Aires Tango - Poemas (1999)

Artista: Aires Tango

Álbum: Poemas
Año: 1999
Género: Tango / Latin Jazz Fusión
Duración: 54:05
Nacionalidad: Italia / Argentina

Lista de Temas:
01. La Luna
02. Ajedrez
03. La Poesia
04. El Tango
05. El Limón
06. La Luz
07. L'amico di Cordoba
08. El Sueno
09. Voces
10. El Gato
11. Volver

Alineación:
- Girotto Javier / sax, clarinet
- Gwis Alessandro / piano
- Siniscalco Marco / bass
- Rabbia Michele / percussion
- Servillo Peppe / vocals
- Di Bonaventura Daniele / accordion

Y llega el viernes y siempre les quiero dejar varias cositas, vamos a empezar con otro disco de esta banda, ahora vamos con "Poemas", tercer disco de Aires Tango, toma como ispiración la poesía creativa de los grandes autores latinoamericanos como Borges, Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Cardenal, Samuel Feijoo, Carlos Gardel y Alfredo Le Pera en un matrimonio entre la música y las letras, donde la intensidad del tango apasionado combina la libertad creativa de la improvisación jazzística. En este caso la poesía es el hilo conductor por donde pasa la música.

Born in Cordoba, Argentina, saxophonist and composer Xavier Girotto has been on top of Italian and European jazz for many years. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Orhcestre National de Jazz de Paris. In 1994 he founded his own quartet Aires Tango whose "treated tango" – an amusing and passionate fusion of Argentinian tango and jazz improvisation - immediately became a big success in Italy. Aires Tango is regularly invited to perform at Italian jazz festivals and has played with guests such as Paolo Fresu, Gianni Coscia or Enrico Rava – high time to bring their music to the rest of Europe and beyond!

Un disco lleno de argumentos melódicos y armónicos con soluciones originales (por ejemplo, en la canción de "El Limón", de sabor tradicional, y en "Voces"). El disco se cierra con "Volver", clásico Carlos Gardel, en dúo soprano - bandoneón.

Cada canción está inspirada en una poesía de América del Sur, en un ritmo dinámico, muchas veces basado en el maravilloso trabajo de la percusión y la base en general, conduciendo los temas con grandes interpretaciones colectivas. Los ecos de Piazzolla son evidentes en algunas canciones, pero la originalidad del grupo es garantizada por la habilidad de los músicos, que saben cómo mezclar las maravillas del tango clásico con otros estilos musicales, siempre muy inspirado y con un flujo imparable de buenas ideas mexclado con mucho sentimiento.

En pocas palabras: una pequeña obra maestra. No se pierdan este disco.

The band has been founded in 1994 by argentine saxophonist and composer Javier Girotto. Melting his musical roots with the Jazz idiom he created a new form of improvisational expression. Aires Tango performs a repertoire of original compositions in continuous evolution, following the path of the great Astor Piazzolla and conjugating it with the improvisation forms peculiar to Jazz music. The musical origins and experience of every single member of the band function as a further source of inspiration and add up a new creative color.
In every live performance, Aires Tango always gets an amazing feedback from the audience, also because of the nature of their melodic approach, such lyrical and universal.
In ¡¥95 they have been featured on two different soundtracks: for the theatre play ¡§I Testimoni¡¨ with Alessandro Gassman and Giammarco Tognazzi, and in the movie ¡§Banditi¡¨ with Ben Gazzarra and Lumi Cavazos.
In ¡¥96 they recorded their first CD ¡§Malvinas¡¨ (from the argentinian denomination of the Falkland Islands).
In ¡¥97 they released their second CD titled ¡§Madres¡¨, recorded for BMG - Rca Victor. Keeping the same stylistic shape, they further progressed in their musical exploration using different timbres, such us a string quartet and the bass clarinet. Two composition featured guest accordion player Antonello Salis.
Between ¡¥96 and 2000 the band played in a variety of Jazz festivals, such as JVC Jazz Festival in Rome and in Turin, Koper Festival, Fano Jazz, Roma Jazz Festival, Atina Jazz, etc. Besides, they collaborated in live performances with many guests, such as Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava,GianniCoscia, Antonello Salis and Peppe Servillo.
Aires Tango¡¦s third CD (released in Spring ¡¥99) is titled ¡§Poemas¡¨ and it is dedicated to the great latin-american writers.
Their fourth CD, ¡§Cronologia del ¡¥900¡¨, has been released in Winter 2000.
Fifth CD (named ¡§Origenes¡¨), released in Fall 2001, is a journey through the whole work of the band, a sort of summary after 300 live concerts and more than 40 original compositions.
The music of Aires Tango can be called ¡§treated Tango¡¨, from the fusion of Tango melodies with Jazz improvisation. Starting from the lyrism and inspiration typical of argentinian Tango, they refuse its strictest traditional form and introduced the improvisational item; by doing this they achieved a great freedom of expression and join ideally together past and present.

Espero que les guste, lindo disco para terminar la semana...

Pueden escuchar el disco aquí: www.lastfm.es/music/Aires+Tango/Poemas