49
25. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "El bulín de la calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:30
26. Various Artists  "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 1992 0:23
27. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Jamás retornarás" 1942 2:31
28. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes"1942 2:46
29. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Corazón no le hagas caso" 1942 3:00
An alternative tanda, just one, by Atakan's request. It takes me quite a bit longer to put these together - memory just doesn't serve up the possibilities as quickly as with the classics. I love these records and at the same time I don't have an instant vision where and how they fit together!
30. Fool's Garden "Lemon tree" 1995 3:09
31. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole  "Over The Rainbow" 2001 3:32
32. Souad Massi  "Ghir Enta" 2008 5:06
... and finally the 50s Di Sarli's, except I couldn't get past these incredible vocal pieces
33. Carlos di Sarli - Jorge Durán  "Sonatina" 1956-10-19 3:11
34. Carlos di Sarli - Argentino Ledesma  "Fumando espero" 1956-02-03 4:02
35. Carlos di Sarli - Oscar Serpa  "Verdemar" 1955-09-16 3:01
36. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 1" 0:17
37. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "Esquinas porteñas" 1942 2:51
38. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "Tristeza criolla" 1945 2:27
39. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas  "Que me pasara (vals)" 1941 2:29
40. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
41. Lucio Demare - Raúl Berón  "Canta pajarito" 1943 3:33
42. Lucio Demare - Raúl Berón "Como se hace un tango" 1943 3:14
43. Lucio Demare - Raúl Berón "Una emocion" 1943 2:42
44. Rodolfo Biagi - Andrés Falgás  "La chacarera" 1940 2:24
45. Rodolfo Biagi - Andrés Falgás "Cielo!" 1939 2:31
46. Rodolfo Biagi - Andrés Falgás "Son cosas del bandoneon" 1939 2:44
47. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 1"  0:17
48. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 1941 2:27
49. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada" 1941 2:22
50. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40
First time I played "Envidia", its tragic darkness is really striking
51. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Envidia" 1936 3:18
52. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Invierno" 1937 3:26
53. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Nada mas" 1938 3:00

Maruja Pacheco Huergo (1916-1983)

"Triqui trá", the final and the most most mischievous tango of the following tanda, has been created specially for Lita Morales by Maruja Pacheco, one of the most versatile female talents of tango. An actress, a musician, a singer, a poet, and a composer who left a very strong mark on the masterpieces of Donato's orchestra. Alas, Maruja also left the world of tango for good after Lita was made to leave it. She made the second career as an author of children's songs.
"Triqui tra" may be too light-hearted to be easily mixed into a tanda, and it isn't commonly played. Here I start from a slightly more bitter "Sinsabor" before continuing to Lita's more playful records,
54. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos - Lita Morales "Sinsabor" 1939 2:53
55. Edgardo Donato  "Yo Te Amo (Lita Morales)" 1940 2:50
56. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Triqui trá" 1940 2:34
57. Carrapicho  "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 2007, 2007 0:18
58. Rodolfo Biagi - Andres Falgas  "El ultimo adios (vals)" 1940 2:09
59. Rodolfo Biagi - Alberto Amor  "Paloma (vals)" 1945 2:29
60. Rodolfo Biagi - Alberto Lago  "Amor y vals" 1942 2:48
61. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
62. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Sollosos" 1937 3:27
63. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Vida mia" 1933 3:23

Momo Smitt rapping tango

64. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Nieblas del riachuelo" 1937 2:25
The lyrics of "Mañana zarpa un barco" has just been translated into English by Michael Krugman
65. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Malena" 1942 2:57
66. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Mañana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
67. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
68. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "El Tango Club" 1957 2:40
69. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "Felicia" 1969 2:47
70. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "Mi dolor" 1957 2:51
71. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
The closing post-Cumparsita track is from Momo's breathtaking Albuguerque Tango Festival 2014 playlist - thanks, Momo!
72. Feist and Ben Gibbard  "Train Song"  3:03
(72 total)