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Genres: Tango

Hugo Diaz

Hugo Diaz was born on August 10th 1927 in Santiago de Estero. At the age of five he began to play the harmonica, and less than two years was already performing regulary for a local radio. All his life, in spite of a highly sucesfull career, the ex-child prodigy remained loyal to the compagnon of his youth like the Abalos brothers and the great percussionist Domingo Cura with whom Diaz recorded on many occassions. His debut in Buenis Aires around 1944 werre of course spectacular and resulted in a whole series of record contracts with Odeon, TK, Jockey and later, RCA. But we should contniualy bear in mind the deep rural roots of Hugo Diaz. If he made his name as a first class tangueros, yet the genius of Diaz was expressed above all in the provincial musiccs forms he had grown up with: Chacareras, zambas and Milongas. But such a musician could never really be confined in a single style.
In 1953 during an European tour, Hugo Diaz had the oppurtinity to meet two admired musicians, Larry Adler and Toots Thielemans. The admiration was mutual since Toots Thielemans never failled to pay hoamge to Hugo Diaz. On his return home, where the nuevo tango was revolutionising the music scene, his situation seemed more difficult. But Diaz was to record the most important part of his musical legacy during the 1970.
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This Dark and moving tribute to Carlos Gardel can be considered as the Hugo Diaz swan song. The reeds were probably never freer than when moved by his inspirational breath . You will hear the grunts, like a wild animal’s, and the unique way he has of drawing out a very high pitched note or of rounding off a sequence with a low note, like a bullfighter delivering the death-blow. This tender violence perpetrated on sound serves to extract the musical gold existing somewhere beyond expiration, in the zones where the mountain air is so rarefied that it makes you feel giddy. And the whole performance has the aim of promoting a single cause : to be free. Free like Hugo Diaz, who created worlds, peopled them, set them in movement, loved and then destroyed them. Who used a small, insignificant instrument to recreate everything – for the better. Released on february 21th of 2006.

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	Title	Length	Sample
	Mano a mano	3:52
	Mi Bueno Aires Querido	2:30
	Melodia de Arrabal	3:43
	Soledad	3:04
	Amores de estudiante	2:42
	Cuesta Abajo	4:04
	Volver	3:01
	Volvio una noche	2:57
	Guitarra mia	4:29
	Por una cabeza	3:15
	Silencio	3:12
	Arrabal Amargo	3:34
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