[Tango-L] MILONGA... THE ORPHAN DANCE

[Jean-Pierre Sighe]

... "The umbilical cord cannot be severed without generating distortion and 
misunderstanding. The nurturing influence of Candombe must be revisited, 
re-actualized, to keep Tango evolving and generating into something 
unimaginable at the moment. Perhaps, we would then see the so-called Nuevo 
Tango (in its musical designation) FINALLY enriched, so it can emerge out of 
the rhythmic cul-de-sac in which it momentarily finds itself. I refer to the 
very monotonous rhythm that almost ALL of the Nuevo Tango pieces repeat; 
that is the obvious display of the bankrupt conception, coming from a place 
of a poor rhythmic ability."...


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Tangamente,

Jean-Pierre Sighé

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