This week, the Flower interprets El Flete, also quite often encountered by beginners [implausible, and I think my memory of this must be just wrong - there must have been some one class where it was played repeatedly over several weeks and I remembered it disproportionately. No- Maya has the answer in the Comments]. Now in stereo, as I've rearranged all the speaker wires.
The flower appreciates all the comments on last week's video and looks forward to your remarks on this one.
Next week, milonga.
Beginners get this?!
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed at the flower's ability to cleanly chose which instrument to interpret. Presumably if the flower had a partner flower they would also be in perfect sync as to which instrument to interpret?
(Although I suppose in theory with the correct placing of flowers and speakers it might be possible to get them interpetting different instruments in harmony!)
Mmmm, not sure D' Arienzo is the flower's favourite...
ReplyDeleteYeah, what's this about 'beginners' - well I suppose one would want to start them on the good stuff ;-) - this is one of the best tracks ever and the D'Arienzo version is superb (Ok, in my opinion).
It's possible, even likely, that my memory is Just Completely Wrong about this having been played over and over and over rather early in my tango experience and being ubiquitous. It could be that what I remember is something else with a similar melody or rhythmic pattern and the same set of intstruments - or just the eccentricity of a particular teacher. I do like it a lot. It might be that what we're seeing here is the flower's reaction to being between two speakers, but I don't know in what sense, if at all, the original recording was in stereo. So it may not actually matter which one it's closer to. Its threshold for reaction seems to be volume, and its interpretation can be influenced by adjusting that.
ReplyDeleteIts tragic when a plastic flower dances better then I do ....
ReplyDeleteGood rythmic walk the one the flower does to keep the tempo of D'Arienzo. I also remember this piece as a beginner's one, very often used by Paul and Michiko on their classes at "El Once", so much I always associate it with them. Thanks for the video.
ReplyDelete@maya, that would have to be the answer, I've taken a lot of classes with them.
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