Chicago Tango Week and ARTango Center Chicago presents......
Latin Grammy Nominee electrotango band Tanghetto live in Chicago on Thursday, 20 May 2010.
Event times:
Doors open at 7:30
Concert at 8:30
Milonga (Social dancing) from 10:30-2 AM
Prices: $20 online and $25 at the door
17 & up
Buy tickets online:
http://www.regonline.com/tanghettoStyles: tango / electrónica / jazz / world
Website:
http://www.tanghetto.com Official
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/tanghetto http://www.myspace.com/tanghettoacousticOfficial YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/TanghettoTVBuenos Aires based Argentine group formed in 2001. Their innovative sound is a mixture of modern and traditional tango with jazz, electronic and diverse South American influences. The band’s names is inspired in Argentine Diaspora, evoking “a little Argentina” in many Europeans cities.
The “Tanghetto sound” is unique; it's a fusion of diverse sources of inspiration, both contemporary and traditional, that unite with the bandoneon, the nostalgic and characteristic instrument of the traditional tango. Bandoneon takes the singer's role and is surrounded by diverse acoustic instruments and a sonic wall of synths and samplers.
The band was nominated twice for the Latin Grammy Awards and Gardel Award (the argentine equivalent to the Grammy Award).
The band debut album “Emigrante” reached platinum status in Argentina and was nominated “the best instrumental album” . Album “Hybrid Tango” renewed the sound of tango and was nominated as the best tango album.
Tanghetto played in more than 100 cities in 25 countries. Last time Tanghetto visited Chicago was in 2007 for Chicago Tango Week Festival (former Tango Joven).
Most video clips from Tanghetto’s DVD (released in 2006) were on MTV and others music TV stations.
In 2007Tanghetto recorded a BBC Unplugged in London.
TANGHETTO DISCOGRAPHY:
Emigrante (Electrotango)
Released December 2003
Debut album, platinum in Argentina and nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2004. Among tango people (dancers or not) and world music enthusiasts is considered a classic. Some notable songs are “Inmigrante”, “El Boulevard”, “Una Llamada” y “Emigrante”. This concept album tells how Argentina began
its history as a country of immigrants, becoming the opposite in recent times.
Hybrid Tango
Released December 2004
This album was nominated also for a
Its creators define it as "cosmopolitan tango". This side project from Tanghetto’s musicians is a fusion of tango with eclectic and diverse elements, such as jazz, electrónica, flamenco, candombe and other latin rhythms Latin Grammy Award, Includes “Barrio Sur”, “Mas de lo Mismo”, “El Deseo” and “Tangocrisis”.
Buenos Aires Remixed
Released October 2005
Live in Buenos Aires
Released July 2006
DVD (NTSC). Full concert (19songs) + videoclips.
El Miedo a la Libertad
Released on 10/02/2008. The album is a winner of the Premio Gardel 2009. Includes 12 songs, 9 of them originals (such as "Buscando Camorra", "El Arte de Amar") and a selection of covers in the band’s style (Eurhythmics’ “Sweet Dreams are Made of This”, a jazz/tango/reggae rendition of Sting’s “Englishman in New York and Hancock’s jazz standard “Cantaloupe Island”. Argentine guitarist Esteban Morgado plays in three songs.
Más Allá del Sur
Released on 26/11/2009 "
The album is a balance between listenable and danceable, acoustic and electronic. This is so far the closest approach to a pure tango language, but the band carries on its innovative quest. Includes “La Milonga”, “Tango Místico”, “Zita” (from Astor
Piazzolla).
