001. Paolo Conte "Via Con Me" 1981 2:47
002. Feist and Ben Gibbard "Train Song" 3:03
003. Piatnitsa "Soldat" 2003 3:13
004. Lidiya Ruslanova "Valenki 1 (cortina)" 0:24
005. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El garron" 1938 2:27
006. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Alma en pena" 1938 2:46
007. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Loca" 1938 2:57
Many new cortinas tonight, mostly from Argentine and Polish rock of the decades past.
008. Soda Stereo "Profugos" 0:33
(the first tandas at the Avalon are more like ambient music for the sumptuous dinner served by Halina, the milonga's amazing host, and I play them relatively quietly. But beginning from the third tanda already, the dancers begin to fill the floor, and the volume goes up, too)
009. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Belen" 1929 2:44
010. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Fama "Flora" 1930 2:38
011. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. A. Carabelli) - "Coqueta" 1929 2:47
... OK, and a couple new Russian rock cortinas too :)
012. Lyube "Bat'ka Makhno cortina 1" 0:18
013. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet "Negrito" 2011 1:53
014. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet "Largas las Penas" 2011 3:02
015. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet "Ella Es Asi (feat. Enrique "El Peru" Chavez)" 2011 2:32
016. Aya RL "Skora" 0:33
017. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Decíme Que Pasó" 1942 2:39
018. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Adiós te vas" 1943 2:30
019. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Ensueños" 1943 2:42
020. Marek Grechuta "Korowod" 0:32
I'm surprised how recent are these records of the once-overplayed nuevo tango hits of the bygone era, the era when we were making our first tango steps...
021. Lhasa De Sela "La Cara de la Pared" 2005 4:23
022. Carlos Libedinsky "Vi Luz y Subí" 2005 3:18
023. Cirque du Soleil "Querer" 1994 4:34
024. Kult "dziewczyna o perlowych wlosach" 0:30
025. Zazie "J'envoie valser" 1995 2:52
026. Amélie-Les-Crayons "Ta P'tite Flamme" 2002 3:01
027. Klezmatics "Di Krenitse (milonga cut)" 2003 3:39
028. Soda Stereo "En la ciudad de furia" 0:24
029. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales "Chapaleando barro" 1939 2:21
030. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Yo Te Amo" 1940 2:50
031. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales "Carnaval De Mi Barrio" 1939 2:25
032. De Mono "Statki na niebie" 0:28
033. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Pocas palabras" 1941 2:27
034. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "La Vida Es Corta" 1941 2:26
035. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Argañaraz" 1940 2:22
036. Gogol Bordello "Pala Tute cortina 1" 2012 0:18
037. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "La cara de la luna" 1959 2:31
038. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Corralera" 1956 2:05
039. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Arrabalera" 1950 2:47
A Polish-Yiddish klezmery fox cortina signals a special Old Poland-centered tanda...
040. Adam Aston "Nikodem" 0:20
I always try to include a tanda of Eastern European antebellum music at the Avalon, and this time the set includes one lesser known but really amazing voice, the voice of Janusz Poplawski (1898-1971), who starred as the Warsaw Opera soloist in the late 1920s and early 1930s, before accepting an invitation to sing in the Polish Opera in Chicago. There are many tangos among Poplawski's nearly 700 recordings, and I picked "Grzech" ("Sin", a ballad of the fatal draw of the tango music, sensual embrace, and wine) just because it sounded very Euro-Argentine. Later on, I was surprised to discover the reason! This tango is composed by Eduardo Bianco, of "Poema" fame...
041. Janusz Poplawski "Grzech (milonga cut)" 1938 3:01
042. Piotr Leschenko "Golubye Glaza (Blue Eyes)" 1931 2:59
043. Jerzy Petersburski - Mieczyslaw Fogg "To ostatnia niedziela" 1935 4:06
044. Gayga "Graj nie zaluj strun" 0:34
045. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Yo soy el tango" 1941 2:27
046. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Maragata" 1941 2:46
047. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El bulin de la calle ayacucho" 1941 2:30
048. "Katyusha" 0:33
We break for a birthday vals ...
049. Rodolfo Biagi "Loca de amor" 2:16
050. "silence 5s" 0:06
... and then for Locotango's traditional "waterfall" community dance and a chacarera
051. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Yo No Sé Llorar" 1933 2:36
052. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Vida mia" 1933 3:23
053. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Angustia" 1938 2:39
054. Pink Floyd "Goodbye Blue Sky cortina long 2" 0:29
055. "silence30s" 0:31
056. "Chacarera del Rancho" 2:21
057. "silence5s" 0:06
As always, D'Arienzo classic resets the mood and refills the floor!
058. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "Que Importa" 1939 2:08
059. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "Ansíedád" 1938 2:32
060. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "Mandria" 1939 2:22
061. Lyube "Atas cortina" 0:35
This may be my first playlist extensively featuring Trio Garufa, a Bay Area band of 3 musicians from 3 continents which brags about being the first (and perhaps the only) US orchestra to have played at milongas in Buenos Aires. I played a "regular" milonga and a slow-longa and also hoped to play a vals of theirs, but run out of time...
062. Trio Garufa "Silueta Porteña (Electro Milonga)" 2008 2:35
063. Bajofondo "Leonel, El Feo (Milonga Cut)" 2004 2:15
064. Otros Aires "Perro Viejo" 2016 3:21
065. Sandro de America "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
066. Héctor Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Muchacha" 1956 3:16
067. Héctor Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Si me hablaras corazón" 1956 3:20
068. Héctor Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Fueron Tres Años" 1956 3:27
069. Soda Stereo "Corazon elator" 0:28
070. Orquesta Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires "Quien Sos" 2007 3:08
071. Orquesta Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires "E.G.B." 2007 2:26
072. Analíá Goldberg y Sexteto Ojos De Tango "El Adios" 2011 3:13
073. Marek Jackowski "Oprócz blekitnego nieba" 0:23
074. Color Tango "Illusion de mi vida" 2005 3:00
075. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet "Romance de Barrio" 2011 2:41
076. Osváldo Pugliese "Desde El Alma" 1943 2:56
077. Marek Jackowski "Oprócz blekitnego nieba" 0:23
078. Rodolfo Biagi - Hugo Duval "Solamente Dios y yo" 1958 2:30
079. Rodolfo Biagi - Hugo Duval "Alguien" 1956 3:14
080. Rodolfo Biagi - Hugo Duval "Esperame en el cielo" 1958 2:52
081. Viktor Tsoy "Good morning, last Hero cortina long" 1989 0:35
082. Trio Garufa "Milonga_uruguaya" 2012 4:11
083. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta - danceable cortina cut" 2013 2:12
084. Otros Aires "Digital Ego" 2016 3:04
085. Aya RL "Skora" 0:33
086. Miguel Calo - Raul Iriarte "Cada dia te extrano mas" 1943 2:35
087. Miguel Calo - Raul Iriarte "La noche que te fuiste" 1945 2:45
088. Miguel Calo - Raul Iriarte "La vi llegar" 1944 3:24
089. Marek Grechuta "Korowod" 0:32
090. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Re Fa Si" 1972 3:01
091. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La torcacita" 1971 2:31
092. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Zorro Gris" 1973 2:08
093. Gogol Bordello "Pala Tute cortina 3" 2012 0:19
094. Fool's Garden "Lemon Tree" 1999 3:11
095. Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" 2008 4:20
096. Damour Vocal Band "SWAY - danceable cortina cut" 1:39
097. Aya RL "Skora" 0:33
098. Carlos di Sarli - Mario Pomar "Duelo criollo" 1952 2:30
099. Carlos di Sarli - Mario Pomar "Tormenta" 1954 3:38
100. Carlos di Sarli - Mario Pomar "No Me Pregunten Porque" 1952 3:29
101. Sandro de America "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
102. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:49
103. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes Y Esmeralda" 1944 2:49
104. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
105. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1951 3:54
106. "silence5s" 0:06
(and the bonus post-Cumparsita track)
107. Jem "Come On Closer" 2004 3:47
The stats: 15 classic and 10 nuevo / alternative / contemporary / European tandas ("40% alternative ration"). And all the flyers for the Salt Lake Tango Fest (coming at the end of March) are gone!
Now off to the hills :)
Now off to the hills :)
