Sexteto Mayor – Den argentinska tangons "old guard"
Liksom jazzen i New Orleans, så föddes tangon i slutet av 1800-talet i hamnstaden Buenos Aires ljusskygga bordell och bar kvarter. Bland de nyanlända hungrande immigranterna från Frankrike, Italien, Spanien och Tyskland, som försökte söka lyckan i Argentina, kom tangon att representera deras önskningar för vad de hade och var de hade gått miste om. Med sitt passionerade, dekadenta, vemodiga, sensuella och glupskt otuktade poetiska uttryck utformades tangon till den längtansfulla tanken man kunde dansa till.
Sedan Sexteto Mayor bildades 1973, i legendens Carlos Gardels hem, av de två bandoneon spelande arrangörerna Jose Libertella och Luiz Stazo, har de tillhört det absoluta toppskiktet bland världens tangoensembler och idag räknas de definitivt som Argentinas främsta traditionella ensemble inom gengren.
Influerade av sextetformatet, som introducerades inom tangon av Julio De Caro 1924 med en sättning av två bandoneon, två violiner, bas och piano, presenterar dessa gentlemän, med ett rytmiskt och glimrande poetiska arrangemang, den klassiskt nostalgiska tangon från 1900-tales tre första årtionde som har sina rötter i Buenos Aires heta och hektiskt ångande urbana miljö. Under gästspelet här i Sverige ger Sexteto Mayor en konsert på Södra Teatern samt spelar till dans på Moriska Paviljongen.
Plats: Södra Teatern, Stockholm
Tid: 3 februari kl 19.30
Plats: Moriska Paviljongen, Malmö
Tid: 4 februari kl 21.00 – 03.00
Konserterna sker i ett samarbete mellan Re:Orient och Södra Teatern.
Line-up:
Horacio Romo, Bandonéon
Pablo Mainetti, Bandonéon
Fulvio Giraudo, Piano
Eduardo Walczak, Violin
Mario Abramovich Violin
Enrique Guerra, Kontrabas
Röster från pressen:
This ensemble is not only Sexteto Mayor by name (...), it achieves its greatness, class and outstanding musical identity by exploiting to the full all the possibilities its six instruments with their different characters have to offer – rhythm, vitality and melody spun delicately together. In this way, the inimitable impression of many sounds and tones blending together is created, as if six instruments were singing as one large choir – clear and pure."
Jazzthetik 01/02/11
"The Sexteto Mayor from Buenos Aires has never settled for the type of easily digestible tango that keeps the tourists happy. Even in difficult times, the sextet's musicians have persisted in fathoming the depths of the musical soul of Argentinean Tango. And this ethos has brought them decades of international success and fame, in more recent years in their home country of Argentinia, too, where their album Vida, Pasión y Tango has been awarded the Gardel de Oro for Tango (...)"
JAZZthing Nov.2010 – Jan. 2011
"... Using somewhat immodestly terms like the "Best", the "Greatest" or the "Superior Sextet" to describe them is fitting. To hear them is to experience almost physically this mix of serenity and passion, fire and poise, intellect and spirit. A fast-paced tutti whirl – hardly one bar in – leads to a vibrant rhythm pounded into the piano, underlined full-bellied and full-bodied by Enrique Guerra on the double bass, bandoneon tones floating and fluttering above, aerial and weightless..."
Badische Zeitung 12/2008
"... To finish off their jubilantly received concert in the Petrus Kirche, the Sexteto Mayor chose this melancholic but hopeful Tango. In fact, Piazolla's presence was strongly felt throughout the whole concert. But then, why shouldn't it be? After all, in 2003, 30 years after forming, it was for their album Homenaje a Piazzolla that the sextet won the Latin Grammy Award... For every piece they received wild applause, as if each piece were the last. And when it finally was the end, the whole audience rose to its feet for the (possibly – but oh who cares) best Tango Orchestra in the world."
Kieler Nachrichten 12/2008