Monday, April 24, 2017

Star Valley, Wyoming, after-longa playlist

Very excited to have taken part in the first-ever regional tango gathering in Wyoming, also drawing dancers from Utah, Montana and Idaho to the beautiful Star Valley! Hats off to David and Lucia for sawing the seeds of Argentine Tango in the greater Idaho Falls area, to Lily for graciously opening her home to the visiting tangueros, and to Rusty of Rustlers Restaurant and Saloon in Thayne, WY, and his team, for hosting the inaugural dinner milonga!
Salt River Range ahead...

Primer milonga en Star Valley!
Afton kids welcome the Temple, September 2016
Our carpool drove from Salt Lake City through the mountain passes, still half-covered by the spring snow, and near the beautiful, giant Bear Lake, and through quaint Mormon towns with such old-world names as Paris and Geneva, before reaching the verdant banks of Salt River in historic Star Valley. The first white ranchers have visited the area, then known for the salt springs of Stump Creek, as early as in the 1850s, but the massive Mormon migration didn't begin until the 1870s, when the valley received its present "marketing name". An early prophecy even envisioned a future LDS Temple in this semi-wilderness, on the hillsides East of Afton. And just a century and a quarter later, the prophesied Temple emerged there for real (opened in the fall 2016, the only LDS Temple in the whole Wyoming). But Star Valley is no longer just a traditional ranching enclave. With its location barely an hour away from the rich-and-famous Jackson Hole, it attracts all sorts of outsider folk now, outdoorsmen, artists, seclusion-minded white nationalists, you name it. And now tangueros!

Los ultimos abrazos...
Gabriel, Guadalupe, and David took turns DJing. I got my chance just before the final embraces, with an hour of impromptu music ending in the final Cumparsita, sticking to the records not heard earlier during the event, mostly old favorites. And then we were off to rustic Maple Grove Hot Springs!

01. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Me Voy A Baraja" 1936 2:26
02. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Alas rotas" 1938 2:31
03. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "A Oscuras" 1941 2:47
04. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24
05. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Fama 1930 2:38
06. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instruental "Belen" 1929 2:44
07. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Pobre yo" 1929 2:12
08. Sandro de America  "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
09. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Tormenta" 1939 2:34
10. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Te quiero todavia" 1939  2:54
11. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "No me pregunten porque" 1939 2:54
12. Lyube  "Bat'ka Makhno cortina 1"  0:18
Opening the swim
season @ Maple Grove
13. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "La mulateada" 1941 2:22
14. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Pena mulata" 1941 2:27
15. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Pena mulata" 1941 2:40
16. Soda Stereo  "Corazon elator"  0:28
17. Miguel Calo - Raul Beron  "Tristezas de la calle Corrientes" 1942 2:46
18. Miguel Calo - Raul Beron  "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44
19. Miguel Calo - Raul Beron "Jamás Retornarás" 1942 2:28
20. The Beatles "All you Need is Love cortina" 2006, 2006 0:19
21. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Cómo Se Pianta la Vida" 1940 2:23
22. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Danza maligna" 1940 2:28
23. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Mo  "Tabernero" 1941 2:33
24. Folk  "Shumel Kamysh "  0:23
25. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Nunca tuvo novio" 1943 3:14
26. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Recien" 1943 2:43
27. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:35
28. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "La Cumparsita" 1955 3:44

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Milonga Trasnochanda com Medialunas playlist, SLTF 2017

I had my plate already totally full with the Salt Lake Tango Fest organizer's duties, but after the DJing arrangement for the late-nighter fell through, people nudged me to take this extra assignment. And I gave in. So it's gonna be a triple-duty night: setting up the milonga while el gente isstill finishing the last sweet tandas of DJ Tommy at DF Studio; getting the medialunas in and out of the oven; and DJing. Sounds like fun!

Minutes after midnight, we are starting off with a gulp of intoxicating retro woodwinds, and the milonga floor fills really fast as the guests arrive from the just-finished evening milonga
01. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar "La Melodia De Nuestro Adios" 1938 2:19
02. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar  "A la gran muñeca" 1936 3:01
03. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar "Por La Vuelta" 1939 2:30
04. Soda Stereo  "Corazon elator"  0:28
05. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El garron" 1938 2:27
06. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental  "Alma en pena" 1938 2:46
07. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental  "Champagne tango" 1938 2:30
08. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24
The only contemporary - but still very classic in its feel - set for the night
09. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "Ella Es Asi (feat. Enrique "El Peru" Chavez)" 2011 2:32
10. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "Largas las Penas" 2011 3:02
11. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "Negrito" 2011 1:53
12. Soda Stereo  "Profugos"  0:33
A mix of Adolfo Carabelli's two tango orchestras. The early tango records show so much variety in mood and quality, it's much harder to mix them while sticking to the formal one-band one-period rule, and yet they are pure gold!
13. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. A. Carabelli)  "Niño bien" 1928 2:43
14. Adolfo Carabelli - Alberto Gómez "El 13" 1932 2:37
15. Adolfo Carabelli - Carlos Lafuentes "Pa' que lagrimear" 1933 2:37
16. Soda Stereo  "Corazon elator"  0:28
17. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "Toda Mi Vida" 1941 2:58
18. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "Maragata" 1941 2:46
19. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "El bulín de la calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:30
20. Sandro de America  "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
21. Edgardo Donato  Horacio Lagos "Quién Será (Vals)" 1941 2:20
22. Edgardo Donato - Hugo Del Carril  "El vals de los recuerdos" 1935 2:18
23. Edgardo Donato - Félix Gutiérrez "La Tapera (Vals)" 1936 2:59
Since the Argentine maestros originally claimed that they aren't going to stay much later than 1 am, I began to phase out, gradually, the Argentine rock cortinas and to phase in Russian and Anglo ones. But the guys stuck around for much longer ... and the medialunas, coming from the oven one purposefully small batch after another, lasted a bit longer than I feared, too. 
24. Alexander Dolsky  "At last, rainy September! (cortina 2)"  1979 0:15
25. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Recuerdo Malevo" 1941 2:33
26. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Que Nunca Me Falte" 1943 2:42
27. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos  "Oigo tu voz" 1943 3:07
28. Sandro de America  "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
29. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Pobre yo" 1929 2:12
30. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "T.B.C." 1928 3:02
31. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Racing Club" 1930 2:34
32. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24
33. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental  "Se dice de mi" 1954 2:52
34. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "El firulete" 1958 2:29
35. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "La cara de la luna" 1959 2:29
36. Pink Floyd  "Goodbye Blue Sky cortina long 1"  0:34
37. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Jamás retornarás" 1942 2:31
38. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Corazón no le hagas caso" 1942 3:00
39. Miguel Calo - Raul Beron  "Tristezas de la calle Corrient" 1942 2:46
40. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
How can one dance the night away without the legendary voice of Lita Morales?
41. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos y Lita Morales "Chapaleando barro" 1939 2:21
42. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales y Ravio Gavioli "Yo Te Amo" 1940 2:50
43. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos y Lita Morales "Carnaval De Mi Barrio" 1939 2:25
44. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
45. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante, Julio Martel  "Soñar y nada más" 1944 3:08
46. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante, Julio Martel  "A Magaldi" 1947 2:50
47. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante, Julio Martel "Pobre Flor" 1946 2:40
48. Russian Folk  "Shumel Kamysh "  0:23
49. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
50. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
51. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Nada Más" 1938 3:02
52. Russian Folk  "Shumel Kamysh "  0:23
Oh, interesting, so I went for a second tanda of Tanturi's while skipping such top-notch rhythmic choices as D'Arienzo and Biagi?
53. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental  "Comparsa criolla" 1941 2:51
54. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental  "Una noche de garufa" 1941 2:32
55. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental "Argañaraz" 1940 2:21
56. Soda Stereo  "Profugos"  0:33
57. Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "Yo Soy De San Telmo"  2:20
58. Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 2004 2:27
59. Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada"  2:22
60. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
A mixed romantic tanda "in the sweetest spirit of the post-1943 revolution times" when both the maddening rhythms and the seedy subjects were suddenly left behind.
61. Lucio Demare - Raul Beron  "Que solo estoy" 1943 3:04
62. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Alberto Carol "Bajo El Cono Azul" 1944 2:43
63. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Ortega Del Cerro "Una Vez" 1943 3:24
64. Russian Folk  "Shumel Kamysh "  0:23
At 3 am, and with some dancers already dropping out, it's high time for a nearly-unstoppable dramatic wave
65. Hector Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Muchacha" 1956 3:19
66. Hector Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Que tarde que has venido" 1956 2:55
67. Hector Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Fueron tres años" 1956 3:26
68. Russian Folk  "Kalinka-Malinka 2 (cortina)"  0:25
69. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar  "Damisela Encantadora" 1936 3:00
70. Francisco Lomuto - Instrumental  "Noche de ronda (vals)" 1937 2:34
71. Francisco Lomuto  - Fernando Díaz y Mercedes Simone "Lo Que Vieron Tus Ojos" 1933 2:23
72. Kisty Hawkshaw  "It's gonna be a fine night cortina long"  0:34
73. Edgardo Donato -  Horacio Lagos  "El Adios" 1938 3:09
74. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:07
75. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio  "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
76. Florindo Sassone - Instrumental  "Adios corazon" 1968 2:16
77. Florindo Sassone - Instrumental "Ojos Negros (Oscar Strok)" 1968 2:28
78. Lyube  "Bat'ka Makhno cortina 1"  0:18
The only Rodriguez tanda for the night (which is too short, alas) will be of foxtrots, masquerading as a milonga kind of a tanda :)
79. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Se va el tren" 1942 3:10
80. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Maruska" 1943 2:07
81. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Noches de Hungria" 1942 2:57
82. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Sorbos amargos" 1942 3:22
83. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
84. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
we hit the magic threshold of 3 couples on the floor, and so, the final tandas are announced. Wow, what a night! (And I still catch 3 hours of sleep before work!)
85. Lyube  "Atas cortina"  0:35
86. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Hasta siempre amor" 1958 2:57
87. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron" 1956 2:47
88. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Queriendote" 1955 2:49
89. Folk  "Shumel Kamysh "  0:23
90. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:48
91. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes Y Esmeralda" 1944 2:49
92. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel  "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
93. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
The survivors of the later-nighter of Salt Lake Tango Fest 2017!