Tangotrazo
11 conversations
Each conversation has a summary and chapters in Spanish and English; the full text shows once the channel agrees.
Alberto Magnone - La entrevista
9 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Alberto Magnone · 21 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews Uruguayan pianist, composer and choir director Alberto Magnone on the FM 2x4 program. Magnone traces his musical education, his discovery of jazz and tango, and the origins of 'Dandy,' the murga-opera he composed with Horacio Ferrer, along with the backstory of the tango 'La verdad, mañana.' He also discusses milongón, candombe and Uruguay's guitar tradition as roots of Montevideo's music.
Matías Mauricio - La entrevista
9 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Matías Mauricio · 12 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews poet Matías Mauricio for FM 2x4 about tango poetry. Mauricio discusses the relationship between lyrics and melody, Gardel's interpretive genius, the 'duende' of the golden-age poets, and his own path as a lyricist who began writing after 2001. He closes by insisting that newer generations must study the poets of the 1940s and universal poetry to keep writing tango with roots.
Gabriel Soria, Miguel Ángel Zotto · 20 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews Miguel Ángel Zotto for FM 2x4 radio, with Zotto now living between Buenos Aires and Milan. Zotto recalls his teacher Petróleo -- his philosophy of 'entrega', surrender to the dance, and how, with Cacho Lavandina, he invented the giro while fixing a roof -- along with his family's roots at Club Sin Rumbo, his friendship with singer Jorge Casal, and founding the company Tango por Dos with Horacio Ferrer and Daniel Binelli. He closes on the codes of the milonga: the cabeceo, the tanda, and the chamuyo.
Gabriel Soria, Juan Carlos Copes, Germán Kral · 24 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews Juan Carlos Copes for FM 2x4, with a stretch where director Germán Kral joins to talk about the documentary Un Tango Más. Copes tells how he took tango from the milonga to the stage, the origin of the Milonga de la Mesa, how he met María Nieves at Club Atlanta, and his philosophy of making tango easy to follow.
Gabriel Soria, Eduardo Arquimbau, Gloria Arquimbau · 44 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews Gloria Barrau and Eduardo Arquimbau for FM 2x4 — dance and life partners for more than fifty years, who grew up as children in the same Parque Patricios neighborhood. They trace how they started dancing together, the neighborhood clubs and the terrace at Club Huracán, their move from a shoe factory into television with director David Stivel, and their touring years with Francisco Canaro, including a trip to Japan while Gloria was still a minor. They close by remembering Canaro fondly, as someone who opened the road for other musicians and dancers.
Alfredo Sadi - La entrevista
10 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Alfredo Sadi · 27 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews Uruguayan guitarist and singer Alfredo Sadi on FM 2x4, with Sadi playing guitar in the studio. Sadi recounts his childhood in Montevideo (born March 14, 1938 in Pocitos and raised in the Colón neighborhood), his radio debut at age 11 under Pedro Medina, and his early passion for Gardel through a phonograph inherited from an uncle. He recalls encounters with Uruguayan and Argentine guitarists and singers, including Alberto Mastra and a little-recorded guitarist he tells several stories about, and his move to Buenos Aires in 1965, where he backed singers such as Alberto Podestá and Alberto Marino. He closes with the memory of forgetting the lyrics to 'El choclo' live on Horacio Ferrer's television program and improvising through to the end.
Hugo Rivas - La entrevista
10 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Hugo Rivas, Felipe Traini · 34 min · 0 chapters
On this 2016 FM 2x4 radio program, host Gabriel Soria interviews guitarist and barber Hugo Rivas, from the Boedo neighborhood, joined by guitarist Felipe Traini. They talk about how Hugo improvises and composes between haircuts at his barbershop, about recording 'El Porteñito' with Luis Salinas, about the influence of Brazilian harmony on tango, and about the tango artists who pass through his Boedo barbershop. They close by looking back at the guitarists who accompanied Carlos Gardel -- Grela, Canet, Adolfo Verón -- and paying tribute to Hugo's father and uncle, the Rivas brothers, who taught him to play. The interview includes several stretches of live guitar.
Fabian Bertero - La entrevista
11 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Fabián Bertero · 11 min · 0 chapters
In this interview for FM 2x4, Gabriel Soria talks with violinist and composer Fabián Bertero about his 'big band' orchestra, the tango 'Cara sucia' and his sextet 'Un Decibel'. Bertero recalls his beginnings on the violin in Esperanza, Santa Fe, his family of musicians, his admiration for Horacio Ferrer, and reflects on the arranger's role versus the composer's and the performer's in popular music.
Oscar de Elia - La entrevista
11 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Oscar de Elía · 9 min · 0 chapters
Pianist and conductor Oscar de Elía talks with host Gabriel Soria on the radio program 'Historia de Oro' about growing up with tango at home in the Flores neighborhood, his approach to arranging tango pieces (using 'El Flete' and 'Nocturna' as examples), how he came to direct the Orquesta Filiberto, and his piano-and-violin duo with Rafael Gintoli. He also recalls his early career playing in milongas before joining Ernesto Baffa's group.
Hugo Rivas - Entrevista
11 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Hugo Rivas · 19 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews guitarist Hugo Rivas on the radio program Historia de Oro (FM 92.7) on Friend's Day 2013, which happens to fall on Aníbal Arias's birthday, with whom Rivas studied guitar for a year and a half. Rivas talks about his training, being called in to substitute for Ubaldo De Lío, his admiration for Roberto Grela and Óscar Alemán, and his choice of hard picks to get a 'fat' sound. Between anecdotes and reflections on physical expression while playing, Rivas performs several live pieces, including a version of 'Nostalgias'.
Juan Carlos Cuacci - La entrevista
11 years ago
Gabriel Soria, Juan Carlos Cuacci · 11 min · 0 chapters
Gabriel Soria interviews musician and arranger Juan Carlos Cuacci about his work with Astor Piazzolla, his reconstruction of the original arrangements for 'El patio de la Morocha,' and his relationship with Cátulo Castillo. Cuacci also recalls his time at the Trova label, recordings with Vinicius de Moraes, and more than 40 years of musical partnership with Susana Rinaldi.
