Monday, July 15, 2013

The D'Arienzo discography and TangoTunes.com

  

It's a good day for us tango enthusiasts! TangoTunes.com has released a lot of tracks from Juan D'Arienzo in amazing quality. The songs are digitalized from shellacs in collaboration with the Tango Digital Archive and the sound quality is just beautiful.

You can also go to Tanda of the Week to read about and enjoy a special discount promotion for these songs! And ofcourse check out all the D'Arienzo tandas on TOTW.

So far your best options for getting some of these songs in good quality have been the very rare Club Tango Argentino releases or albums like De Pura Cepa (Spotify link) or El Esquinazo (Spotify link). In some cases the differences in quality are minor and it's up to you which versions you prefer, although many of the CTA versions have a lot more record noise than the TangoTunes versions. Although the TangoTunes versions have gone through more remastering don't be afraid since the songs are not over filtered and the orchestras sound better than ever.

Nevertheless, I would like to especially highlight one song in particular: "Trago amargo" from 1939 with Alberto Echague. Unfortunately the short sample available on TangoTunes is not in full quality (low bitrate) and it fails to give a true example of the quality of the digitalization (which is available both in MPEG-4 and FLAC), but you can hear the clearness of the sound and that there is no record noise besides slight hiss, making this probably the best version available and at least the best one I've heard. I had to dig into my recycle bin to recover my older versions of the song to compare the quality further. I had the versions by Keith Elshaw (totango.net), Club Tango Argentino (CTA306), "Tango Bravo" (album), and also the collection "Su obra completa-Vol 06 de 48(1939-1940)". The last three suffer greatly from loud record noise, which just gets worse in the end of the song especially on the CTA version, and the last two also have very poor quality in general. The Keith Elshaw version has less record noise but unfortunately the way it is remastered hurts my soul. The "Trago Amargo" available on Spotify (and iTunes) from the The History of Tango / El Rey del Compas / Recordings 1954 - 1955, Vol. 7 album (which oddly enough includes actually the 1939 version of the song) also has similar record noise to the CTA version.


I've made a printable PDF file of the complete D'Arienzo discography between 1935-1939 with links to the songs available on TangoTunes.com as well as links to www.tango.info where you can find more information about the songs. Below are the songs from 1935-1939 available on TangoTunes so far. Also more shellac digitalizations are available and you can check them here.

Penas de amor vals -
1935-08-12
info TangoTunes
Tinta verde tango -
1935-08-12
info TangoTunes
Francia vals -
1935-10-03
info TangoTunes
Re Fa Si tango -
1935-10-03
info TangoTunes
Sábado inglés tango -
1935-11-18
info TangoTunes
Joaquina tango -
1935-12-12
info TangoTunes
Pabellón de las rosas vals -
1935-12-12
info TangoTunes
Nueve de julio tango -
1935-12-31
info TangoTunes
Orillas del plata vals -
1935-12-31
info TangoTunes
La guitarrita tango -
1936-01-14
info TangoTunes
Silueta porteña milonga Walter Cabral
1936-01-14
info TangoTunes
El flete tango -
1936-04-03
info TangoTunes
Un placer vals Walter Cabral
1936-04-03
info TangoTunes
Lorenzo tango -
1936-05-08
info TangoTunes
Tu olvido vals Walter Cabral
1936-05-08
info TangoTunes
Inolvidable vals -
1936-08-05
info TangoTunes
Don Juan tango -
1936-09-29
info TangoTunes
Lágrimas y sonrisas vals -
1936-09-29
info TangoTunes
Comme il faut tango -
1936-10-27
info TangoTunes
Una lágrima vals -
1936-10-27
info TangoTunes
Ataniche tango -
1936-11-27
info TangoTunes
Corazón de artista vals -
1936-11-27
info TangoTunes
La viruta tango -
1936-12-30
info TangoTunes
Visión celeste vals -
1936-12-30
info TangoTunes
Alma dolorida vals -
1937-03-05
info TangoTunes
Mentías vals -
1937-04-01
info TangoTunes
Homero tango -
1937-04-27
info TangoTunes
La puñalada milonga -
1937-04-27
info TangoTunes
Valsecito de antes vals -
1937-08-31
info TangoTunes
El caburé tango -
1937-09-22
info TangoTunes
Milonga, vieja milonga milonga -
1937-09-22
info TangoTunes
El cencerro tango -
1937-12-09
info TangoTunes
Gallo ciego tango -
1937-12-09
info TangoTunes
El africano tango -
1937-12-14
info TangoTunes
La cumparsita tango -
1937-12-14
info TangoTunes
La morocha tango -
1937-12-21
info TangoTunes
El esquinazo milonga -
1938-01-04
info TangoTunes
Indiferencia tango Alberto Echagüe
1938-01-04
info TangoTunes
Unión Cívica tango -
1938-01-07
info TangoTunes
La mariposa tango -
1938-03-23
info TangoTunes
El aeroplano vals -
1938-04-12
info TangoTunes
El horizonte tango -
1938-04-12
info TangoTunes
Trago amargo tango Alberto Echagüe
1939-12-22
info TangoTunes

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