2024-05-04 03:01:00
Everyone talks about Julio. But Francisco de Caro, one of his eleven brothers, was also a genius. Not only was he an excellent pianist, a faithful exponent of the so-called tango romanza, but also the existence of beautiful pieces of the genre. Among them, “Loca bohemia”, “Luciérnaga”, “Blue Dream” and “Black Flowers”. And here come the members of the female choral quartet Flores Negras, who were born when the previous millennium collapsed and there was no setback that could wither them. “It is true that there were times of impasses, sometimes for reasons in personal lives, others because a personal artistic project occupied the energy of one of us more intensely, but the interesting thing is that today we can read time in perspective because “The group went through all those situations and we always met again,” says the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bonardiin the throes of a new concert, to happen the Sunday, May 5 at 8:30 p.m., at Café Berlin (Avenida San Martín 6656).
There, Flores Negras will return to themes of damn tango –last album to date- and also will debut new pieces seconded by Edgardo Acuña on guitar, Maxi Votta on percussion and Gerardo Demónaco on double bass. Among the new releases, several by Astor Piazzolla that will be part of his next album. In particular, the intrepid voice ensemble version of “Ballad for a crazy”. “The decision to move forward with such an emblematic theme, so well known worldwide and with so many wonderful interpretations, among them by very admired artists, was to encourage us to take on a challenge,” says Bonardi, and gives way to the words Laura Esses, the contralto: “We felt that we had the possibility of offering a very different version and we were able to do it hand in hand with the arrangement that Diego Vila wrote for us, which allowed us to display the deep emotion that the interpretation of this tango awakens in us. Even the repercussions it had surpassed what we could imagine. In short, it will be part of this recital that we foresee as a musical party.”
A “farewell” party, moreover, because as a result of “they must have done something”, a tour of europe which will begin on May 18 at the Matrix Theater in Rotterdam, will continue in Brussels, for the “International Tango Festival” in Chiclana de la Frontera in Cádiz, Seville, Barcelona and Madrid. “The expectations are the same as always: to share our music with the world, and to make ourselves known with this format to female voices that we love, since we are the only female tango quartet, and we have a wonderful repertoire and arrangements,” he flourishes. the soprano Florencia García Casabal.
“Tango is a universal language that unites and excites, that invites and gives itself, it belongs to everyone, it has no borders, and that happened to us since our first tour back in 1998 in Portugal, going through every trip and without exceptions,” the other one folds mezzo-soprano of the quartet, Alejandra Cañonialso remembering that on one of the trips the group was received by Jacqueline Pons, the host who knew how to welcome Roberto Goyeneche, Mercedes Sosa, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Jairo, Piazzolla and Eduardo Falú, among others, into her home in Paris, among others. .
Aesthetically, Flores Negras remains firm in its purpose of add a different sound to citizen music, of course based on female voices in leading roles that seek to “say again” texts and poems by great lyricists from Buenos Aires. “We are in line with what Buenos Aires 8, the Argentine Vocal Group and Argentine Popular Musicians were, in other times,” they say in unison.
-What tempted you about Francisco De Caro’s tango for the group to be called that?
Alejandra Cañoni: -That something of the delicacy of a flower – which is usually associated with the feminine – and the strength of the urban rhythm were in his notes, without a doubt. Because in them something of the River Plate melancholy is mixed, which characterizes us, the sadness for what is gone, and the elegance that can be associated with the color black, which is used both for mourning and for a very special occasion.