The Score

Tango music is more than a “toon“. It is the score to the film of the dance. As we know a film score is more than incidental background music but is an integral part of the story panning out in front of you. On this basis the most valid criticism of dancing to electronic-tango is that by and large it says nothing and goes nowhere. Equally it can be said of the musician centric tango-nuevo of the seventies and eighties that it says too much and wanders all over the place.