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Duo SEDA at the 2026 Roulotte Tango Festival
Here are some impressions of the encounter between music and dance at the concert given on Thursday May 14th by the duo Daniel Godfrid & Sebastián Espósito, performing under the stage-name of SEDA. The concert took place in the auditorium of the Maison de la Culture at Green Firminy designed by the architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known by the stage-name of Le Corbusier.
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Danzarin and the Search for the Perfect Partner
Her name was Danzarin, a tango dancer. She was looking for the perfect partner in her own special way. She had seen Julián before.
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Gotan Project featuring Osvaldo Pugliese and … Kruder & Dorfmeister
Osvaldo Pugliese is a tango legend who led the same orchestra for 55 years. So why is he the focus of an article which also mentions two electro DJs from Vienna, downbeat, trip-hop and muzak? The answer is because Gotan Project, the electro tango group, sampled riffs from Pugliese's tangos and specifically named him as one of their influences. Want to know more? Take a look and listen to the multiple music videos in this fourth article in a series of five inspired by the cover version of Chunga's Revenge by Gotan Project.
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Zappa remixed by Gotan Project
Chunga's Revenge may not be the most well-known track from Gotan Project's debut album, but its sung-spoken lyrics tells us a lot about the mix of influences behind Gotan Project. Chunga's Revenge has its origins a million miles from tango, because it is a cover version of a Frank Zappa jazz-rock tune. What? Zappa in a tango post? Yes, along with dubmasters King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry and Mad Professor. Want to know more? Step this way.
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Astor Piazzolla, Anibal Troilo and … Xavier Cugat in a Gotan Project remix
Anibal Troilo, Astor Piazzolla and Xavier Cugat make an unlikely trio. But they all get name-checks as inspirations and influences on Gotan Project in the song "Chunga's Revenge". When this track was released in 2001, tango dancers didn't immediately know what to make of Gotan Project. It was electro tango. But was it tango? This series of posts takes a look at the names behind this eclectic musical mix. What would you say to a little tango?
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Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
A number of composers have tried to put the seasons to music, so we can have them all year round. Antonio Vivaldi dominates the field with his Four Seasons from 1725. But since 1999, thanks to an arrangement for classical orchestra called Eight Seasons by Leonid Desyatnikov, a concert programme now alternates movements from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi and those by the Argentinian Astor Piazzolla from his tango suite The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, also known as Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. Let's take Piazzolla out from the shadow of Vivaldi by taking a closer look at his Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.
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The Musical Box
Like most people, my musical box contains its own personal mix. You'll find stuff about discovery, about heroes. There are recollections of those songs which just won't stop playing on your inner juke box. There are also pieces on Tango, which I discovered in France, and which taught me to dance and to live and listen to music differently. I hope you enjoy the mix!
