Edmundo Rivero - Esencia Criolla (2000) [2CD]

Edmundo Rivero, Esencia Criolla - 40 Obras Fundamentales(2000)[2CD]
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Leonel Edmundo Rivero (June 8, 1911 – January 18, 1986) was an Argentine tango singer, composer.

Rivero was born in the southern Buenos Aires suburb of Valentín Alsina. Joining his father in some of his travels, he was exposed to the lifestyle and the music of the gauchos of Buenos Aires Province from his early days. His maternal great-grandfather, named Lionel, was a British immigrant, and fought against the Pampas tribes in the mid-19th century, being wounded by a spear. From him, Rivero inherited his blond hair and his first name.

In his teens, Rivero's family moved to the Belgrano neighborhood, in the days where tango developed as a dancing phenomenon, but also as an ever more complex music form under the "ABC" of composers/directors Arolas, Bardi, and Cobián. At the same time, the themes of tango lyrics evolved from light-hearted ribaldry into more complex stories delving on love and manly honor.

Rivero learned classic guitar and also trained as a singer; he had a deep bass-baritone voice that was one of his trademarks, together with his huge hands (due to his acromegaly) that made him the butt of many jokes.

In 1944, Rivero joined Horacio Salgán. His three-year tenure there left no recordings (with his Bartók influences, Salgán was too "far out" for the general tango audience) but earned Rivero the respect of avant-garde and jazz musicians. To make ends meet, Rivero also worked in a duo with fellow singer Carlos Bermúdez that recorded tangos in a more commercial vein for the Colombian market.

In 1947, Rivero was hired by Aníbal Troilo, who was having a stellar run of recordings with new hit songs, many of them in collaboration with lyricist Homero Manzi. During his three years with Troilo, Rivero shared the limelight with Floreal Ruiz and Aldo Calderón, and recorded 22 songs, including the mega-hit Sur, where Troilo's melody frames Manzi's elegy for a young love and also for the old barrio.

Having found fame and fortune, Rivero left Troilo in 1950 and started a solo career. For accompaniment, he would alternate between guitar quartets and a full orchestral format for the remainder of his career. The most famous musician to follow Rivero was guitarist Roberto Grela, who was also the guitarist of Troilo's quartet.

Guitar-only formations were used by countryside milonga artists, early tango singers, and even Carlos Gardel in his youth, but Rivero's 1950s recordings, during a period of total dominance by big orchestras, was a bold statement, which forever cemented his identification with the silent masculinity of the countryside, as opposed to the emphasis that "urban" tango put on stories of lost love.

By the late 1960s, tango had become mostly "for export", since musicians and audiences were aging and making little progress from the orchestral format of the 1940s and 1950s. many tango fans rejected the music of Ástor Piazzolla and his followers, but Rivero himself admired Piazzolla, and recorded his creations on more than one occasion. Even major artists had trouble finding venues to play.

Fearing for tango's viability, in 1969 Rivero opened El Viejo Almacén ("The old store"), a tango club in the San Telmo district. His hospitality was enjoyed by many visitors to Buenos Aires, who went to Rivero's club to savor the tango music and dance in its full intensity. Among the recurring visitors were Joan Manuel Serrat and Camilo José Cela.

Rivero was hospitalized in late 1985, and died from heart failure on January 18, 1986, in Buenos Aires.


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CD 1
01- Cafetín de Buenos Aires
02- La Ultima Curda
03- Nostalgias
04- María
05- Barrio de Tango
06- Los Mareados
07- Soledad, la de Barracas
08- Niebla del Riachuelo
09- Malena
10- Sur
11- Por la Vuelta
12- Cambalache
13- Ninguna
14- Aquel Tapado de Armiño
15- Madame Ivonne
16- Sin Palabras
17- Mano a Mano
18- Corrientes y Esmeralda
19- Yo soy del Treinta
20- Confesión

CD 2
01- Milonga Lunfarda
02- La Canchera
03- Las Diez de Ultima
04- La Señora del Chalet
05- Milonga del Consorcio
06- La toalla Mojada
07- El Desalojo
08- Amasijo Habitual
09- Tirate un Lance
10- Por Culpa del Escolazo
11- Línea Nueve
12- Aguja Brava
13- Tortazos
14- Packard
15- El Chamuyo
16- Pucherito de Gallina
17- N.P.
18- El Rescate
19- El Conventillo
20- El Ciruja


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