The passionate accordion player and composer Chango Spasiuk transforms the Chamame, a marginated rural 'dance' music, into an highly elaborated artform presented mainly in concert settings. His role can be compared to that of his compatriot Astor Piazzolla who added jazz elements and a classical...
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The passionate accordion player and composer Chango Spasiuk transforms the Chamame, a marginated rural 'dance' music, into an highly elaborated artform presented mainly in concert settings. His role can be compared to that of his compatriot Astor Piazzolla who added jazz elements and a classical note to the Tango.
Chango Spasiuk spent his childhood in a highly stimulating milieu. His childhood was centered around the carpenter's shop managed by Lucas, his violinist father, and Marcos, an uncle who sang. The singing duos playing in red earth patios, the unrelenting subtropical climate, a terrain of jungle and wide rivers, of labourers working with hoes and machetes on the yerba mate plantations - this is the world that underlies the powerful texture and mysticism of his music.
He plays with a memory of the informal rural polkas, performed by the whole familiy, that were such a special feature of his home in Misiones.
However, it is specifically with Chamame, that Spasiuk achieves his greatest interpretative and creative virtuosity, taking up the legacy of such well-known figures as Cocomarola, Abitbol, Montiel and Martinez Riera, amongst others. With absolute openess and lack of prejudice, he produces a rich mix of contemporary sound and tradition, where one can also find Schotis, rural Polkas, Rancheras and Rasguidos Dobles.
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