About
I came across Argentine tango by chance and was fascinated from the very beginning—by everything, but above all by the music, which I consider one of the high points of human creativity and art. For years, I’ve been trying to make this music more tangible, to make the understanding of its magic more accessible to others. That’s why I launched the TangoTunes project—to counter the disrespect of playing compressed and often overly sped-up tango music. At TangoTunes, we transfer directly from the original medium, which in 95% of cases is shellac, the predecessor of the vinyl record.
In my sets, I play “traditionally,” and for one simple reason: modern recordings of classic tangos by contemporary orchestras simply cannot match the quality of the original recordings—plain and simple.
If attention to the music (and the lyrics) received even a fraction of the focus that goes into meticulously studying the position of the middle left toe during a left gancho in a 10-knot west wind on the summer solstice, every tango scene would benefit immensely. What’s needed are knowledgeable tango people who can at least complement the Pilates and fitness instructors and bring more of the full cultural context to the dancers.
