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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda Lindelow

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda Lindelow

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Communication through the use of language is possible among those who share similar experiences.

The experiences which gave shape to myself made me able to dialog with milongueros born a generation before me in Buenos Aires, and see the gold glitters of their dance, the emotions of the neighborhood, the smell of humid soil in a raining day, the colors of gardens, the sunsets on the sidewalk, playing soccer with next door’s kids, while families bring their chairs out and seat to breath and enjoy the calm of the moment and the chat with the neighbors, those walks back and forth from school, the flavors of your mom’s meals, the sounds of horses bells and carts, the melodies of the street vendors, the knife sharpeners and junk dealers, your dad’s voice playing cards in the local bar with his friends, your grandma adoring those Argentine movie stars appearing in magazines or black and white tv shows… 

All that is foreign to a Porteño of my generation.


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“Sentimiento criollo” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

“Sentimiento criollo” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

Roberto Firpo

Pianist, composer and leader. (10 May 1884 – 14 June 1969)

In 1913, while playing at Armenonville, Roberto Firpo premiered his tango “Sentimiento criollo”.

Firpo was at this time one of the most recognized and celebrated composers of Tango. For that reason, the recording company Lepage Odeón, of Max Glücksmann, summoned him to make their first recordings.

In 1941, Carlos Di Sarli recorded this fabulous tango.

Read more about Roberto Firpo and the History of Tango

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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!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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“Malena” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1942 (English translation).

“Malena” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1942 (English translation).

Music: Lucio Demare. Lyrics: Homero Manzi.

Malena sings the tango like no other
and she puts her heart in every verse.

Her voice perfumes like suburban weeds,
Malena feels the pain of the bandoneón.
Perhaps in her distant youth her lark’s voice
took on that dark back-alley tone,
or perhaps it was that romance that she speaks of
only when she saddens herself with alcohol.
Malena sings the tango with a shadowy voice,
Malena feels the pain of bandoneón.

Your song
has the chill of a last meeting…
your song
becomes bitter in the salt of memories…
I don’t know
if your voice is the bloom of a wound,
I just know
that the sound of your tangos, Malena,
makes me feel that you are better,
better than me.

Your eyes are dark as forgetfulness,
your lips are pressed together like rage,
your hand are two doves that feel a chill,
your veins pump the blood of the bandoneón.
Your tangos are abandoned creatures
that pass through the back-alley mud.
When all the doors are closed
and the ghosts of song weep,
Malena sings the tango with a broken voice,
Malena feels the pain of the bandoneón.

Note: this translation was found by Suzanne Metcalfe in https://lyricstranslate.com. Thank you Suzanne for sharing it.

More Argentine Tango lyrics

Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

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!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

Ver este artículo en español

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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at La Pista

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at La Pista

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I was born in Rosario, the second largest city in Argentina.

You may think that not being born in Buenos Aires may be a disadvantage for someone who his whole life will eventually become Tango itself; but let me tell you that my childhood was much more similar to what the tango lyrics describe than those of any Porteño of my generation.

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“La puñalada” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

“La puñalada” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1937.

Pintín Castellanos

Pianist, composer, lyricist and leader (June 10, 1905 – July 2, 1983)

In 1933 an event that would change his life happened in a night club of Carrasco where he played the piano.

One night he offered the audience a new number of his, a tango that he had entitled “La puñalada” with a certain milonga air.

In that number all his fame would be based.

In the early summer of’36, Juan D’Arienzo —as usual— was ready to begin one more season in Montevideo.

And it was probably his intuition or that of his pianist Rodolfo Biagi —for many, the one responsible for devising the rhythm that made the leader famous— that transformed Castellanos’s tango into a milonga.

Biagi and the violinist Alfredo Mancuso were who transcribed the piece.

Read more about Pintín Castellanos at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

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!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

Ver este artículo en español

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

We have lots more music and history

How to dance to this music?