The name Gustavo Santaolalla keeps popping up on this blog - if it's not as producer for Café Tacuba, Juanes or Calle 13 then it's for his ground-breaking and Oscar-winning soundtracks (Babel, Brokeback Mountain, The Motorcycle Diaries ). But he also has his own band, the electronic tango collective Bajofondo Tango Club . Now shortened to Bajofondo , the mostly instrumental group gathered an ..
Awhile back my wife and I took a ballroom dance class, and I learned that I while I thought I had rhythm, I really didn't. My wife, on the other hand, is blessed with many talents such as music, rhythm, pitch, etc. However, patience is not one of them, so it was left to a grandmotherly figure in our class to help me get the cha-cha steps just right.Anyhow, we progressed to the tango, which wa...
The name Gustavo Santaolalla keeps popping up on this blog - if it's not as producer for Café Tacuba, Juanes or Calle 13 then it's for his ground-breaking and Oscar-winning soundtracks (Babel, Brokeback Mountain, The Motorcycle Diaries ). But he also has his own band, the electronic tango collective Bajofondo Tango Club . Now shortened to Bajofondo , the mostly instrumental group gathered an ..
Mark my words – the next wave of music to invade the global airwaves will be new-garde Latin. Not the tango and rhumba that your parents would cut a rug to in their town dancehall, no, but an updated version of Latin rhythms complemented perfectly with dance beats heavy enough for the best clubs [...]