La Chicana: Canción llorada

La Chicana: Canción llorada

Gustavo Paglia, bandoneón
Hernán Paglia, contrabajo,bajo
Juan Balverde, fluta traversa
Acho, guitarra, guitarra portuguesa, balafón, voz., piano, charango, guitarrón, melódica, kalimba
Lola, voz.
Martín Cecconi, bandoneón
Diego Malaguarnera, violin
Frederico Tellechea, percussion
Manuel Onis, baja
Chango Spasiuk, accordeón
Adrián Fanela, contrabajo
Rodrigo de Mahieu, percussion, djembé
Juan Valverde, flauta traversa
Nicolás Capsitski, bandoneón
Patricio Cotella, contrabajo, baja
Pol Mieman, celesta
Lucas Furno, violin
Federico Tellechea, percussion
Martín Pavlovsky, piano
Alejandro De Raco, quemanchá
Daniel Torres, contrabajo
Luiz Carlos Borges, acordeones
Fernando do Ó, triangulo, a go go, caxixis, shakers, pandeiro
Titibgi Villeroy, epresario
La Chilinga, percusion
Ariel Prat, voz
Gustavo Battistessa, bandoneón
Carlos Corrales, bandoneón
Ramiro Gallo, violin
Pol Neiman, udu

La Chicanas CD „Tango Agazapado" was a big surprise not only for journalists for their fully accoustic new interpretation of the tango roots. The band from Buenos Aires was awarded in 2004 with the important Premio Gardel for the best album of the year in the category "Nuevo Tango".

La Chicana gives new life to the spirit of the tango of the suburbs that emerged with the emigrants arriving at the port of Buenos Aires with nothing in their pockets than their own courage and the will to find a new sense for their lives and an escape from the poverty of their homelands. Nowadays they don't arrive at the port anymore, but their struggle against human misery -omnipresent in La Chicana's original lyrics- lives on through their children and grandchildren. Everyday circumstances have varied during the last 100 years; but the typically tango-characters and topics invented for La Chicana's short-story-songs continue being most up-to-date: disappointment, decadence, regret, misfortune, endless love, impossible affairs, nostalgia...

La Chicana creates a new tango sound: far away from the grand orchestras they find themselves at home in an acoustic quintet and selected guest musicians. So their line up reminds more of a rockband than of a tango orchestra in its "typical" style. Their instrumentation exposes the ethical background from the beginnings of tango; that melting-pot-identity that characterizes Buenos Aires more than anything else; that tango that started to develop its form at the beginning of the 20th century is a fusion of Italian, Polish, Spanish, German and African traditions and cultures, and nowadays is the main reference of whole Argentina all over the world.

Canción Llorada

Their new CD "Canción Llorada" presents a selection of the best songs from their first two albums "Ayer hoy era mañana" and "Un giro extraño", like for example "La Foto del Escarabajo" with BBC World music Award Winner Chango Spasiuk. But there are also new compositions, unreleased versions of the bands favourite songs as well as some tango classics.