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Yo‐Yo Ma — Libertango
Album: Soul of the Tango - The Music of Astor Piazzolla
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Released: 1997
Length: 3:01
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(Instrumental)
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So excellent! Always makes me stop and listen... Always makes me want to see the fantastic, surreal movie "Waking Life" again, too... This song, I believe, is what the gals in the live orchestra heard jamming in the basement below the street are playing as the omniscient, roving point-of-view takes its first big panning swoon around at the undeniably living, breathing freaking reality that the film wants us looking through for awhile... In any case, I feel sure it's a Piazzola piece -- and it fits and transcends so perfectly on so many levels; yes! I simply MUST watch that again... I'm forever grateful for the celebration and expression of genius, Mr. Ma, RP, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and all involved in that seminal, prophetic, and unforgettable film!
16 years on the Playlist, Brilliant still and always a very pleasant surprise!
You know how you sometimes read something that isn't there?
At first glance it looked like "You Mama's Soul" - what an odd title for a cello track, lol
Could you call this waltzy-peppy?

Can you be peppy and dancing a waltz? 

Tango? Of course. I'm no fool. I'm an Idiot Wind.

Ha!
 Bleyfusz wrote:

Only, it's no such. It's called bandoneon.

Just among the plethora of things I discover on RP.
On the edge of increasing my rating on this fantastic performance.

Not than anyone gives a bandoneon.
I should get this CD.
First I've heard Yo-Yo Ma on this channel.  But the comments have been here for over 11 years.  

RP never ceases to amaze me.
Belmondo movie.
VOLUME UP!
 bankofandygray wrote:
Is it just me or does this music remind anyone else of the desert theme from Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap?
 
Nope, just you.
Is it just me or does this music remind anyone else of the desert theme from Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap?
One of my musical guilty pleasures.  Grace Jones' version of this.  
wheeeeeeeeeee!
Astor Piazzola , genio bonaerense con raices en nueva york
Wow, Led Zep and Tango in the same afternoon - only on RP {#Roflol}
beautiful
 Krakus wrote:
I love the accordion in this piece.

 
Only, it's no such. It's called bandoneon.
 Elcoco wrote:
El Libertango es del maestro Astor Piazzola. Compositor argentino.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Piazzolla

Radio Paradise, cada día mejor.

 
Sí...!
I love the accordion in this piece.
This song makes me crave a bottle of Bordeaux, a wheel of chabrion , and a loaf of French bread. 
 MsJudi wrote:
Damn, Bill, I'm having one of the worst nights of my life, after one of the worst weeks of my life, and you have me dancing in my chair. How you do dat, big boy? How? How?

 
Put the lamp shade back when you are done!
{#Sunny} 
Damn, Bill, I'm having one of the worst nights of my life, after one of the worst weeks of my life, and you have me dancing in my chair. How you do dat, big boy? How? How?
 mauflex wrote:
This song makes me cry... Godlike.
 
This song makes me cry... Painful.
The one and only Astor Piazzolla

Simply superb.
Take your time and learn about Piazzolla! You'll see, that Yo Yo's interpretation is a very good one!
Mama's got a squeezebox, she wears on her chest
When daddy gets home, he gets no rest...
This song makes me cry... Godlike.
Make it stop... I like Yo Yo... but not this
 EnglishRob wrote:
Ahhhh i knew i'd heard this one before - its used on Tower of Goo!
 
I love the Tower of Goo! - and feel bad for everyone who is missing out.  Hours of frustrating fun!
Reminds me of 12 Monkeys.

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Dante_Angelo wrote:
The soundtrack of "12..." has 'Suite Mar del Plata' (another Piazzolla's composition) as the one that opens the titles in the movie.
 
Sorry to correct you, but it is 'Suite Punta del Este', not 'Mar del Plata'. As Uruguayan, I feel in the obligation to correct this little confusion of "balneario".

 Stefen wrote:
Kinda different — even for RP.
 
I love the variety of RP

I mean... Bill!
Kinda different — even for RP.
How about the Grace Jones version of this song, Dave?
a faster copy!
 
diegotz wrote:
Vamos Astor

Gotan Project is, let's say... a copy to this...
 


Ahhhh i knew i'd heard this one before - its used on Tower of Goo!
WTF is this? Blech!
It started, and I was expecting Kirsty MacColl.
Strange - I think I've heard that tune before :-)
Vamos Astor

Gotan Project is, let's say... a copy to this...
 psycholynx wrote:
Everytime I hear the squeezebox played like this I think of the movie "12 Monkeys"
 
I just recently saw that movie after not having seen it since it came out.  It's better than I remember.  Maybe seeing it more than once takes some of the initial confusion out of the story, since it's not straightforward.

But I get it confused with "The Fifth Element", which wasn't so good then and still isn't.

Easy to call this being eclectic,
but hard to call it RUBBISH,
when played on RP.


See the movie "The Tango Lesson" if you like this music.  This is part of the sound track.  A great movie, imo.
Great performance by Yo-Yo. I was very lucky to see Piazzolla live in the late 80's, shortly before the stroke that ended his career. It was one of those concerts where you walk out afterwards feeling like a changed person - it was music and a type of performance I'd never seen before.
 electronicshaman wrote:

You read my mind. I was also thinking Gotan Project, either way, I like it!

 
That's what I heard in the first few lines....couldn't put my finger on it.

Gotan meets Copland....

I get it from Cream to ELO to Yo yo man next weird Al on accordian doing led zep solos. 
 
Yo Mama.  Where I come from that is an insult.
Wow! Yo-yo on RP....now THAT'S eclectic!
I like the spoken version better.
psycholynx wrote:
Everytime I hear the squeezebox played like this I think of the movie "12 Monkeys"
The soundtrack of "12..." has 'Suite Mar del Plata' (another Piazzolla's composition) as the one that opens the titles in the movie.
Deadwing wrote:
This piece reminds me of the music from 12 Monkeys
There's a different version by Grace Jones in the movie "Frantic" called "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)"
This piece reminds me of the music from 12 Monkeys
You can never get too much Yo-Yo.
I have been a long time admirer of Ma but only became familiar with Piazzola through RP. What a happy convergence this is.
That is so good! It lets me crave for a milonga evening.
Love this piece! I once used it for a presentation on Latin-American music styles back in college.
RP needs more Yo-Yo Ma!!! emoticon is as close as I could get.
Piazolla!!! I'm happy again :)
This arrangement puts so much urgency into this song....and that's good!
I have this CD, it is wonderful. Yo Yo Ma plays the marvelous Astor Piazzolla.
SigmaBetaTooth wrote:
This sounds like the soundtrack for Waking Life.
You read my mind. I was also thinking Gotan Project, either way, I like it!
...images of smokin hot women in dresses slit to the thigh, badass guys lighting cigarettes...
Hello cheap italian restaraunt.
This sounds like the soundtrack for Waking Life.
Muy buena versión.
First a mambo, now a tango. How I wish I were able to do some of those hot latin dances....
That's libertango, liberty + tango Superb!
I enjoy this quite thoroughly, although in my mind it takes me towards the music I hear in Cirque du Soleil productions like Quidam or Varekai. Love it, love it, I'm just imagining a trapeze up in the high ceiling of our office with performers just putting on a show. Just my overactive imagination again!
ARGH! Why truncate Libertango!? The horror...
Play the original version
psycholynx wrote:
Everytime I hear the squeezebox played like this I think of the movie "12 Monkeys"
Same here =) Then again it was Piazzolla penning the main theme to the movie. A 9 track by the way, I got the rest of this album.
the tango and cello are both inherently sexy. good combination - but the chest piano steals the show on this one.
grassfolk420 wrote:
Reminds me of the Tosca Tango Orchestra from Austin.
I agree with you completely. I thought this track was part of the soundtrack to the movie "Waking Life." That whole soundtrack was done by the Tosca Tango Orchestra and the movie was shot in Austin. I love how "on the same page" we were there.
rah wrote:
I believe Kirsty MacColl has a song that is sung to the same melody as this...anyone know the one I mean? It's a song about being depressed or something I think...
Yes, it's even here at RP.
Thank you, Bill, for playing this! And thank you to the uploader, too.
I believe Kirsty MacColl has a song that is sung to the same melody as this...anyone know the one I mean? It's a song about being depressed or something I think...
Not knocking the song or his talents, but doesn't the name "Yo-Yo Ma" sound gangsta to you?
:sunny.gif:
Reminds me of the Tosca Tango Orchestra from Austin.
psycholynx wrote:
Everytime I hear the squeezebox played like this I think of the movie "12 Monkeys"
Glad it's not just me then. Good scary movie.
Dante_Angelo wrote:
ahhhh... Piazzolla... a genius...
I agree with you!
"Strange, I have seen that face before..."
Everytime I hear the squeezebox played like this I think of the movie "12 Monkeys"
Wow...another minute of this and I'll be packing my bags for Argentina. Yo-yo is right up there with Lebowski.
hobbitt wrote:
Full props to Ma, but who's the dude(?) on the accordian? Or is it a concertina?
Nestor Marconi on the bandoneon...
Ahhhh -- TANGO!
Full props to Ma, but who's the dude(?) on the accordian? Or is it a concertina?
Well, here is an Asian who can sensitively and affectionately render homage to the tango. Go figure! I see the connection to the David Byrne attempt to do Latin American, but this succeeds where that didn't. Of course it might also have to do with the fact that this has nary a horn.
excellent track! the background music reminds me a lot of mr bungle's 'violenzia domestica.'
ahhhh... Piazzolla... a genius...