Category Archives: Several arguements about music

Experiments in musicality. Three song tandas where each song is the same but performed by different orchestras.

["Just enough education to perform" was the title of the third album by Welsh band Stereophoincs] My position regarding the teaching of tango is the typical Irish response of “Well, if I was going to there, I wouldn’t be starting … Continue reading →

Which comes first: the music or the dance?

Maybe, just maybe, she’s as interested in the music as you are.

In response to Simba and Tangocommunter‘s recent posts. I’ve encountered among contemporary artists an almost consistent fear of structure. “Oh it’s so restrictive” they moan. To me this exposes their misunderstanding of the structures in question. They view structure as … Continue reading →

There are days that I have and address there that I don’t occupy. Some times I live there and others I’m just at home. But none of that is enough. You have to inhabit the music.

Of all the lists of neo-tango or alt-tango song suggestions I can’t remember one that I listened to1 that I jumped at going ‘that’s a tango!’. One example would be Maroon 5′s Secret I just don’t get the tango in … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →