Ed S Posted June 21, 2003 Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 Anyone ever check this guy out? I saw a Best of collection on the BN site and was intrigued. I know next to nothing about Tango, read some of the AMG comments and figured what the heck. I found a cheapo copy on Half.com and bagged it. Really really interesting. In fact, I'm digging the hell out of it. Most of the music was recorded between 1933 and 35 and was transferred from 78s. The sound is good to my ears, given the source material. It's typical of what I've heard insofar as transfers from 78s is concerned. The music is fabulous. I have no idea what he's singing about but it's intense, rhythmic, passionate.... and captivating. I think I've listened a half dozen times since it arrived yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted June 21, 2003 Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 Carlos Gardel has been among my favorite singers for more years than I can remember. I also don't understand what he is singing, but there is an honesty that grabs me in the very same way that Bessie Smith and Edith Piaf did when I first heard them (and couldn't understand the lyrics, BTW). When I am asked what it is that so attracted me to Bessie, I always cite Gardel as another example. And I neither tango nor shimmy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 22, 2003 Report Share Posted June 22, 2003 I discovered Carlos Gardel when his records reappeared on French radio in 1990 on the hundredth anniversarsy of his birth in Toulouse, southern France. Don't understand much about the songs but they really get to you. The late Egyptian singer Oum Kalsoum is another singer that grabs you. I was at her unique concert in Paris in 1967 and grooved with the audience (most of whom had flown into town from the Middle East). Her voice and the way she organised her songs reminded somehow of Mahalia Jackson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted June 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 I can't stop listening to this thing. It's 10 PM on a Sunday night and I'm spinning this as I write. My wife thinks I've gone over the edge. Help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 A friend of mine gave me a 2 cd "best of" a few months back. YEAH!!! I dig it too, Ed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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