The singer Beatriz Adriana Lichinchi (Argentina, 1952), alias 'Adriana Varela', is one of the most important current female voices singing tango in her country. This CD is the seventh of his recordings. Adriana shared production and collaboration with the Uruguayan singer Jaime Roos, forming a duo on the topic 'Pa'l abrojal'. Varela joined Uruguayan and Argentina popular music, resorting to 'murgueras' songs and styles like 'candombe' or 'chamara', besides the usual tangos and milongas of her repertoire.
During his last years, Frank Zappa concentrated on his "serious music," trying to impose himself as a composer and relegating the rock personality to the closet. His last two completed projects topped everything he had done before in this particular field. The Yellow Shark, an album of orchestral music, was released only a few weeks before he succumbed to cancer (the computer music/sound collage album Civilization Phaze III was released a few months later). This CD, named for a plexiglas fish given to Zappa in 1988, culls live recordings from the Ensemble Modern's 1992 program of the composer's music.
France’s Gotan Project has seen their recordings sell over two million copies worldwide to date , and has had their songs used in television commercials, radio ads, feature and documentary films – and more than a few corporate business presentations. Founding members Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Muller, and Eduardo Makaroff have an uncanny track record for melding Argentinian tango to virtually any music they choose…
This is one of the best albums celebrating the tango. It is indeed free Tango - full of tang and bite. Right from the opening 'A fuego lento' (over a slow fire) you know that you are in for something refreshingly different. This piece regards romance with sour disdain. It is a hilarious send-up of the old fashioned Hollywood torrid tangos where you knew that at least one of the dancers was up to no-good. These numbers are full of character, irreverent and sassy and the young ensemble play them with lusty abandonment. The El Chocolo is well-known but is given a very cheeky and mischievous treatment here…..Ian Lace @ musicweb-international.com