Thursday, February 24, 2011

Tango Frostbite -
Helsinki International
Argentine Tango Festival

The first international Argentine Tango festival in Helsinki Finland, Tango Frostbite will be held on the 24th-27th of February 2011!

Workshops & Show from Maestros:

Diego Riemer & Maria Belen Giachello
Fernando Sanchez & Ariadna Naveira


DJ's

Alexandra Kotelnitskaya "Dj Tangess" (Ukraine)
Leonardo Mercado (Argentina)
Kristian Salikoski (Finland)
Antti Suniala (Finland)



Daytime Milongas Fri, Sat, Sun 12-18

Thursday milonga: 20-24.00
Friday: milonga 21-05 coolest milonga
Saturday: Frostbite Gala Milonga 21-05
Sunday: Special milonga 20-03

Official Frostbite website frostbite.tango.fi
Frostbite on Facebook

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Tanda of the Week 08 / 2011 -
Orquesta Tipica Victor

Download or listen Tanda of the Week 08/2011 - Orquesta Tipica Victor

1. Orquesta Tipica Victor - "C.T.V." 1932
2. Orquesta Tipica Victor / Alberto Gomez - "Don Juan" 1932
3. Orquesta Tipica Victor - "Jueves" 1934
4. Orquesta Tipica Victor / Roberto Díaz - "Viaja Calesita" 1929


This tanda comes from DJ Yoghurt (Oleg Gobulev) from St. Petersburg. Thank you!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Tanda of the Week 07 / 2011 -
Osvaldo Fresedo

Download or listen Tanda of the Week 07/2011 - Fresedo

1. Osvaldo Fresedo / Roberto Ray - "No quiero verte llorar" 1937
2. Osvaldo Fresedo / Roberto Ray - "Isla de Capri" 1935
3. Osvaldo Fresedo / Roberto Ray - "Como aquella princesa" 1937
4. Osvaldo Fresedo / Roberto Ray - "En la huella del dolor" 1934


This weeks tanda comes from Dj Sevin Egemen from İstanbul, Turkey. She also prepared a nice introduction to Fresedo and the tanda... enjoy!

"Overall, it's very traditional sounding, but there are some interesting rhythmic variations, that make his music a pleasure to dance to and interpret. Fresedo also incorporates unique tonal variations that make his music recognizable, such as extensive use of harps and an occasional vibraphone."



Osvaldo Fresedo

In the 1920s, Fresedo worked feverishly as a composer and conductor. Although his style evolved somewhat in the following decades, its essence remained the same: his performing group always displayed true elegance! Fresedo was one of the innovators of tango in the early 1920s, along with such other young musicians of the time as Julio de Caro and Juan Carlos Cobian. All of them brought a high level of musicianly technique and were thus able to bring about the more refined musical style that characterized the what later became known as the tango of the Guardia Nueva ("New Guard"). There would have been no Di Sarli without Fresedo!

Roberto Ray

This tanda features Roberto Ray, a classic and highly influential vocalist that became closely associated with Fresedo's music since joining his orchestra in 1931.
And in the list of many associations that Ray had with different famous orquestas that reached a perfect balance as for accentuations, divisions, ways, temper and nuances to express tango, one that has achieved archetypal rank is the one that the voice of Roberto Ray and the Osvaldo Fresedo orchestra formed. All the expressive finesse of that outfit would not find a better vocal response than Ray´s. When he joined Fresedo's group in 1931, Roberto Ray was the first to establish the standards of style for the singers in the orchestra -diction, timbre, repertory, finesse and emphasis deprived of the impudence of an outskirter-, that would be later the Fresedian constant vocal feature in all the singers that after Ray passed through the ranks of that orchestra.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Tanda of the Week 06 / 2011 -
Edgardo Donato (Vals)

1. Edgardo Donato / Felix Gutierrez - "La tapera" 1936
2. Edgardo Donato / Horacio Lagos - "Con tus besos" 1938
3. Edgardo Donato / Horacio Lagos - "Quien sera?" 1941


 Donato, Edgardo - TOTW - Todo Tangotango.info - iTunes Store