Tango Orkestret: Tango de Copenhague

Tango / Tango Nuevo
premiera polska: 2006-11-27
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Dania
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
multikulti.com:
Arcyciekawe pogranicze jazzu, tanga i muzyki klasycznej, melodyka Piazzolli, skandynawska powściągliwość i prawdziwy jazzowy liryzm - czy można przejść obojętnie ?!

Dziennik, 2007-01, ocena: * * * *
'...Współczesna klasyka bywa trudna w odbiorze. Nie dziwi więc, że nawet muzycy sięgają po bardziej przyjazny repertuar. Tango Orkestret to kwintet wywodzący się z kręgu muzyki klasycznej i jazzowej. Oryginalne kompozycje muzyków są bardzo barwnie zaaranżowane i starannie wykonane. 'Tanga z Kopenhagi' inspirowane są twórczościę Piazzoli, ale mają skandynawski, pełen przestrzeni charakter. Kontrabasistę Jespera Lundgaarda pamiętamy z Jazz Jamboree w Warszawie, kiedy grał ze słynną Thad Jones - Mel Lewis Orchestra. Oprócz niego tylko skrzypce, gitara, klarnet basowy i marimba - a tyle muzyki...'
autor: Krzesimir Dębski

Editor's info:
The interest in the tango is increasing steadily. It is danced wherever people meet, all over the world, but the tango is more than mere dance music.

It is safe to say that Danish Tango Orkestret has helped pave the way for the renaissance. On a number of authentic and unique records the ensemble has kept the flag flying for more than 15 years, with high quality and great ambitions. And the greater success of foreign phenomena such as Gotan Project is merely due to the commercial market mechanisms.

Tango Orkestret was founded in 1989 by five Danish musicians - guitarist Palle Windfeldt, vibes and marimba player Kaare Munkholm, violinist Kristian Jorgensen, clarinettist and saxophonist Henrik Sveidahl and percussionist Carl Quist Moller. It has been rewarding and interesting ever since to follow Tango Orkestret. When the orchestra was founded, the 'tango to-listen-to' was practically new to us here in Europe, and to hear an enthusiastic young Danish band throw itself onto the Argentine tango has been a wonderful and encouraging experience. Also it has been a pleasure since then to witness the way in which the ensemble has immersed itself deeper and deeper in the South American music and adopted its language - and not just as a world-music trend, here today and gone tomorrow. The orchestra's releases and concerts have helped secure a new, large and faithful audience both here and abroad.

Tango Orkestret has released six cd's before TANGO DE COPENHAGUE - all on Stunt Records, and almost all of them focusing on Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla - TANGO ORKESTRET (1992), LO QUE VENDRÁ (1995), MOTELLO (1998) (film music composed by Tango Orkestret and featuring singer Randi Laubek), 1999 (1999), TANGO ORKESTRET AND MARCELO NISINMAN (2001) and HORA CERO (2003).

In 2003, on HORA CERO, the world-famous Danish jazz bassist Jesper Lundgaard was introduced on acoustic bass, and on TANGO DE COPENHAGUE he has taken over percussionist Carl Quist Moller's place as the fifth member of the orchestra.

On this, the ensemble's seventh release, Tango Orkestret tackles the music in a slightly different way. This time the musicians do not interpret the music of the Argentine maestro, Astor Piazzolla, instead they have composed the music themselves, in his tradition and as a true declaration of love - TANGO DE COPENHAGUE.

The result is breathtaking, warm and just right - playful and artistic. It's the sound of wood and vintage wine, with no electronics whatsoever, no irrelevancies, just true human music captured in a perfect, spacious sound frame, with Jesper Lundgaard's deep bass at the bottom and Kristian Jorgensen's languorous and clear-cut violin at the other end, completed by Henrik Sveidahl's clarinets, Palle Windfeldt's guitar and Kaare Munkholm's perfect vibes and marimba.

It is not at all easy to play the tango. But Tango Orkestret makes it sound as if it were!

Henrik Sveidahl (clarinet, sax), Kristian Jorgensen (violin), Palle Windfeldt (guitar), Kaare Munkholm (vibraphone, marimba), Jesper Lundgaard (bass).

NB:
TANGO DE COPENHAGUE is, we believe, the first Danish 'scented release'. A light touch at the cd itself should produce the smell of vintage oak ... and smells cannot (yet) be downloaded!


Senora de Buffa is a beautiful, moving milonga that hints at Piazzolla's later works but also points back to the revolutionary mid-fifties. Lundgaard's bass sets the stage (appropriately) and Sveidahl's bass clarinet eases in, with a contrary motif, followed by Windfeldt's guitar, Jorgensen's violin and the vibes/marimba of composer Munkholm. At one point Sveidahl switches to soprano, somehow the mano derecha of Piazzolla's bandoneón. Angelic.
La caza chases down the history of tango boliches, shark fishing and the death of angels in Punta del Este, expressed in an energetic violin solo by Kristian Jorgensen
Miloncólico by Windfeld is as heartbreaking a milonga as Piazzolla ever wrote, with Sveidahl's soprano at its most expressive. Impressive. Tristezas de los cinco.
Tango cromático by Jorgensen/Munkholm seems akin to the music of Piazzolla's busy Italian period in the mid-seventies, a fast introduction that eventually goes into a ballad section. Like in so many of the pieces, Munkholm's vibes and marimba bring back fond memories of the collaboration of Piazzolla and Gary Burton in the mid-eighties.
Senor Hansen is yet another piece by Munkholm, a portrait carved in music, moving graciously through various apposite segments, where the solo spotlights cast shadows like in a furrowed face.
Hora 19:00 by Sveidahl somehow seems to capture the listener between the small hand and the big hand of a clock in reverse. Easily the most challenging piece of the set, it juxtaposes various Piazzollean tango-elements in a most original and uncanny way.
Pampas by Windfeldt should take us out of the big city, más allá de la frontera, and into the vast plains of the interior, rural Argentina. The guitar of the composer opens what turns out to be nothing out of the folkloristic, but a beautiful, mournful ballad that will go over well in the big city, en las afueras and elsewhere.
El marinero by Windfeldt brings to mind 'el marinero' Osvaldo Montes, the great bandoneón-player.
Valsecito also by Windfeldt closes the proceedings with some virtuoso interplay between Lundgaard and Munkholm valseando gracefully and vigorously and showcasing a great solo by bass-virtuoso Lundgaard, which I'm sure, in his heart, he has dedicated to Piazzolla's main bassist for decades, Kicho Diaz, whom he caught live in concert in the late seventies in Buenos Aires.
ERLING KRONER
Copenhague July 2006

muzycy:
Henrik Sveidahl - reeds
Kristian Jorgensen - violin
Palle Windfeldt - guitar
Kaare Munkholm - vibes, marimba
Jesper Lundgaard - drums

utwory:
1. Senora de Buffa
2. La Caza
3. Miloncolico
4. Tango Cromatico
5. senor Hansen
6. Hora 19.00
7. Pampas
8. El Marinero
9. Valsecito

wydano: 2006-10
nagrano: 2006
more info: www.sundance.dk
more info2: www.tangoorkestret.dk