Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music".
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Aníbal Carmelo Troilo, also known as Pichuco, was an Argentine tango musician.
Tanghetto is an Argentinian neotango and electronic tango music project created and led by musician and producer Max Masri. It won the Gardel Award and was nominated five times to the Latin Grammy Awards. It's based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Emigrante (electrotango) is the debut album by Buenos Aires-based neo-tango band Tanghetto. The album was released in 2003, reaching gold sales in early 2005 and soon became platinum and double platinum. In 2004 Emigrante (electrotango) was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award.
Hybrid Tango was a side project by the members of Buenos Aires–based electronic neo-tango band Tanghetto. Retroactively it was considered a Tanghetto album and some of the songs released in this album became regulars in Tanghetto's live setlists.
Tangophobia Vol. 1: Contemporary Sounds of Buenos Aires is a compilation CD released by Argentine independent label Constitution Music. It contains tracks from different neo-tango and electronic artists from Buenos Aires, including NeoShaft, B.A. Jam, Hybrid Tango and Tanghetto.
Otros Aires is an Argentine 21st-century tango music group founded in 2003 in Barcelona by Argentine musician and architect Miguel Di Genova.
Mar dulce is an album by the Argentine/Uruguayan tango fusion band, Bajofondo.
El Miedo a la Libertad is the second studio by Buenos Aires–based electronic neo-tango band Tanghetto, or the third, considering that their side project Hybrid Tango (2004) is in fact part of their official discography, as well as part of their regular live repertoire. The album was released in March 2008.
Buenos Aires Remixed is a remix album from the Argentine neotango band Tanghetto. The album includes 12 remixes of older songs from the band in a house / progressive mood. However, the most remarkable feature of this album are the two covers especially recorded by the band to be part of this album: Depeche Mode's classic from 1990, Enjoy the Silence and New Order's 1983 "Blue Monday".
Miguel Angel Varvello is an Argentinian musician who plays and teaches the bandoneon.
Tangocrisis, previously known as 020 is an Argentine rock / pop / fusion band from Buenos Aires, and one of very few to introduce tango elements in a rock context. The project was conceived as 020 in early 1999 by producer and composer Max Masri and composer and guitarist Diego S. Velázquez..
Enrique Mario Francini was an Argentine tango orchestra director, composer and violinist who played in various tango ensembles including the Orquesta Francini-Pontier and Ástor Piazzolla's Octeto Buenos Aires.
Más Allá del Sur is Argentine electrotango band Tanghetto's third studio album. The album was released in November 2009.
Juan Pablo Jofre is a Grammy nominated Argentinian musician, composer, and arranger. He plays the bandoneon.
Vivo is the first of two studio albums released by Argentine electrotango band Tanghetto. It was recorded during the El Miedo a la Libertad and Más Allá del Sur tours from 2007 through 2010, in different cities in South America, North America and Europe.
Pagina de Buenos Aires is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and vocalist Fernando Otero recorded in 2007 and released in 2008 on the Nonesuch label.
Incidental Tango is Argentine electrotango band Tanghetto's fifth studio album. The album was released in December 2012.
Tangos is a studio album by Panamanian musician Rubén Blades, it was released on June 24, 2014, through Sunnyside Records. The album consists of eleven new versions of compositions by Blades in the style of tango, it features produccion and arrangements by Argentine musician Carlos Franzetti and the participation of Leopoldo Federico's orquestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
