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| After it's over :) 5:15 AM on Labor Day Monday morning |
The flip side is that I have to leave my most beloved Cheesman Park colonnade milonga early to catch a small nap before my work shift. By 10:30 pm - when DJ Martin was just about to play La Cumparsita at Cheesman's - we are already at the venue, beautifully decorated by the original artwork by Amber Schneider & Tiffiny Wine and by Jesica Cutler's paper creations for the event. And I start playing-and-sound-testing right away. The guests begin to trickle in right after the official 11 pm opening time; the first track with dancers on the floor is Hugo Diaz's slow-longa. Thence, the real milonga play-set begins.
001. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Mi noche triste" 1936 2:45
002. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
003. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Ciego" 1935 2:57
004. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
005. Vitas "7, the element cortina" 2012 0:23
006. Adolfo Carabelli - Carlos Lafuente "Pa' que lagrimear" 1933 2:37
007. Adolfo Carabelli - Alberto Gomez "El trece" 1932 2:30
we just chatted with friends about countryside-themed tango songs, and especially about the lazy cows slowly making their way home across a ravine in "El carrerito", so I was tempted to play these old favorites "before the milonga really gets blazing" :)
008. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Fama "La estancia" 1930 3:25
009. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ernesto Fama "El carrerito" 1928 3:09
010. QTango Sexteto Canyengue "Milonga Triste (milonga cut)" 2000 4:06
011. Hugo Diaz "Milonga Para Una Armonica" 1973 4:25
012. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "La Viruta" 1938 2:30
013. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El pollo Ricardo" 1938 2:30
014. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Alma en pena" 1938 2:46
015. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Zorro gris" 1938 2:46
016. Sandro de America "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
017. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tango argentino" 1942 2:37
018. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tabernero" 1941 2:33
019. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Un tropezon" 1942 2:30
020. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Como Has Cambiado Pebeta" 1942 2:37
021. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "En La Buena Y En La Mala" 1940 2:28
022. Lidiya Ruslanova "Valenki 2 (cortina long)" 0:33
With the vals set, the floor comes truly alive at last. Whew!
023. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Orillas Del Plata" 1935 2:44
024. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "En Tu Corazon" 1938 2:47
025. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Cuatro Palabras" 1941 2:12
I wanted to deploy a set of energetic (and largely wordless) cortinas, and turned to rock classics, trying some from Argentina (like Sandro's hit two tandas back) and some from the Anglo world (like the one which closes the next tanda) ... but ended up relying the most on just one groundbreaking Russian 1980s band, with its insane variety of dark and driving beats which seemed so perfect for an all-nighter. We just marked 26th anniversary of Viktor Tsoi's untimely death, and I start from a snippet of his song marked by this foreboding, opening with a question, "How many more songs am I destined to write?".
026. Viktor Tsoy "Kukushka cortina long 2" 0:37
028. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54
029. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Algun dia te dire" 1939 2:16
030. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "No me pregunten porque" 1939 2:54
031. Pink Floyd "Goodbye Blue Sky cortina long 1" 0:34
032. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "La trilla" 1940 2:21
033. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
034. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Shusheta" 1940 2:24
035. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Nobleza De Arrabal" 1940 2:08
A wishful thinking cortina title? I don't think so!
036. Kirsty Hawkshaw "It's gonna be a fine night tonight - cortina long" 0:34
037. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "Milonga, Vieja Milonga" 1937 2:33
038. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "De Pura Cepa" 1935 2:42
039. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "El Esquinazo" 1938 2:29
040. Mammas and the Papas "California Dreaming cortina long" 0:40
I don't play 4 song tandas all that often, and tonight I sensed how much more freedom they givs me with gradually changing the emotional vibes within the tandas. It felt pretty cool to keep selecting sets of songs not just unified by their similarity, but also developing a directional theme...
041. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Adiós para siempre" 1936 3:03
042. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Angustia" 1938 2:39
043. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Arrabalero" 1939 2:32
044. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "En la huella del dolor" 1934 2:48
As I played a longer cut of Sandro's 1968 super-hit - for a more crowded dance floor - Gustavo Naveira stopped by and asked if I can play the *whole* song. And I didn't have quick enough thinking to tell him that I will do it, if he will dance it... Drats!
045. Sandro de America "Yo te amo cortina long" 1968 0:44
046. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Asi Se Baila El Tango" 1942 2:36
047. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Noches Del Colon" 1941 2:36
048. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental "Comparsa Criolla" 1941 2:53
049. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Pocas palabras" 1941 2:27
050. A.R. Rahman "Ringa Ringa cortina long" 2008 0:32
051. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Salud, Dinero Y Amor" 1939 2:39
052. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Tengo mil novias" 1939 3:06
053. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Fru Fru" 1939 2:57
054. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel cortina long" 0:38
055. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "A media luz" 1941 2:31
056. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "A oscuras" 1941 2:48
057. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Se va la vida" 1936 2:39
058. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Te busco" 1941 2:26
059. Viktor Tsoy "Kukushka cortina long" 0:55
060. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "Qué importa" 1939 2:17
061. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "La bruja" 1938 2:18
062. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "Ansiedad" 1938 2:42
063. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "No Mientas" 1938 2:36
064. Johnny Cash "I walk the line - cortina long" 0:40
065. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Pena mulata" 1941 2:27
066. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40
067. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Yo Soy De San Telmo" 1943 2:20
068. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses (cortina long)" 0:39
069. Francisco Canaro - Eduardo Adrian "Infamia" 1941 3:00
070. Francisco Canaro - Eduardo Adrian "Decile que vuelva" 1941 2:35
071. Francisco Canaro - Eduardo Adrian "Amando en silencio" 1942 2:54
072. Francisco Canaro - Eduardo Adrian "Corazon encadenado" 1942 3:28
073. Viktor Tsoy "Nam s toboj (For you and me) cortina long" 0:52
The final set of a nearly-continuous torrent of rhythmic and high-drive tandas. It's 2 am already, and we don't expect more new arrivals to the milonga who'd need to be energized into action. So it's now time to mellow it out, and to pave way for a transition to a mid-allnighter's dramatic peak, the one which I would normally reserve for the crescendo of the final hour of a shorter milonga.
074. Pedro Laurenz - Martin Podesta "Al verla pasar" 1942 3:23
075. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Vieja Amiga" 1938 3:12
076. Pedro Laurenz - Instrumental "Amurado" 1947 2:38
077. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "No me extrana" 2:44
078. Elleen Burhum "Interlude long slow cortina" 2006 0:41
the only tanda of slower valses. I wrote about these unusuals and their director here.
079. Juan De Dios Filiberto - Instrumental "Tus Ojos Me Embelesan" 1935 2:34
080. Juan De Dios Filiberto - Instrumental "Palomita Blanca" 1959 2:35
081. Juan De Dios Filiberto - Instrumental "Pensando En Ti" 1935 2:50
(break for the performance, followed by a group dance of the instructors to Di Sarli's beautiful classic)
082. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Ensueños" 1943 2:44
083. "silence30s" 0:31
084. Robotaki "Visual Dreams (Instrumental long)" 0:36
085. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras" 1942 2:31
086. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44
087. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Trasnochando" 1942 3:04
088. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Lejos de Buenos Aires" 1942 2:54
089. Viktor Tsoy "Sledi za soboj (Be careful) long vocal cortina" 0:53
We are often told to bracket the tandas with the strongest songs, leaving the weakest tracks for the 3rd place in a four-song set. First song to drive people onto the floor, the final one like a dessert after a meal course, right? But exceptions happen, and in the following dramatic contemporary classic tanda I felt that I needed to make the 3rd song the strongest! Why? Because it was dictated by the logic of the developing theme - from dramatic melody towards raw grounded energy. I already wrote about Ojos de Tango, and their singularly beautiful bandleader, here - and about the exceptional nature of their "El adios", making it so difficult to match it with their other, less powerful tracks. The following night at the Avalon, Marc Hussner tried to prove me wrong, starting an Ojos tanda with "El adios" and continuing with diminishing energy. It actually felt better than I expected, but still the drive was kind of dissipating towards the end. Do you have better ideas how to use this great record in a tanda? Want to share?
090. Orquesta Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires "Quien Sos" 2007 3:08
091. Orquesta Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires "E.G.B." 2007 2:26
092. Analíá Goldberg y Sexteto Ojos De Tango "El Adios" 2011 3:13
093. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet "La Yumba" 2011 2:57
094. The Blues Brothers "Theme From Rawhide (long vocal cortina)" 1980 0:33
we carry the crazy energy into a candombe tanda, and on to the complex and dramatic De Angelis and Pugliese sets
095. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "El tucu-tun" 1943 2:34
096. Alberto Castillo "El Gatito en el Tejado" 1957 2:37
097. Romeo Gavioli "Tamboriles" 1956 2:56
first of the extra-long cortinas for the night. Great modern rendition of the classic slow milonga made famous by Atahualpa. I started playing this fav track from near the second stanza, and Gustavo Naveira stopped by and asked me not to cut it short. Thanks Randy for dancing along!
098. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta - danceable cortina cut" 2013 2:12
099. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "El Tango Club" 1957 2:40
100. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "Felicia" 1969 2:47
101. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "Pavadita" 1958 2:52
102. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "Mi Dolor" 1957 2:51
103. Viktor Tsoy "Red-Yellow Days cortina long 1" 0:50
104. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Recuerdo" 1944 2:45
105. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes y Esmeralda" 1944 2:46
106. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Farol" 1943 3:22
107. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:49
This is the high point of the first 4-hour stretch of the milonga; I know that many dancers won't survive till 5 in the morning, and for them, this could be the crescendo. But we shall try raising another high wave of energy for the survivors in the two hours ahead!
108. Johnny Cash "I walk the line cortina long" 0:40
109. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Lita Morales "Noches de invierno" 1937 2:47
110. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Angel Vargas "Sin Rumbo Fijo" 1938 2:18
111. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Mario Pomar "Temo" 1940 2:55
112. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel cortina long" 0:38
113. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas, glosas: Julian Centeya "Cafe Dominguez" 1955 2:58
114. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "Ahora no me conoces" 1940 2:34
115. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "Solo compasion" 1941 2:58
116. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "A quien le puede importar" 1945 3:11
117. Sandro de America "Yo te amo cortina long" 0:44
118. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Guapeando" 1941 2:50
119. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "El tamango" 1941 2:35
120. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Comme il faut" 1938 2:42
121. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Milongueando en el cuarenta" 1941 2:33
for the late-night energy flow, transitioning to shorter tandas with occasional longer dance-able cortinas. The catch with these type of cortinas is that for the tangueros who sit them out, the energy may sag with every additional minute of a musical break. Five-plus minutes long salsa interludes invariably do this to myself! So tonight, I mostly stick with approximately 2 minute long pre-cut "danceable cortinas" instead of the full-length tracks. Couldn't make a logical cut of this one, though:
122. Fool's Garden "Lemon Tree" (full-length danceable cortina) 1999 3:11
Meanwhile our crazy chefs Mike Eblen & Trista do everything to support the energy flow with a late-nighter's traditional "early breakfast" :) ...
123. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Milongon" 1952 2:30
124. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Arrabalera" 1950 2:41
125. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Orillera" 1960 2:24
126. Victor Tsoy "Gruppa Krovi (Blood Type) cortina long" 0:36
127. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
128. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:07
129. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos y Lita Morales "Carnaval De Mi Barrio" 1939 2:25
130. Leonid Utesov "S Odesskogo Kichmana (cortina long)" 1935 0:44
131. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Anorandote" 1930 2:33
132. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Fama "Flora" 1930 2:38
133. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Belen" 1929 2:44
134. Cream Margot "Krem Margo - Poka Igraet Dzhaz danceable cortina cut" 1:41
135. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "En el volga yo te espero" 1943 2:40
136. Enrique Rodriguez - El "Chato" Flores "Las Espigadoras" 1938 2:49
137. Enrique Rodriguez - El "Chato" Flores "Los Piconeros (Vals)" 1939 2:47
138. Damour Vocal Band "SWAY - danceable cortina cut" 1:39
139. Lucio Demare - Raul Beron "Canta pajarito" 1943 3:24
140. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Sorbos amargos" 1942 3:22
141. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
142. Prince "Baby Knows (With Sheryl Crow) cortina" 1999 0:35
143. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Alma de bohemio" 1943 2:45
144. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:37
145. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Recien" 1943 2:43
146. V. Butusov "Goodbye America - danceable cortina cut" 1996 2:00
147. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortiz "Todo te nombra" 1940 3:33
148. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortiz "Carillón de La Merced" 1941 2:30
149. Rodolfo Biagi - Instrumental "El Recodo" 1952 2:25
150. Viktor Tsoy "Red-Yellow Days cortina long 2" 1:03
151. Donato Racciatti - Nina Miranda "Gloria " 1952 2:44
152. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron" 1056 2:47
153. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Hasta siempre amor" 1958 2:57
154. 17 Hippies "Marlène - danceable cortina cut" 2005 2:46155. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Gallo ciego" 1959 3:33
156. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Nochero soy" 1956 3:33
157. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
158. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
and after the hall quites down, and after the traditional 5:15 AM survivors photo, I can't resist adding one more track - Harry Roy and Stanley Black's 1938 rumba remix of the Cumparsita. And guess what? The tired tangueras break into an exuberant dance :)
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