Based in Sydney, Australia, the Tango Saloon is one of the many projects of multi-instrumentalist Julian Curwin. On The Tango Saloon, Curwin leads a 15 member band in a modern revision of tango and Ennio Morricone-style spaghetti western soundtrack. A wide range of of strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion pop up here and there throughout the album, and at times it even verges on electronic experimentation. Bits of free jazz get meddled with country-western and Cuban music as Curwin explores the depths of Tango. There's a lot to listen for if you pay attention, but The Tango Saloon also makes for nice, relaxing background music (well, except for a brief period of fragmented, dissonant chaos near the middle).
The Tango Saloon - The Tango Saloon (2006)
Buy the album here.
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