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Title: Santa Milonga

Label: Manana

Cat No:MM425001
Format:CD

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”Santa Milonga” by Daniel Melingo is a Top of The World Choice in the June/July 2005 issue of Songlines. It is the first release on the new Manana label, created by Argentinian Eduardo Makaroff (guitarist with the acclaimed Gotan Project) to spotlight contemporary tango - not Gotan offshoots but the varied Tango artists and styles that have inspired and influenced them.

Daniel Melingo was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. He is a singer-composer who remains faithful to the traditional tango rhythms and instruments like the button accordion. But he adds a modern twist. He writes and sings about odd characters who walk the streets of his home city - in a street-wise lingo that only Argentines would understand. By all accounts he’s quite a character himself - and was a member of Argentinean rock band Los Abuelos de la Nada in the early '80s; made albums on US Polygram and the DBN label in the 90’s; and has appeared on many tango compilations.

Track Listing for Santa Milonga
1. Narigon - Melingo
2. Leonel el feo - Florencia Bonadeo / Melingo
3. Angurrienta – Florencia Bonadeo / Melingo
4. De todo y para dos – Luis Alposta / Melingo
5. Este cuore – Julian centeya / Melingo
6. Agarrese don Enrique – Melingo
7. Muleta de borracho – Florencia Bonadeo/ Melingo
8. Sin Luna – Melingo
9. Noche trasfigurada – Melingo
10. El extrano caso – Luis Alposta / Melingo
11. Che jeringa – melingo
12. La pebetacde chiclana – Carlos de le pua / Melingo
13. El garron – Tito Molina / Melingo
14. Ayer - Melingo

Reviews

Songlines - Sue Steward

The music is overwhelmingly post-Piazzolla, with melodramatic staccato rhythms…

HMV Choice - Phil Meadley

While Santa Milongo possesses unusual elements the album largely stays true to the tango's traditional ethos of dramatic violin, tapped rhythms, button accordion and impassioned vocals.

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