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With characteristic subtleness of phrase and use of silence, guitarist Roberto Aussel brings to life the music of fellow Argentinean Atahualpa Yupanqui on the 100th anniversary of this champion of folk music’s birth.

Born in 1954 in La Plata, Roberto began studying classical guitar from the age of 7 and went on to win first prizes at some of the world’s most prestigious competitions. He is known for his gift of being able to highlight a composer’s intention by his delicacy of phrase, across a range of diverse composers. He heard Atahualpa Yupanqui in his childhood and his music especially touched him. In Atahualpa’s music, Roberto heard the whistling of the wind, the silence between the mountains and the understanding of birdsong, his guitar vibrating as it related the suffering of the country folk, and rejoiced when performing a malambo from the Argentine Pampas. La Paloma Enamorada (The Dove in Love) is Roberto’s tribute to the music of a man which has raised such a profound feeling in him for many years.

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1423
CD Cut 14 - 'Lloran las Ramas del Viento'
Atuahalpa Yupanqui
Pub Not Spec
Aeon AECD 0864 , in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
Roberto Aussel - 'Atahualpa Yupanqui: La Paloma Enamorada'
3:04
(Gentle, subtle, spacious arrangement of piece that first turned Roberto on to Atahualpa's music)

Segue

1426
CD Cut 18 - 'Danza de la Paloma Enamorada'
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Pub Not Spec
Le Chant du Monde LDX 274750 CM 211( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: through Harmonia Mundi www.harmoniamundi.com )
Atahualpa Yupanqui - '30 Ans de Chansons'
2:28
(Uptempo waltz for Atahualpa's solo guitar, with subtle slides and string featherings)

1430
CD Cut 6 - 'La Pobrecita' (the Poor)
Atuahalpa Yupanqui
Pub Not Spec
Aeon AECD 0864 , in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
Roberto Aussel - 'Atahualpa Yupanqui: La Paloma Enamorada'
3:02
(Forceful waltz, with moving bass line and independent treble melody played on one guitar)

Segue

1433
CD Cut 12 - 'Basta Ya' (Enough, Already)
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Pub Not Spec
Le Chant du Monde LDX 274750 CM 211( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: through Harmonia Mundi www.harmoniamundi.com )
Atahualpa Yupanqui - '30 Ans de Chansons'
5:37
(Forceful guitar and voice in song that says - 'Enough Already! - that the Yankee tells us what to do.')

1440
CD Cut 11 - 'Say That You Love Me'
Loudon Wainwright
Pub Not Spec
Yep Roc ( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.yeproc.com )
Loudon Wainwright - 'Recovery'
3:27
(Mostly acoustic group with pounding drums and slide guitar in song that openly admits the smallness of his outlook - 'Say that you love me, I said it to you.')

Segue

1443
CD Cut 8 - 'Final Frontier'
Loudon Wainwright III
Snowden Music Inc. (ASCAP)
Concord/ Universal 7230301
( in Australia, though Universal
worldwide: www.concordrecords.com )
Loudon Wainwright Iii - 'Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film 'Knocked Up' '
3:45
(Dramatic minor key waltz that comments on the word love [without saying it] and the phenomenon of love

1448
CD Cut 7 - 'Les Ejes de Mi Carreta' (Milonga)
Atuahalpa Yupanqui, arr by Roberto Aussel
Pub Not Spec
Aeon AECD 0864 , in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
Roberto Aussel - 'Atahualpa Yupanqui: La Paloma Enamorada'
3:35
(Tenderly played milonga with moving 'habanera' bass line and treble melody)

Segue

1452
CD Cut 10 - 'Farrúca'
A. Castellon-Escudero
Pub not spec
Nimbus Records NI 5196 http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/index.html
Paco Peña and Eduardo Falú - 'Encuentro'
4:52
(Intense duet for the Spaniard and the Argentinean's classical guitars)

1458
CD CUT 1, 'La Humilde'
Cachilo Díaz
Pub Not Spec
Accords Croises AC125
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.accords-croises.com )
Magic Malik, Minino Garay, Jaime Torres - 'Altiplano'
one minute excerpt
( a quirky, syncopated Andean prance-dance, made even more quirky in this treatment. Jaime's charango with Minino's and Vanessa Garcia's percussion, plus pianist Federico Siciliano. No flute/no Malik on this cut. The dance form it employs is the chacarera.

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans