Monday 21 September 2009
Gotan
A new tango course is advertised in Nice. 'This isn't that old kind of tango: this is "tango nuevo", and it's danced to music like the well-known Gotan Project...' Groan, and Gotan, that dull mechanical electro-beat with a bandoneon that can hardly play eight notes, and then without conviction or passion... Oops, put a glass of wine in my hand someone, and tell me to shut up.
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what's wrong with gotan. i'm happy to be educated. i don't understand why people don't like the new music - if you can explain how it is better than the "old" stuff maybe i will learn. at the moment i only see elitists and snoots who want to create an impenetrable "high table" for themselves.
i listen with an open mind...
Glad you enjoy Gotan, Anon!
But compared to the flexible shifting rhythms of the old music, and the extraordinary expressiveness of musicians like Anibal Troilo, I do find them rather dreary. But that's just me, and I did ask you to tell me to shut up...
@Anon - it matters hugely whether or not you're used to more complex music as the norm. Whether that's because you've always been used to it or because you get used to it - that doesn't matter. Ampster explains the process well here. If you are not used to more complex music, and your ears don't know their way around it, you won't be aware of what's going on, it's just a wall of sound, and will all sound rather similar.
If you want to hear what you didn't hear before, it's really necessary to have someone walk you through the basics of what's going on with examples, like in Joaquin Amenabar's DVD. I don't think it's possible to explain in text.
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