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Listen: https://soundcloud.com/juan-maria-solare/ausente
Ausente (Abstent) is an
atonal milonga. If Franz Liszt composed a "Bagatelle without tonality",
why not a milonga without tonality. This piece is placed somewhere between
classical music and new tango.
Moderator Louis Barabbas wrote about Ausente
for the BBC blog Fresh On The Net nr.
305 (19 November 2018), http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2018/11/faves305
"Described as 'somewhere between classical music and new
tango' the artists phrasing here is telling: "somewhere" rather than
"something". For in Juan Maria Solares Ausente (absent) we are certainly
transported. Each angular phrase jutting up like stone columns or distended
stalactites in a limey cave. The trickling thrust of its furtive intent feels
somehow elemental yet focused through an urban noir prism, drops of heavy water
in varying temperatures, some icicles and some steam, shards of smoky light
poking around slow moving fan blades and between the rusty teeth of ancient
window grills, monstrous warped shadows cast up from humble orphaned minutiae.
Music as beautiful and unsettling as it is hard to dance to."
The idea of dancing this piece was a surprise for me, since tango music
doesn't need to be danced to (you can
also just listen to it). But if you wonder how this tango would appear danced, imagine
it is not called "tango" but "contemporary ballet rooted in
tango" - and suddenly you find ways of dancing it... provided an
open-minded choreographer is on board! If someone wants to dance this music in
the style of the tango of 1920, they will have a hard time. It would be like
trying to dance Strawinsky's Le Sacre du
printemps as if it were the Blue
Danube Waltz.
Juan María Solare
http://www.JuanMariaSolare.com
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