Various Artists - Tangorama 1This panoramic survey of Argentine tangos shows the genre in all it's rich variety of moods and virtuosity. It salutes Angel Villoldo, the father of tango, whose El choclo ('The Corncob') is one of the most famous tangos of all time, and charts the music's evolution towards the romanticism and lush harmonies of Augustn Bardi. Improvisatory styles, syncopation and jazz harmonies were introduced by such great composers as Jos Pascual and Orlando Goi,

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I think i imagined i would be retired and living in a mansion by the age of 30

Best remembered for his successful baseball career as a rising young star with the Montreal Expos

Jaw Gems presents Heatweaver Remixes on Alpha Pup Records

Bisbâyé - pronounced 'bees-bow-yay' - translates as "what happens when there is nothing else one can do

"Hold on Me"

Benjamin Chénier takes on this chef d'oeuvre which celebrates France and Louis XIV with brilliant soloists and a strategy of spatialization in the Royal Chapel which recreates the splendid sound of 1660

PLUS 9 live songs by Lead Belly from 1940's radio broadcasts

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and - last but not least - his outstanding East Bound and Down from the first Smokey movie

from the 1991 premiere of Jonathan Harvey's Fantasia in Strasbourg to that of Betsy Jolas's Musique d'autres jours

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