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Astillero Tango from Buenos Aires
Drinks and live music after the debate 'Sending Money Home': forceful, vertiginous, breathtaking, raw yet sophisticated
Detailed programme of the 2 days event, including time schedule of shuttle bus
The sound of Astillero is forceful, vertiginous, breathtaking, raw yet sophisticated: a rollercoaster ride of throbbing accents modulating into earth-shattering pianissimos and beyond. Yet this wild sound is entirely hand-made, free of any gimmicks, 100% acoustic: the sound of just wood and strings, brought to searing life by an acute sense for translating the experience of 21st century urban life into new music, built on a solid traditional foundation of Buenos Aires' tango.
The orchestra, though featuring the typical instruments of a classic tango ensemble (two bandoneons, violin, piano, cello, double bass, and a singer) is a tango formation that has nothing to do with the 'tango' of our collective consciousness. Astillero proposes a completely new vision of tango, incisive and intense, rough and violent. The sounds of this group are the sounds of Buenos Aires today - the way they play their music reflects the incongruities and madness of this urban jungle; it kicks, breaks, hurts, jumps. Just as the world we live in.
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