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Néstor Marconi

Nestor Marconi is a respected player from the bandoneón, the tiny accordion-like instrument that is clearly a prominent area of the traditional audio from the Argentine tango. He made an appearance on many recordings with Astor Piazzolla, the best author of the Tango Nuevo motion from the late area of …

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Quadro Nuevo

Though located in Germany, acoustic jazz quartet Quadro Nuevo dedicated its innovative energies to resurrecting the fading musical customs of Europe all together, specifically embracing the tango. Guitarist Robert Wolf, reedist Mulo Francel, accordionist Andreas Hinterseher, and bassist D.D. Lowka co-founded Quadro Nuevo in Salzburg in 1996. Originally commissioned to …

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Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel was tango’s 1st superstar but still among its most enduring performers. Revered mainly because an icon in Argentina since his tragic loss of life in 1935, Gardel — nicknamed “Un Zorzal Criollo” (“The Creole Thrush”) — was the first vocalist to look at the tango mainly because a …

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Kronos Quartet

Since its founding in 1973, the Kronos Quartet is just about the foremost ambassador of contemporary chamber music, determined and successful at wearing down barriers between music genres and between music artists and audiences. David Harrington, the ensemble’s creator and 1st violinist, was influenced to create the group after hearing …

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Astor Piazzolla

It isn’t hyperbole to state that Astor Piazzolla may be the single most significant figure in the annals of tango, a towering large whose darkness looms large more than precisely what preceded and followed him. Piazzolla’s put in place Argentina’s greatest ethnic export is approximately equal to that of Duke …

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Dino Saluzzi

Composer, arranger, and world-class bandoneon participant Dino Saluzzi was created in 1935 in Campo Santo, Argentina, the boy of multi-instrumentalist and composer Cayetano Saluzzi, and spent his years as a child in Buenos Aires, where he was an associate from the Orquestra Estable in Radio un Mundo. By age 14 …

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Los Shakers

The idea of a Uruguayan band within the mold from the Hard Day’s Night-era Beatles might seem absurd, nonetheless it do happen within the mid-’60s. Also, the Shakers (occasionally billed as Los Shakers on the releases) were pretty effective in mimicking the jangle of the first Beatles sound, composing the …

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Gotan Project

Before they perfected the electronica-meets-tango sound from the Gotan Project, Paris musicians Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. Mueller proved helpful together within the Children from Brazil and Stereo system Action Unlimited as soon as 1996. Launching their music on Solal’s Ya Basta label, both quickly captured the ears of …

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Osvaldo Golijov

Osvaldo Golijov is becoming major amount in modern music by creating a polystylistic technique, variously predicated on American music of several decades, on traditional Judeo-Christian liturgies, on folk customs of many countries, and on Latin-American affects, paying particular focus on the tango as produced by Astor Piazzolla. Golijov transforms these …

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Pablo Aslan

A local of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who now lives in NEW YORK, Pablo Aslan has specialized within an acoustic-oriented mixture of tango and post-bop jazz within the ’90s and 2000s. The acoustic bassist isn’t a tango purist any longer than he’s a jazz purist; although Aslan continues to be greatly …

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