Cecilia Gonzalez Workshop Practica playlist, Nov 18, 2017

As an organizer of Cecilia Gonzalez workshop, I definitely have my hands full, but I blithely agree to host and DJ a short after-class practica on the last day of the workshop, which is also supposed to substitute our regular Sunday practica. Yet in a classic "assignment creep", this little thing morphs into a 2 (or perhaps even 2.5) hour playlist.
We begin from as unhurried and grounded tangos as only the Old Guard can be:
01. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. A. Carabelli) - Instrumental "Coqueta" 1929 2:45
02. Edgardo Donato - Luis Diaz "Adelina" 1930 2:58
03. Orquesta de Roberto Firpo - Instrumental "Una Noche En La Milonga" 1929 2:56
and on to the D'Arienzo Revolution and beyond!
04. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Ataniche" 1936 2:31
05. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El flete" 1936 2:58
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El Cencerro" 1937 2:40
07. Zhanna Aguzarova  "Old Hotel cortina long"  0:38
08. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ahora No Me Conocés" 1941 2:35
09. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Solo compasion" 1941 2:58
10. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ninguna" 1942 2:59
11. Soda Stereo  "Profugos"  0:33
Eugene Doga, a contemporary Moldovan-Russian romantic composer, is famous for his waltzes, and "Gramophone" may be the highest rated of them (in some lists, it has even been ranked as one of the top 10 classic waltzes of all times!). There is a potential problem here, though. It seems that essentially the same tune appeared on a soundtrack of a Greek movie, "The beekeper", 6 years before Doga recorded it. The composer was Eleni Karaindrou. I understand that one of the two composers must have been there first; for sure, the earlier recording belonged to Karaindrou, but ... who knows? So I even asked the keepers of Doga's fansite if they could check the dates with him. But they were adamant that the maestro composed it in the early 1990s. 

12. Evgeny Doga "Gramophone" 1992 2:28
13. Klezmatics  "Di Goldene Pave" 2000 4:01
14. Yann Tiersen  "La valse d'Amélie (Version originale)" 2006 2:16
15. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24
16. Eendo  "Eshgh e Aasemaani" 2011 3:31
17. Goran Bregovic  "Maki Maki" 2009 3:33
18. Kevin Johansen Kevin Johansen + the Nada "Sur o No Sur" 2002 4:53
19. Soda Stereo  "Profugos"  0:33
20. Jem  "Come On Closer" 2004 3:47
21. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole  "Over The Rainbow" 2001 3:32
22. Fool's Garden  "Lemon Tree" 1999 3:09
23. Sandro de America  "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23

Am I playing "Perro Viejo" for Jasmine
the old dog, who just tured 15 and 1/4 ?

24. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. A. Carabelli) - Instrumental "Nino bien" 1928 2:43
25. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. A. Carabelli) - Instrumental "Che, papusa, oi" 1927 2:37
November 6 marks birthday of the 2nd leader of Orquesta Tipica Victor, great Uruguayan-born bandoneonist Federico Scorticati. I will try playing some of his great valses later, too...
26. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. F. Scorticati) - Ángel Vargas "Adios Buenos Aires" 1938 2:36
27. Zhanna Aguzarova "Cats" 1987 0:21
28. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Shusheta" 1940 2:22
29. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
30. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "La trilla" 1940 2:21
31. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24
32. Otros Aires - Miguel Di Genova "Rotos En El Raval" 2005 3:53
33. Otros Aires - Miguel Di Genova "Los Vino" 2010 2:41
34. Otros Aires - Miguel Di Genova "Perro Viejo" 2016 3:21
35. Folk  "Shumel Kamysh "  0:23

Carlos Acuña (born Carlos Ernesto Di Loreto on November 4, 1915) recorded just one piece with Di Sarli before moving on to join Biagi, but it was a truly seminal song and I'm happy to play it today to mark Acuña's birthday. In 1940-1941, the recording companies were still dead-set to replicate the commercial success of El Rey del Compas. No song would be accepted if it didn't feature the madly pulsating beat. But with "Cuando El Amor Muere", recorded in August 1941, Di Sarli and Acuña demonstrated that there is room for the more lyrical song, and set the new trend for the tango of the subsequent years.
36. Carlos di Sarli - Carlos Acuña "Cuando El Amor Muere" 1941 2:48
37. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El amanecer" 1942 2:24
38. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Ensueños" 1943 2:40
39. Viktor Tsoy  "Red-Yellow Days cortina long 3"  0:33
40. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54
41. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Abandonada" 1939 2:54
42. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "No me pregunten porque" 1939 2:51
43. Viktor Tsoy  "Good morning, last Hero cortina long" 1989 0:35
Best of Scorticati's OTV valses!
44. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Lita Morales "Noches de invierno" 1937 2:47
45. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Ángel Vargas "Sin Rumbo Fijo" 1938 2:18
46. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Mario Pomar  "Temo" 1940 2:55
47. Soda Stereo  "Corazon elator"  0:28
48. Goran Bregovic - Iggy Pop "This Is a Film" 1999 4:14
(and I pass the reigns to DJ Brian).