Latest Pugliese Podcast Episodes

Women in Tango

Tango Club - May 09, 2017 23:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In today’s episode we talked about women. Women as a genre and as source of inspiration of so many beautiful pieces of art made with music. Tango, as we know, is music created a hundred + years ago, when the societies were different. The role of women was different too and there are also common p...

Tango Poets: Catulo Castillo

Tango Club - May 02, 2017 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In today’s episode we talked about Catulo Castillo, one of the great creators that Tango gave. We discussed in earlier episodes, the history of tango, the lyrics of tango and the earlier composers like Angel Villoldo, Pascual Contursi, Cadicamo, Homero Manzi and Santos Discepolo. Cátulo Castillo...

The father of Tango

Tango Club - April 26, 2017 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
I bet you know El Choclo, probably one of the most popular tangos along with La Cumparsita. We shared the story of its creator Angel Villoldo, a pioneer. He bears the title of Father of Tango, a somewhat exaggerated qualification because there were many circumstances which originated our music. B...

Carlos Gardel

Tango Club - April 17, 2017 23:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, we talked about an icon of tango, his name was Carlos Gardel. We could make hundreds of programs talking about him; he was tango's first superstar and still one of its most enduring performers. He died young in plane crash in 1935, and he was the first singer to adopt the tango a...

Black roots of Tango

Tango Club - April 12, 2017 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode we discussed the origins of this lovely music called tango. Few people know that the major influence of this music is actually African, and it evolved from the candombe. We talked about how this marginal music and culture surged from so many different sources like that afro Argent...

Centennial of "La Cumparsita"

Tango Club - March 13, 2017 23:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Iconic tango composed by an Argentinean and Uruguayan 100 years ago, and probably the most played and danced, in all tango shows and milongas around the world and it is a tradition to be the last song in these events. "La cumparsita" is a tango written at the end of 1916 by Gerardo Matos Rodrígu...

Gricel

Tango Club - March 06, 2017 23:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, we talked about a beautiful, sad love story, Gricel, the love story that was immortalized in a tango song. The most interesting of this, is that this story goes beyond this 3 minute tango written by Jose Maria Contursi, because it’s actually a real love story, and in real life ha...

Lyrics of Tango

Tango Club - March 03, 2017 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
If we talk of art in general and music in particular, and tango if we want to dig deeper, the lyrics have born many decades after the music of its hundred plus years of life. In this episode, we talked about the lyrics of the Tango. It was originally, in the 1880s, improvised instrumental music ...

Pilot: the history of Tango

Tango Club - February 20, 2017 22:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Tango is our passion. We dance it, we sing it, we feel it and we podcast about it. It has to do with immigration; it was born in the late 1800 and has a lot of nostalgia. Tango historians defined 6 eras of tango since it was born. Those are: The Origins (until 1895)La Guardia Vieja – the old gua...