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Alfredo de Angelis - Sus éxitos con Julio Martel vol.2

EMI 529103

Solid De Angelis from the 1940s with Julio Martel. Excellent transfers.

Track list

1. Rosicler
2. Altar sin luz
3. Melodía gris
4. Ivón
5. Aquí he venido a cantar
6. Rendido
7. Por eso grito
8. Yo también carrero fuí
9. Sigan tomando muchachos
10. Una carta
11. Entrá si miedo hermana
12. Yo también reí
13. Misa de once
14. Adiós muchachos
15. No te perdono más
16. La limosna
17. Esa noche vals
18. El santo de la espada milonga
19. El mayoral del tranvía milonga
20. Pa' que te voy a contar milonga

Enrique Rodríguez - Tangos con Armando Moreno

EMI 529105

Argentina's reply to El Bandoneón's Rodriguez / Moreno CD, EBCD-101. Compared to that disc we get the superb Llorar por una mujer but, having included Son cosas del bandoneón on an earlier release, Reliquias omit it here. Every track is danceable - wonderful stuff

Track list

1. Naranjo en flor
2. La vi llegar
3. Luna llena
4. A media luz
5. Tango argentino
6. Un tropezón
7. El tabernero
8. La gayola
9. Suerte loca
10. Llorar por una mujer
11. Como has cambiado pebeta
12. En la buena y en la mala
13. Mi piba
14. Adiós para siempre
15. Mirame de frente
16. Tu cielo y tu
17. Adiós muchachos
18. Tu intimo secreto
19. Y así nació este tango
20. Yo también tuve un cariño

Alfredo De Angelis - Ruíz-Martel-Dante: sus priméros vocalistas

EMI 529106

I've always hard a soft spot for De Angelis' very early recordings, particularly those with Floreal Ruíz, so I'm especially pleased by this disc which gathers all eight cuts together for the first time on a single CD. Also presented are other lovely early sides from Julio Martel and Carlos Dante including the very first side De Angelis ever cut, Que Buena Es, recorded with Julio Martel on 23/7/1943. The "B" side of that '78 was Floreal Ruíz's Marioneta. Of the other tracks with Ruíz the melodramatic Como se muere de amor (How One Dies Of Love), with its spoken introduction, and in particular Déjame así (Let Me Be) are superb.

Track list

1. Marioneta
2. Cero al as
3. Dejame así
4. Mi novia de ayer vals
5. La guitarrera milonga
6. Madre
7. Como se muere de amor
8. Bajo el Cono azul
9. Ya se que siguen hablando
10. Buenos Aires de ayer milonga
11. Que buena es
12. Va llegando gente al baile
13. Acordes porteños
14. La mañana milonga
15. Melenita de oro
16. No me importa su amor
17. Cuando tu me quieras
18. Cruz de palo
19. El tropero del amor
20. El vals de nochebuena vals

Cantan:

Floreal Ruíz (1 al 8); Julio Martel (9 al 14); Carlos Dante (15 al 20)

Osvaldo Pugliese - Sus cantores de los '50: Vidal, Cobos y Montero

EMI 529108

This disc presents Pugliese's singers of the 1950s: Jorge Vidal, whom we know from one of the very early El Bandoneón releases (EBCD 5), as well as the less known Juan Carlos Cobos and Miguel Montero, generally known only for his great hit Antiguo Reloj de Cobre. The bulk of the work of these last two singers will be reaching the public for the first time, even in Argentina. Montero in particular is a magnificent singer and the interpretations presented here are sure to find a firm place in the public's affections, particularly Acquaforte.

Turning back to Juan Carlos Cobos we find a singer who has been largely forgotten. Cobos is possessed of an extraordinary pianissimo which draws you into his performances, but when he finally erupts his bass-baritone voice lacks the outright power of the singers with whom history has bracketed him. I found myself wondering how Cobos would have sounded with the Pugliese orchestra of the 1940s; in the present company he can sound a little underpowered, but this is music that grows on you.

Looking over the disc as a whole, then, it presents much new material to us, but it's one of life's strange quirks that the great El Bandoneón Pugliese/Vidal disc, which has only ten tracks, has a completeness about it which somehow makes it more satisfying. Think of this as the same cd with bonus tracks and you'll approcah it in the right frame of mind.

Track list

1. Puente Alsina
2. La cieguita
3. Testamento de arrabal
4. Ventanita de arrabal
5. Vieja recova
6. Porque canto el tango
7. Barra querida
8. Un baile a beneficio milonga
9. Milonguera
10. Olvidao
11. Es preciso que te vayas
12. Picaneao
13. No es más que yo
14. Te aconsejo que me olvides
15. Antiguo reloj de cobre
16. Que te pasa Buenos Aires
17. Cacha viaje
18. Gurisa
19. Acquaforte
20. Dicha pasada

Cantan:

Jorge Vidal (1 al 8); Juan Carlos Cobos (9 al 14); Miguel Montero (15 al 20)

Alfredo De Angelis - Sus éxitos con Carlos Dante

EMI 529109

This is actually the second volume of Carlos Dante with De Angelis on Reliquias. Solid 1940s De Angelis which collectors, DJs and De Angelis fans will snap up immediately.

Track list

1. La brisa
2. Mocosita
3. Carnaval
4. Soy un arlequín
5. Mano a mano
6. Lunes
7. En la noche de tus ojos
8. Para que te quiero tanto
9. Con alma de tango
10. Que lindo es enamorarse
11. Vieja luna
12. Para mi lo mismo da
13. Sirva otra copa
14. Así es Ninón
15. Alelí
16. Con la otra
17. Sentencia
18. Justicia criolla
19. Allá en el bajo
20. Ilusión azul vals

Pedro Láurenz - Creaciones inolvidables con Podestá y Bermudez

EMI 529110

The magnificently inventive Pedro Láurenz has been very difficult to find; this CD is only the fourth ever to be released, and one of the first two (on Disco Latina) has already been deleted! The El Bandoneón disc (EBCD-82) gave us an excellent overview of his oeuvre with both instrumentals and vocal numbers; this disc concentrates on the vocalists Alberto Podestá and Carlos Bermudez. This is because Láurenz only signed to the Odeón label in 1943 but, whatever the reason, it means that the two discs have very little overlap and compliment one another very nicely.

With Láurenz Podestá sounds far more refined than he does with Di Sarli or even Caló and his interpretations presented here such as Alma de Bohemio, Recien and Que Nunca Me Falta are amongst his very finest work.

Carlos Bermudez is another fine vocalist with a sensitive, refined and romantic style well suited to Láurenz. The fact that he was a relatively minor vocalist in the Buenos Aires of the 1940s reminds one of the musical depth that the city enjoyed at that time. His voice lacks the resonance of Podestá but what little he lacks on technical side he more than makes up for in his interpretations. Here he transforms the simple lyric of Lleuve Otra Vez (It’s Raining Again) into a masterpiece and he is never less than moving in any of these performances.

The recordings presented on this disc may lack the sheer drive of Láurenz’ earliest recordings, which is nothing more than the fashion of the time as the D’Arienzo revolution was assimilated and tempi began to fall back, but in terms of the quality and invention that were Láurenz’ hallmarks it lacks for nothing. This is a superb CD.

Track list

1. Alma de bohemio
2. Garúa
3. Recién
4. Que nunca me falte
5. Patria mía
6. Yo quiero cantar un tango
7. Como el hornero
8. Todo
9. Muchachos mi último tango
10. Paisaje vals
11. Yo soy de San Telmo milonga
12. Maldonado milonga
13. El criollito oriental milonga
14. Más solo que nunca
15. Me están sobrando las penas
16. Nada más que un corazón
17. Llueve otra vez Tango canción
18. La madrugada
19. Temblando vals
20. Milonga de mis amores milonga

Cantan:

Alberto Podestá (1 al 13); Carlos Bermudez (14 al 19)

Rodolfo Biagi - Sus éxitos con Acuña, Lago y Amor

EMI 529111

This disc, the fifth Biagi disc on Reliquias, heavily features Carlos Acuña, who gets twelve tracks here, with four more each from Alberto Lago and Alberto Amor. Yo tengo un puñal is another brilliant Biagi arrangement with delightful interplay amongst the bandoneons. My favourite tracks though are those with Alberto Amor: Lisón, a very unusual arrangement, Como el hornero and in particular Adiós pampa mía, to which Biagi imparts all his rhythmic gifts without ever losing sight of the melody. A good disc, although other Biagi albums will claim your attention first

Track list

1. Uno
2. A la luz del candil
3. Barrio reo
4. Lonjazos
5. Yo tengo un puñal
6. Canción de rango
7. Adiós te vas
8. Tu voz
9. Sosiego en la noche
10. A suerte y verdad
11. Soy del 90
12. Sueño de juventud vals
13. Arrebato
14. Te odio
15. Metido
16. No puede ser
17. Lisón
18. Mis amores de ayer
19. Como el hornero
20. Adiós pampa mía

Cantan:

Carlos Acuña (1 al 12); Alberto Lago (13 al 16); Alberto Amor (17 al 20)

Osvaldo Pugliese - Sus éxitos con Alberto Morán vol.2

EMI 529112

Massively popular with the public, especially the ladies, Morán is never short on drama. This disc has all the power of the first volume; tracks such as No Quiero Perderte (I Don’t Want To Lose You) - Morán’s own lyric - will leave you every bit as limp in your seat as you have come to expect. Morán also covers material which had already become identified with other vocalists: Campos’s Que Nunca Me Falta, Castillo’s La Última Copa, Vargas’s Ahora No Me Conoces.

Reliquias also include Porque and El Mareo, the only tracks sung a duo with both Chanel and Morán, which were previously missing from their catalogue.

Morán's most famous and important hits are all on volume 1 but this does not in the least detract from the quality of this disc.

Track list

1. La última copa
2. Que nunca me falte
3. Ahora no me conocés
4. Llevatelo todo
5. No quiero perderte
6. Quiero verte una vez más
7. Llámame
8. Porque no te tengo más
9. El mareo
10. Dejame en paz
11. Dos ojos tristes
12. Hoy al recordarla
13. Cafetín
14. Desilusión
15. En secreto
16. Manos adoradas vals
17. Por qué ?
18. Por qué no has venido?
19. La noche que me esperes vals
20. Dos que se aman vals

Sexteto Mayor - Tangos para exignetes

EMI 529113

Track list

1. Recuerdo
2. La cachila
3. Amurado
4. Taconeando
5. Mal de amores
6. Silbando
7. Quejas de bandoneón
8. Inspiración
9. Canaro en París
10. Halcón negro
11. Orgullo criollo
12. Hotel Victoria
13. Caminito
14. Uno
15. Nostalgias
16. La casita de mis viejos
17. A media luz
18. El choclo
19. Tecleando
20. La cumparsita

Quinteto Pirincho - Tangos del tiempo viejo vol.2

EMI 529114

Second volume of Reliquias' reissue's of the Quinteto Pirincho's 1950's recordings.

Track list

1. La payanca
2. El pollo Ricardo
3. Criolla linda
4. El triunfo
5. Buen amigo
6. Don Goyo
7. El pollito
8. El porteñito
9. Boedo
10. Tana linda
11. Mala junta
12. Zorro gris
13. Marianito
14. El talar
15. Derecho viejo
16. El pardo Cejas
17. Recordando el 900
18. Joaquina
19. El apache argentino
20. El irresistible

Florindo Sassone - Bien milonguero vol.2

EMI 529128

Second volume of Sassone's late instrumentals. See the review for the first volume.

Track list

1. Fuegos artificiales
2. El chamuyo
3. La viruta
4. Cuando llora la milonga
5. Duelo criollo
6. El llorón
7. A media luz
8. Organito de la tarde
9. El pañuelito
10. Yira yira
11. Derecho viejo
12. Una noche de garufa
13. La cumparsita
14. Don Juan
15. Danzarín
16. El amanecer
17. A la gran muñeca
18. La tablada
19. El relámpago
20. Felicia

Mariano Mores - Tangos para bailar

EMI 529129

Track list

1. Rodriguez Peña
2. Sábado inglés
3. Felicia
4. El internado
5. El pollo Ricardo
6. El monito
7. La guitarra
8. Retintín
9. El africano
10. Derecho viejo
11. Alma de bohemio
12. El buey solo
13. Retirao
14. El pollito
15. Color de rosa
16. La viruta
17. Canaro
18. El chamuyo
19. Lorenzo
20. Don Esteban

Héctor Varela - Instrumentales incomparables

EMI 529131

Varela was D'Arienzo's first bandoneón for many years, and when he finally split he surprised everyone by creating his own style. He alloys the D'Arienzo compás to a more spacious feel reminiscent of Di Sarli. These arrangements from the mid 1960s are more International than Argentine in style.

Track list

1. La morocha
2. Ojos negros
3. El amanecer
4. La cachila
5. La viruta
6. El pollo Ricardo
7. El caburé
8. Buen amigo
9. Milongueando en el 40
10. Comme il faut
11. Retirao
12. El marne
13. La maleva
14. Guapeando
15. Pa' que se luzca la orquesta
16. Don Antonio
17. Palomita blanca vals
18. Pabellón de las rosas vals
19. La puñalada milonga
20. De vuelta y media milonga

Lucio Demare - Sus éxitos con Miranda, Berón y Quintana

EMI 529132

This disc, which presents three of Demare's vocalsits, enters a very sparsely populated field for there are only three other discs of Demare readily available: the superb El Bandoneón disc (EBCD 5) and two others on Reliquias - one in the previous set of releases, featuring Raúl Berón alone, and another of his early hits released more recently.

The disc opens with the great Malena, Demare’s own composition with a lyric by Homero Manzi. The same combination brings us the milonga Negra Maria, one of four milongas on this disc. The vocalist on both tracks is the brilliant Juan Carlos Miranda, an outstanding interpreter with a beautiful tone. Whilst Raul Berón achieved enormous fame and professional success, I find his cool, restrained tones better suited to his work with Miguel Caló; when it comes to the warmth of Demare’s orchestra, I find Miranda puts Caló in the shade; no mean feat, but one he accomplishes effortlessly. For me he is beyond doubt Demare’s best vocalist. Whatever happened to this wonderful man?

Miranda is also the vocalist for the previously unreleased No Te Apures Cara Blanca. With its combination of romance and melancholy this is another outstanding interpretation and, as with Malena, could hardly be more different to the other recording which has come down to us, that of Troilo with Fiorentino. Turning to the tracks with Horacio Quintana, Igual Que Un Bandoneón is another masterpiece. Torrente is also very good and Oriente, with its mock oriental arrangement, is also sure to find a place in play-lists.

The 78s are very clean and the transfers good but Reliquias have applied a bit of filtering to clean up the hiss, which reduces the emotional impact of the strings and the vocalist: turn up the treble and things suddenly sound much better. Only this prevents this disc from displacing the El Bandoneón Demare offering as the disc of choice.

Don’t get me wrong - these is a very good disc indeed, and I recommend it - DJs everywhere should snap it up immediately - but I think that the transfers on the old El Bandoneón disc have the edge.

Track list

1. Malena
2. Al compás del tango
3. No te apures carablanca
4. Negra María milonga
5. El naranjerito milonga
6. Baile de los Domingos
7. Vieja ribera
8. Me llaman el zorro
9. Se fué vals
10. Carnavalito milonga
11. Torrente
12. El aguacero
13. Nos encontramos al pasar
14. Igual que un bandoneón
15. Oriente
16. Solamente ella
17. Están sonando las ocho
18. Alhucema
19. Dos corazones vals
20. Señores yo soy del centro milonga

Cantan:

Juan Carlos Miranda (1 al 5); Raúl Berón (6 al 10); Horacio Quintana (11 al 20)

Roberto Firpo - Tangos y valsecitos

EMI 529133

This album of Firpo is split equally between tangos and valses. Many of the waltzes are taken at very slow tempos - a charming and original disc.

Track list

1. El apronte
2. El moro
3. Estoy penando
4. El bisturí
5. El tío soltero
6. Montevideo
7. Z Club
8. Lo que está bien, está bien
9. Va dar que hablar
10. El once
11. Siempre te recuerdo vals
12. Noches de frío vals
13. Hacia ti va mi alma vals
14. Ondas sonoras vals
15. Sueño florido vals
16. Recordando el pasado vals
17. Recordándote vals
18. Para las chicas vals
19. Entre los ceibos vals
20. Eternamente vals

Quinteto Pirincho - Tangos del teimpo viejo vol.3

EMI 529134

Third volume of Reliquias' reissue's of the Quinteto Pirincho's 1950's recordings.

Track list

1. Canaro
2. El once
3. El gavilán
4. El pillín
5. Pan nuestro
6. Pimienta
7. Nueve puntos
8. Jueves
9. Alfredo
10. Tierra negra
11. La barra fuerte
12. A la gran muñeca
13. La quebrada
14. La maleva
15. Charamusca
16. Los indios
17. El chamuyo
18. En el séptimo cielo
19. A su majestad
20. El favorito Tango milonga

Roberto Biagi - Sus éxitos con Hugo Duval, Carlos Heredia, Carlos Saavedra y Alberto Amor

EMI 529139

The second Baigi disc in this set of releases brings us Biagi’s later vocalists Hugo Duval, Carlos Heredia and Carlos Saavedra, with four tracks from Alberto Amor as filler. It's not a catchy title which should make you suspicious, but Reliquias have an ace up their sleeve: the stunning milonga Por La Huella, a classic Biagi milonga which has you feeling you’ve known it for ever.Despite this, and three more waltzes from Amor, this is not Biagi at his very best. A good disc then, but not your first choice for a Biagi disc unless you prefer the slower tempi of these later recordings.

Track list

1. Bailarina de tango
2. Estás llorando
3. Mi pecadora
4. La copa del olvido
5. Por tener un corazón
6. Serenata campera vals
7. Adoración vals
8. Caricias
9. Matala
10. Y volvemos a querernos
11. Sin palabras
12. Gracias
13. Mientras duerme la ciudad
14. Esta noche me emborracho
15. Margot
16. Por la huella milonga
17. Viento malo
18. Camino del Tucumán
19. Aroma de amor vals
20. Mañana por la mañana vals

Cantan:

Temas: Hugo Duval (1 al 6); Hugo Duval - Carlos Heredia (7); Carlos Heredia (8 al 10); Carlos Saavedra (11 al 16); Alberto Amor (17 al 20)

Miguel Montero - Sus más grandes creaciones

EMI 529430

Montero was vocalist with the Pugliese orchestra in the late 1950s. Later he took his string of hits and went solo; the recordings presented here are from this period.

Track list

1. Gurisa
2. Antiguo reloj de cobre
3. Cucusita
4. Calor de hogar
5. Sentimiento gaucho
6. De puro guapo
7. Alma de bohemio
8. Que falta que me haces
9. No nos veremos más
10. Como se pianta la vida
11. Como aquella princesa
12. Tinta roja
13. La abandoné y no sabía
14. Tristeza de la calle corrientes
15. Por las calles de la vida
16. Fuimos
17. Me están sobrando las penas
18. Que solo estoy
19. Domingo a la noche
20. Otra noche

Florindo Sassone - Bien milonguero vol.1

EMI 529431

These popular late instrumentals are very reminiscent of Di Sarli, although without his subtlety and depth. Very occasionally you will find yourself reminded of Fresedo. This might sound like a damning review, but I wish to God that teachers would use this instead of Di Sarli for teaching their intermediates

This disc and its companion volume provide the largest selection of late Sassone available.

Track list

1. Lágrimas
2. El choclo
3. La clavada
4. Tierrita
5. La guitarrita
6. El opio
7. La trilla
8. Como los nardos en flor
9. Papas calientes
10. Clavel del aire
11. Hotel Victoria
12. Tierra negra
13. Rawson
14. Retintín
15. Rodriguez Peña
16. Bar Exposición
17. Tomasito
18. Negro el 20
19. El morochito
20. Bahía Blanca

Quinteto Pirincho / Roberto Firpo - Las milongas más milongas

EMI 529433

A most unusual album: entirely milongas, or tango-milongas, split between just two orchestras: the 1950s incarnation of the Quinteto Pirincho and the quartet of Roberto Firpo. A popular disc.

Track list

1. La cara de la luna tango milonga
2. Corralera milonga
3. Arrabalera milonga
4. Se dice de mi milonga
5. Milonga del tiempo heróico milonga
6. Taquito militar milonga
7. La trampera milonga
8. El firulete milonga
9. Negro carbón milonga
10. Orillera milonga
11. Chamberguito de los gauchos milonga
12. La puñalada milonga
13. Organito de suburbio milonga
14. De mi arrabal milonga
15. Milonga orillera milonga
16. Me gusta bailar milonga
17. Vieja milonga milonga
18. Flor de suburbio milonga
19. El llorón Tango milonga
20. El esquinazo milonga

Temas 1 al 10 Quinteto Pirincho 11 al 20 Cuarteto Roberto Firpo