- country:Argentina
- style(s):Tango
- label:MANANA
- artist posted by:Les Oreilles Bleues
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Melingo is not crazy. That what makes his
improbable tangos possible, given shape by
craziness. Melingo is a person, of course.
He has survived himself, his infinite
personal journeys, to become a literary
character of flesh and blood.
Melingo is the legend of Melingo, the main
protagonist in a life sometimes too intense,
which had, inevitably, to lead to the tango.
To be Melingo, one must walk the streets
sniffing out poetry like a bloodhound. One
must dance like a whip and sing like a scar.
Melingo is major musician. He studied at a
Conservatoire but retains little of that
institution. He was - and always will be – a
furious adventurer, fevered, hallucinating. A
bohemian of Buenos Aires, so of the world.
We can call him Maestro because he has
achieved simplicity. Nothing more natural,
then, than the roaring fire of its tangos.
Santa Milonga pulverises the barriers
between the sacred and the profane. These
songs hold as much adoration as
irreverence. There is a truckload of
orthodoxy and tons of heresy. There’s
excess and beauty. Love and mockery.
Melingo enters the high places of River
Plate music without knocking. The gates
open as he passages for he has won
himself the right to play with the law of
tango. Pure tango, then : The wonderful
madness of Melingo.