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fave it Tango | Western European
13 tracks | 66 minutes
Released Apr 2006
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 Michelangelo ‘70 lyrics BUY MP3 03:03 Michelangelo ‘70 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 Michelangelo ‘70
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:58 Due agosto lyrics BUY MP3 03:58 Due agosto lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:58 Due agosto
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:04 Payadora lyrics BUY MP3 04:04 Payadora lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:04 Payadora
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 El Marne lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 El Marne lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 El Marne
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:00 Paralalo lyrics BUY MP3 04:00 Paralalo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:00 Paralalo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:13 Otoño porteño lyrics BUY MP3 06:13 Otoño porteño lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:13 Otoño porteño
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:55 Salganeando lyrics BUY MP3 03:55 Salganeando lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:55 Salganeando
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:10 Invierno porteño lyrics BUY MP3 06:10 Invierno porteño lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:10 Invierno porteño
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:03 Ostango lyrics BUY MP3 06:03 Ostango lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:03 Ostango
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:52 Tanguedia lyrics BUY MP3 05:52 Tanguedia lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:52 Tanguedia
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:31 A los amigos lyrics BUY MP3 05:31 A los amigos lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:31 A los amigos
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 09:33 Concierto para quinteto lyrics BUY MP3 09:33 Concierto para quinteto lyrics "GIFT MP3" 09:33 Concierto para quinteto
Tango, instrumental
Bio / Background
A new quintet based in Montreal, made up of young musicians from Argentina as well as from all over Canada, devoted to the rhythms of tango nuevo and especially to the uncontested master of the genre, Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992).
Combining some classic scores of Piazzolla with new arrangements of his works and original compositions, as well as those of other composers such as Rodolfo Mederos and Gustavo Beytelmann, the young musicians who make up the Sweatshop Tango Ensemble give a fresh urban take on this melancholy music. Pulsating rhythms, wistful violin, shimmering accordion lines, dark, expressive piano solos, double-bass and guitar transformed into percussion instruments: ear-cinema, mind-tango.
The name 'Sweatshop Tango Ensemble' refers to the place the band practices, and in fact, where the band first got started: a former Clothing manufacture, or sweatshop, in Montreal's textile district, on St.
↓ more ↓Laurent boulevard, an area populated by immigrants (predominately Jewish, Italian and Portuguese) since the end of the 19th century. Amy, our pianist, plays on a piano that was hoisted up into the space by hand through an old cargo-elevator shaft, and is placed where huge sewing machines used to sit, the welts they left in the floor still visible. The tango was also born in the immigrant areas of another great city, Buenos Aires, by working-class musicans from among other places Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia and Poland. In our "sweatshop" we pay homage to them.
Out of a converted clothing factory on the Main, Montreal’s textile district and the local equivalent of Buenos Aires’ La Boca neighborhood, the Sweatshop Tango Ensemble is an encounter between musicians from Argentina and Canada, conjuring up the ghosts of all the immigrants who ironed, sewed, folded and packed on the premises.
Jonathan Goldman (accordion)
Chantal Bergeron (violin)
Pablo Bonacina (guitar)
Amy Zanrosso (piano)
Pablo Seib (double-bass)
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12 arranged by Jonathan Goldman
Producer: Jason O’Connell
Recording Engineer: Marcela Zorro
Assistant Engineer: Dominique Lejeune
Design/ Photo: Dave Girard
Web: www.lesweatshop.ca
email: info@lesweatshop.ca
Booking: (514) 849-0780
© 2006 LeSweatshop Productions
Recorded at Studio Piccolo (Montréal)
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