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Pampas Circumstance
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Orlando Weekly, Pampas Circumstance >>
For those looking for some Argentinian music beyond Piazzolla (and yes, there is much of it), you could do worse than Chango Spasiuk. Spasiuk is an accordion player whose Ukrainian grandparents settled in a remote northeastern province of Argentina known as Misiones. The music of Misiones – chamamé – is definitely not the tango, certainly not the nuevo tango practiced by Piazzolla. Raucous and earthy, it's the sound of communal drinking and dancing, with brisk rhythms and rapturous melodies. Spasiuk brings a further twist to the folksy sound of chamamé – his Eastern European background (and accordion) pronounces itself in the same way that German polka found its way into Mexican conjunto music. If the improvisational elegance of tango nuevo could be correlated to big band jazz in Argentina's musical spectrum, the rough-and-tumble sound of chamamé is its country blues and Spasiuk is one fine roadhouse player. 02/03/05 >> go there
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