In addition, Cuacci has just recorded and launched “Acá far” on platforms, a material made with his quintet La Maquina del Tiempo, which has as members the singer Mariel Martínez, the violist Silvina Álvarez; Lauren Stradman on drums and Laura Asensio on double bass and which falls within the framework of the new contemporary tango.
-T: Could you tell us about the central ideas that you put into play in “Here far”?
-Juan Esteban Cuacci: With La Máquina del Tango the central idea is to do tango without the typical tango clichés, in fact it is a group without a bandoneon and without a violin, it does not have a typical tango singer. The first thing in “Acáfar” was a sound idea, that the bell of tango does not sound but that it continues to have all the rudiments, all the mystical and magical part of this music. We make my works that have to do with contemporary music, jazz, some kind of fusion and the attempt of some kind of evolution of the music of the Río de la Plata.
-T: What do you think are the coordinates to rethink tango today?
-JEC: First of all, to continue doing it without being conditioned by a respect for the traditional that prevents you from innovating but rather to take the traditional, take elements of tango and be able to play with its own transformation. Just as this city and cities around the world, urban life in general, were transformed, this urban music that is tango also has to continue to transform.
-T: What is your vision of current tango and what is called new tango?
-JEC: There are many groups that make a totally current tango, which does not have to have many foreign elements of the genre, for example, the current Sexteto Mayor makes a tango that could be considered traditional but it sounds so current that it is. It seems to me that the current word regarding music means making music that is alive and today there are many young people who are very educated, play very well, make very good music, and they do tango and that is what gives life to this music.
-T: You live in Madrid, what is your artistic development in Europe?
-JEC: I have lived in Europe for more than 20 years, I make many types of music, thinking from myself, I work with the Tango Machine and also with Olvido Lanza, a Catalan violinist with whom we make back and forth music, which is music who have traveled from Spain to Latin America and from Latin America to Spain and have been transformed; He also worked a lot in Switzerland with Gabriela Bergallo, an Argentine singer based there, and with her we presented a complete work by Piazzolla that I adapted for a chamber orchestra. I’m doing everything, I work a lot, I have a lot of projects.
Source: Ambito
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