Buena Vista milonga playlist October 2018

I was stoked to return to "Buena" where we ran a very special vocal milonga of translated tangos last year, one of my most sentimental memories of Kiev. Buena's organizer told me that I was totally free to play the music of my choice as long as I don't stack vals and milonga and vals tandas 4 deep. And I knew that Buena Vista gathers an experienced and enthusiastic community, so the night promised to be a lot of fun. It actually turned out to be considerably more stressful than I ever counted on, with the organizer voicing displeasure with my music choices time and time again, in a harshly sectarian tone. "Canaro is what they play in Europe, but we are emulating Buenos Aires here so we won't dance to it"- "Rodriguez is trash, not tango" - "You shouldn't ever play more than 2 tandas a night of the music which isn't from the 1940s!" (BTW I got much better reviews from the guests ... but I had to scramble to replace all the supposedly nonconforming tandas, because the boss). If only I received a more specific assignment, I'd churn out a torrent of Troilo and Tanturi :)

01. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim  "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta - danceable cortina cut"  2013 2:12

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

03. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El pollo Ricardo" 1938 2:30

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

05. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Zorro gris" 1938 2:46

06. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24

07. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tango argentino" 1942 2:37

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

10. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Como Has Cambiado Pebeta" 1942 2:37

11. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "En La Buena Y En La Mala" 1940 2:28

12. Gilda  "No Me Arrepiento de Éste Amor cortina long"  0:40

13. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Orillas Del Plata" 1935 2:44

14.Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "En Tu Corazon" 1938 2:47

15. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Cuatro Palabras" 1941 2:12

16. Okean Elzi  "Bez tebe cortina"  0:31

17. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Tormenta" 1939 2:38

18. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54

19. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Algun dia te dire" 1939 2:16

20. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "No me pregunten porque" 1939 2:54

21. Boney M  "Daddy Cool cortina"  0:21

22. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental  "La trilla" 1940 2:21

23. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental  "Catamarca" 1940 2:23

24. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental  "Shusheta" 1940 2:24

25. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental  "Nobleza De Arrabal" 1940 2:08

26. Caro Emerald  "A night like this cortina long"  0:29

27. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "Milonga, Vieja Milonga" 1937 2:33

28. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "De Pura Cepa" 1935 2:42

29. Juan D Arienzo - Instrumental "El Esquinazo" 1938 2:29

30. Zhanna Aguzarova  "Zvezda (The Star)" 1984, 1984 0:28

31. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "Adiós para siempre" 1936 3:03

32. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "Angustia" 1938 2:39

33. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental  "Arrabalero" 1939 2:32

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

35. Los Iracundos  "Puerto Montt rock" 1971 0:27

36. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Asi Se Baila El Tango" 1942 2:36

37. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Noches Del Colon" 1941 2:36

38. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental "Comparsa Criolla" 1941 2:53

39. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Casillo  "Pocas palabras" 1941 2:27

40. Gilda  "Noches Vacias cortina"  0:22

41. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Salud, Dinero Y Amor" 1939 2:39

42. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Tengo mil novias" 1939  3:06

43. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores  "Fru Fru" 1939 2:57

44. Zhanna Aguzarova  "Mirale Land cortina"  0:31

45. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "A media luz" 1941 2:31

46. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "A oscuras" 1941 2:48

47. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Se va la vida" 1936 2:39

48. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Te busco" 1941 2:26

49. The Doors  "Riders of the storm cortina"  0:32

50. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Qué importa" 1939 2:17

51. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "La bruja" 1938 2:18

52. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Ansiedad" 1938 2:42

53. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe "No Mientas" 1938 2:36

54. Kansas  "Dust in the wind cortina"  0:23

55. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Pena mulata" 1941 2:27

56. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40

57. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Yo Soy De San Telmo" 1943 2:20

58. Okean Elzi  "Bez tebe cortina"  0:31

59. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Jamas Retornaras" 1942 2:31

60. Miguel Calo - Raul Beron  "Que te importa que te llore" 1942 2:44

61. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Trasnochando" 1942 3:04

62. Miguel Calo - Raul Beron  "Lejos de Buenos Aires" 1942 2:54

63. Los Naufragos  "Zapatos Rotos rock"  0:34

64. Pedro Laurenz - Martin Podesta  "Al verla pasar" 1942 3:23

65. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Vieja Amiga" 1938 3:12

66. Pedro Laurenz - Instrumental  "Amurado" 1947 2:38

67. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "No me extrana" 1940 2:44

68. Rodrigo  "Cuarteto"  0:29

69. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Lita Morales "Noches de invierno" 1937 2:47

70. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Angel Vargas "Sin Rumbo Fijo" 1938 2:18

71. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Mario Pomar  "Temo" 1940 2:55

72. Pink Floyd  "Goodbye Blue Sky cortina long 2"  0:29

73. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas, glosas: Julian Centeya "Cafe Dominguez" 1955 2:58

74. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "Ahora no me conoces" 1940 2:34

75. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "Solo compasion" 1941 2:58

76. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "A quien le puede importar?" 1945 3:11

77. Aya RL  "Skora"  0:33

78. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Recuerdo" 1944 2:45

79. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes y Esmeralda" 1944 2:46

80. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Farol" 1943 3:22

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

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