Archive: webtips
08 Apr 2009
After a longer period it's time for a new surftip by the webmaster:
Fernando Miceli, tango singer and journalist from Argentina, started shorty to broadcast tango features in German for Berlin's webradio multicult2.0. Themed "Discover the tango inside you!" Fernando reports backgrounds of tango, legendary and new orchestras, decorated with a lot of music.
If you are connected to the internet via broadband, you might enjoy the broadcasts biweekly on Sundays from 18 - 19 hrs:
22 Jul 2007
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is nowadays well-known in the web as a source for information as well as Google or Yahoo. tango.info, Tobias Conradi's tango portal, is probably the largest link collection in the tango world.
What will occur, if Tobias Conradi established a Tango Wiki? Correct: probably the largest reference about Tango Argentino in the web - but only with your assistance. So: surf - register - edit!
17 Jun 2007
Filete porteño is not ment to be a Schnitzel from Buenos Aires but indicates the typical decorative painting, which as well as tango and lunfardo is connected to the cultur of the immigrants in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. This special form of art fileteado came to life in a bodywork located in Paseo Colon in ornamental paintings of carts. These decorations passed via lorries and busses to a lot of every day articles and influence still the artistically face of Buenos Aires.
The following links shall give an impulse to search the web for the Argentine culture, which consists not only of tango and steaks ;-)
Fileteados Cruz
Lucero Maturano
Alfredo Martinez
06 Apr 2007
Electrotango goes Graz! On 22 May 2007 Narcotango will perform at Orpheum Graz, complemented by a show dance of Pablo Villarraza & Dana Frígoli. The band of Carlos Libedinsky belongs to the leading exponents of tango electrónico in Argentina and follows the tradition of Gotan Project.
Pablo & Dana are nowadays one of the most important tango couples in Buenos Aires. They will present their teaching method TTC - Tango Tecnología Conceptual to the tangueras & tangueros in Graz during the weekend workshops right before the concert.
Awaiting this next major tango event in Graz we want to refer to the websites of the actors:
Narcotango
DNI Tango - Pablo Villarraza & Dana Frígoli
14 Mar 2007
Are you bored by hit parades? Do you think Hip-Hop is a pain in the neck and German "Schlager" unbearable? Do you lack time for operas, classical concerts and radio reports? Then here is the alternative on internet: La Radio de Tango de Buenos Aires. Tango, tango and again tango!
06 Mar 2007
The photographer Daniel Machado from Montevideo shows sensational collages of well-known Maestros del Tango on his website: Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Eduardo Cappussi & Mariana Flores and among others Pablo Villarraza & Dana Frigoli who will visit Graz for the first time in May.