nuevo tango
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992) creates the nuevo tango from the music of the brothels of Buenos Aires grafted with 1000 years of european music.
From absence, from distance, from hopelessness, from all of that Piazzolla's music speaks. An Atlantic separates the argentinian settlers from their cradle. From the nostalgia of the land that was once their home to the reality of the land that is now their home, comtemplating, not the aridity of the pampas, but the underworld of the city, tango appears.
But if tango is "sad", its sadness never slides into a reassuring romantic self-pity. It whispers in our ears grave things while it charms us: we submit to the dictatorship of rhythm, our limbs feel the calling for motion.
From Argentina to the world; from the speakeasys and brothels to the world; from the unwholesome trollop's room in a vacant building in Buenos Aires tango came to the world.
Piazzolla said:
Yo creo que cuanto mas se pinta a la aldea, mas se pinta el mundo.
I believe that the more you paint the village, the more you paint the world.
