Junando Practica Playlist, June 2018

Sorry it took so long to post. Can't catch up with all the things I need to do...
01. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La viruta" 1936 2:20
02. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Champagne tango" 1938 2:26
03. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Sábado Inglés" 1946 2:38
04. Agapornis  "Hasta es final cortina"  0:18
05. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54
06. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Tormenta" 1939 2:38
07. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Algun dia te dire" 1939 2:16
08. Maya Kristalinskaya  "A za oknom"  0:16
09. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Paisaje" 1943 2:51
10. Pedro Láurenz - C. Bermudez y J. Linares "Mendocina" 1944 2:35
11. Pedro Láurenz -  Juan Carlos Casas  "Mascarita" 1940 2:53
12. Los Iracundos  "Puerto Montt rock" 1971, 1971 0:27
13. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "Isla de Capri" 1935 3:16
14. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Canto de amor" 1934 3:25
15. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Sollosos" 1937 3:27
16. Agapornis  "Hasta es final cortina"  0:18
17. Anibal Troilo - Instrumental "Milongueando En El 40" 1941 2:32
18. Anibal Troilo - Instrumental "Cachirulo" 1941 2:37
19. Anibal Troilo - Instrumental "Guapeando" 1941 2:50
20. Carlitos Rolan  "Cuarteto2"  0:19
What is your opinion on Canaro's 1950s quintet milongas?
21. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "La cara de la luna" 1959 2:29
22. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Corralera" 1956 2:05
23. Quinteto Pirincho - Instrumental "Milongon" 1952 2:29
24. Gilda  "Noches Vacias cortina"  0:22
25. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44
26. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Corazon No Le Hagas Caso" 1942 3:00
27. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras" 1942 2:31
28. Lidiya Ruslanova  "Valenki 4 (cortina)"  0:24
29. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Vieja amiga" 1938 3:13
30. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Amurado" 1940 2:30
31. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "No me extrana" 1940 2:44
32. Russian folk  "Murka"  0:20
The fastest vals tanda I ever played... I imagined it might be my birthday music, although I never had a moment to formally announce it :)
33. Juan D'Arienzo - Walter Cabral  "Irene" 1936 2:29
34. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavio "Noches correntinas" 1939 2:18
35. Alberto Castillo  "Violetas (vals)" 1948 2:37
36. Folk  "Yablochko cortina 1"  0:21
Alberto Podestá recorded very few pieces with Di Sarli when they briefly resumed work together in 1947. The more tragic of them, especially "Dejame, no quiero verte mas", are amazing IMHO. Couldn't make a whole tanda keeping this mood without turning to the earlier, more familiar classics.
37. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Otra noche" 1944 2:37
38. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "Por el camino" 1947 2:48
39. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "Dejame No Quiero Verte Mas" 1947 3:23
40. ZZ Top  "Sharp Dressed Man cortina"  0:25
Horacio Salgan (June 15, 1916 – August 19, 2016), an amazing Afro-Argentine tango and jazz pianist, whose life spanned a whole century, is the orchestra leader whose birth we are celebrating this month. I picked two instrumental pieces for a commemorative tanda. The first one from the 1960s when Salgan teamed up with Laurenz in a short-lived quintet of tango's brightes stars. The second is from Salgan's own band from the 1950s. 
41. Quinteto Real - Instrumental "Ensuenos" 1965 3:10
42. Horacio Salgan - Instrumental "Los Mareados" 1952 3:23
43. Orquesta Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires "Quien Sos" 2007 3:08
44. Gilda  "Noches Vacias cortina"  0:22
Having ventured into the contemporary and the alternative with the previous tanda, we continue with a set of modern slow-longas.
45.  Trio Garufa "Milonga uruguaya" 2012 4:11
46. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim  "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta" 2013 3:23
47. Otros Aires  "Perro Viejo" 2016 3:21
48. Folk  "Yablochko cortina 2"  0:19
49. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "El Adios" 1938 3:09
50. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:12
51. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio  "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
52. Agapornis  "Hasta es final cortina"  0:18
53. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Toda Mi Vida" 1941 2:55
54. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Maragata" 1941 2:44
55. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El Bulin De La Calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:29
56. Russian Folk  "Gypsy Girl (cortina)"  0:22
57. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "Romance de Barrio" 2011 2:41
58. Color Tango  "Illusion de mi vida" 2005 3:00
59. Osváldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Desde El Alma" 1943 2:56
60. Kansas  "Dust in the wind cortina"  0:23
61. Osváldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:49
62. Osváldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Farol" 1943 3:22
63. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes Y Esmeralda" 1944 2:49
64. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1961 3:33
65. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "El Boulevard de la desilusion" 1943 2:16

Milonga Sin Nombre playlist, June 18, 2016

A smaller summertime milonga which gained steam slowly but still ended with a nice energy.

01. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Rawson" 1936 3:31

02. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Joaquina" 1935 3:01

03. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El Flete" 1936 2:56

04. Gogol Bordello  "Pala Tute cortina 2" 2012 0:19

05. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "La Viruta" 1938 2:30

06. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Alma en pena" 1938 2:46

07. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Loca" 1938 2:57

08. Stas Borsov  "Anyuta cortina" 2000 0:21

Haven't played Laurenz's milongas for a very long time

09. Pedro Laurenz - Instrumental  "Milonga de mis amores" 1944 2:27

10. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas  "Milonga compadre" 1938 2:42

11. Pedro Laurenz - Martín Podestá "La Vida Es Una Milonga" 1941 2:25

12. Vitas  "7, the element cortina" 2012 0:23

13. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Tres Esquinas" 1941 3:05

14. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Caricias" 1945 2:44

15. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ninguna" 1942 2:57

16. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22

17. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "En Un Beso La Vida" 1940 2:26

18. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Lo Pasado, Pasó" 1940 2:25

19. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Corazón" 1939 2:47

20. The Beatles "All you Need is Love cortina" 0:19

This piano-accented vals tanda was custom-build to use Horacio Salgan's great vals to celebrate the great Afro-Argentine tango pianist and composer's centennial. Horacio Salgan was born on June 15, 1916. He loved jazz and South American folk, and he earned his living playing at the movies and cheap cafes since the very young age, but his deepest affection has always been to the music of tango. The early steps of his tango career came with Roberto Firpo (but left no recordings), and Horacio was greatly influenced by Firpo and by a creative but now mostly forgotten pianist, Armando Federico, who played in Laurenz's orchestra. Salgan convened his first cutting-edge tango orchestra in 1944, then again in the 1950s when he famously introduced bass clarinet into a tango orchestra, and then carried the banner of tango through the "dark ages" of the 1960s and 1970s with his Quinteto Real. Salgan is considered to be one of the great tango innovators of the post-Golden Age era, although he always insisted that he was just driven by his love of tango and his artistic vision, and was in awe of the tango's past, and never specifically aimed "to innovate". We'll play a rather contemporary and jazzy-sounding tanda of his records a bit later. Good health to you, maestro!

(This very recent Salgan documentary is subtitled in English)

21. Nuevo Cuarteto Roberto Firpo - Instrumental "Clarita (vals)" 1955 2:16

22. Horacio Salgan  "Ilusion De Mi Vida (Vals)" 1952 2:58

23. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante  "Ilusion azul" 1945 2:37

24. Gogol Bordello  "Pala Tute cortina 3" 2012 0:19

Two tandas with very different, and very talented, female vocals:

25. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Triqui trá" 1940 2:34

26. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Yo Te Amo" 1940 2:55

27. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales "Carnaval De Mi Barrio" 1939 2:25

28. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19

29. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Queriendote" 1955 2:49

30. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Hasta siempre amor" 1958 2:57

31. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron" 1956 2:47

32. Beatles The Beatles "All you Need is Love cortina" 0:19

Juan Filiberto

Tonight is the first time I ever played Filiberto's music. Juan De Dios Filiberto firmly belongs to the earliest generation of tango orchestra leaders. Born on March 8 1885, growing up in the legendary rough neighborhood of La Boca, working at the docks and playing guitar and piano yet lacking any formal musical education, eager to underscore that the genuine innate feeling is the single most important aspect of tango music. Filiberto loved to blend tango with other traditional street music genres, and preferred to call it "Creole Music" rather than simply "Tango". To overcome his lack of knowledge of classical music, he took a job of a stage technician at the famous Teatro Colon, spending all his free minutes listening, and in the end falling in love with Beethoven. This motivated Filiberto to enter the conservatory at an unthinkable age of 24, to study violin. 

Filiberto's La Boca home slowly decays,
waiting until the government makes good
on its promise to make it a museum

Health issues forced the musician to leave his native city and to move to the foothills of the Andes. There, he composed some of the most popular tango hits of the 1920s: “Caminito”, “Quejas de bandoneón”, “El pañuelito”, "Clavel del Aire", “Malevaje”. But, uprooted again by the Great Depression, at the age of 47 he makes his way back to the capital, to a different La Boca house, and convenes his first Orquesta Porteña in 1932 (soon to be featured in the first sound movie about tango). The Orquesta Porteña incorporated clarinet, flute, and pump organ (harmonium) (which Filiberto learned to play himself), in addition to the "classic" instruments of a Tango Tipica. He also directed BsAs municipal Folkloric Music Orchestra for over 25 years, until his death. In the end, as I understand, the porteño purists simply wouldn't consider him a bona fide tango musician. But it is exactly the unusual musical texture of these valses which attracted me!

33. Juan De Dios Filiberto - Instrumental "Tus Ojos Me Embelesan" 1935 2:55

34. Juan De Dios Filiberto - Instrumental "Pensando En Ti" 1935 2:50

35. Juan De Dios Filiberto - Instrumental "Palomita Blanca" 1959 2:35

36. Vitas  "7, the element cortina" 2012 0:23

The promised Salgan tanda. As I recently confirmed, Argentines love the music of the centenarian pianist and bandleader, which in many ways presaged Tango Nuevo. Playing it, I discovered that it is the Nuevo music aficionados here who are most at home with it. Beautiful stuff ... for an alternative milonga, possibly? 

37. Horacio Salgan "Don Agustin Bardi" 1950 3:04

38. Horacio Salgan "Boedo" 1952 3:17

39. Horacio Salgan "Los Mareados" 1952 3:23

40. Vitas  "7, the element cortina" 2012 0:23

... and on the contrary, the expats but not the Argentinians appear to appreciate Canaro's classics. Which reminded me that I haven't played Canaro's hits with Maida for too long!

41. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Mi noche triste" 1936 2:45

42. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12

43. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39

44. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22

45. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:38

46. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Garua" 1943 3:11

47. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Recien" 1943 2:44

48. Beatles The Beatles "All you Need is Love cortina" 0:19

What a tango night without Donato's valses?

49. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Quien Sera" 1941 2:15

50. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Estrellita Mia" 1940 2:36

51. Edgardo Donato - Félix Gutierrez "La Tapera" 1936 2:54

52. Vitas  "7, the element cortina" 2012 0:23

53. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Recuerdo Malevo" 1941 2:33

54. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Como se pianta la vida" 1942 2:57

55. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Así Se Baila El Tango" 1942 2:34

56. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22

... and it's time for a birthday vals!

57. Francisco Canaro - Eduardo Adrian  "Muchacha" 1942 2:39

58. Russian Folk  "Gypsy Girl (cortina)"  0:22

59. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes" 1942 2:46

60. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Lejos de Buenos Aires" 1942 2:54

61. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44

62. Lidiya Ruslanova  "Valenki 4 (cortina)"  0:24

63. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Cordobesita" 1933 2:32

64. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Recuerdo de bohemia" 1935 2:36

65. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "En la huella del dolor" 1934 2:48

66. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22

67. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "Como Has Cambiado Pebeta" 1942 2:37

68. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tabernero" 1941 2:33

69. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno  "Danza maligna" 1940 2:28

70. Vadim Yegorov  "I love you, my rains (cortina 1)" 1999 0:16

Special: slow milonga sureñas. 

71. QTango Sexteto Canyengue "Milonga Triste (milonga cut)" 2000 4:06

72. Hugo Diaz " Milonga Para Una Armonica" 1973 4:25

73. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim  "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta" 2013 3:23

74. Beatles The Beatles "All you Need is Love cortina" 0:19

75. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Sorbos amargos" 1942 3:22

76. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22

77. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29

78. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22

I planned to wrap it up with Pugliese, of a later period than what I usually choose, but by a popular request threw in an extra tanda of D'Arienzo's crazy instrumentals.

79. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Emancipación" 1955 3:25

80. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Nochero soy" 1956 3:33

81. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Gallo ciego" 1959 3:33

82. Gypsy Folk  "Autumn Dew"  0:30

83. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La torcacita" 1971 2:31

84. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Zorro gris" 1973 2:03

85. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Este Es El Rey" 1971 3:10

86. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49

87.   "The Beatles - Michelle"  2:43