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“Mariposita” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

“Mariposita” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

Anselmo Aieta, Argentine Tango musician, leader, and composer.

Anselmo Aieta

Bandoneonist, composer and leader (5 November 1896 – 25 September 1964)

A prominent figure of the generation of Tango men of 1910-1925, when by that time the schism of the interpretive styles of Tango took place, Aieta turned out to be the most significant rampart that traditionalism opposed to the new evolutionary ways of bandoneon playing.

It is in his overwhelming work as a composer where the flame of his geniality reaches a brighter light, either due to the huge volume of his output or because of that display of originality, beauty, and vigor that beats in each one of the melodies born out of his inexhaustible creative spring which has consecrated him as one of the top rhapsodes of the people.

He was a painter of happiness and sadness that changed colors for sounds.

Read more about Anselmo Aieta at www.todotango.com

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  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

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“Isla de Capri” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Ray in vocals, 1935.

“Isla de Capri” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Ray in vocals, 1935.

Wilhelm Grosz, Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor. Portrait.

Wilhelm Grosz

Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor (11 August 1894 – 10 December 1939)

Wilhelm Grosz was able to apply a considerable melodic gift to setting the lyrics of popular songs, some of which became international successes.

Among them: “Isla de Capri”.

Grosz’s classical compositions include three operas, two ballets, incidental music for three plays, scores for a number of films, orchestral works, a Symphonic Dance for piano and orchestra, chamber music, piano pieces and songs.

Read more about Wilhelm Grosz at wikipedia.org

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

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“Arrabalero” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, 1939.

“Arrabalero” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, 1939.

Osvaldo Fresedo, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer, with his orchestra.

Osvaldo Fresedo

Bandoneonist, director and composer. (5 May 1897 – 18 November 1984)

Born in Buenos Aires to a wealthy family seems to have influenced his art: his orchestra, refined and aristocratic, was the favorite of upper circles.

However, despite Osvaldo’s father being a wealthy businessman, at the age of ten, his family moved to La Paternal, a neighborhood somewhat away and humble, with flat houses in popular surroundings, which affected his destiny.

It was there where he started playing the bandoneon.

He had the longest Tango career ever found: over 1,250 recordings during 63 years.

Read more about Osvaldo Fresedo at www.todotango.com

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

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“Después del carnaval” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica with Ricardo Ruiz in vocals, 1941.

“Después del carnaval” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica with Ricardo Ruiz in vocals, 1941.

Carnival in Argentina

Music & lyrics: José Amuchástegui Keen.

Nearly all the countries in the world celebrate it, whatever their religion, according to their customs and traditions. 

That rapture, that makes a break in routine life, has been the origin of love affairs and disappointments, joys and sadness and even duels of passion.

Our carnival was not much different.

The most popular fancy costumes were those of Colombine, Pierrot, (Italian) cocoliche, harlequin, clown, the dangerous grizzly bear —whose use was banned because on several occasions they were set on fire (the costumes were made of wool and would burn soon—; and many others. 

Even a simple mask added to plain clothes meant some kind of sympathetic support.

Read more about carnival in Argentina at www.todotango.com

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“Vida querida” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, vocals by Ricardo Ruiz.

Juan Carlos Thorry

Singer, actor, composer and lyricist
(June 28, 1908 – February 12, 2000)

“My relationship with Tango is old, intimate, and sentimental. I was a young kid, and then my old man, who used to play guitar, taught me some accompaniments (dominant and tonic chords) with which I began my Argentine-Tango-Classes-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Buenos-Airesearly «two-four» songs. Which melody would I have learned first? I remember, through the distant time, the counter line of “La cumparsita (Si supieras),” the one that says: «Si supieras, que aún dentro de mi alma…» And then, years later, «Buenos Aires, la reina del Plata…» or «Rechiflao en mi tristeza…» when I became acquainted with Carlos Gardel. My first long trousers, the end of my high school studies, and the time I entered the university are closely linked to my early experiences at dance halls. We danced to venues called then cabarets, which later became boites, nightclubs, and boliches. There we held a contest of twists and turned dancing with the best players of the period: Aníbal Troilo, Juan D’Arienzo, Osvaldo Fresedo, Osvaldo Pugliese, Edgardo Donato, Alfredo De Angelis, etc. They caressed our adolescent dreams with the most famous melodies.” Continue reading at www.todotango.com.

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