“Sebastián Piana in Red Ink” is the book, in a trilingual version -Spanish, English, Japanese- published by Editorial Mil Campanas and which is available in the main bookstores in the country and on the site milcampanas.com.ar
“He revolutionized the citizen milonga. He was the creator of the candombe milonga, his own style that crystallized in several of his compositions and was incorporated in 1940 by the Orquesta Típica Candombe, the only one that added three Afro-Argentine drums. He also made an essential contribution to the criollo waltz ”, summarized nacho pianoone of the authors and grandson of Sebastián.
The book transcribes, for the first time, the twelve compositions included in the book “Sebastián Piana by Sebastián Piana” (1969), a task undertaken by the Japanese pianist shino ohnaga and that is expressed in works such as “Milonga sentimental”, “Milonga del 900”, “Old blind man”, “Juan Manuel”, “El Pescante”, “Milonga Triste”, among others.
“Piana’s musical world is fascinating. Invincible. We had the enormous responsibility of translating these works onto paper just as he played them.” explained Ohnaga, a pianist based in Argentina and specialized in the study of tango.
The book also includes texts from Juan Falú, Lidia Borda and Susana Rinaldi. Also with the contributions of Ricardo Barrientos and Sergio Lavia, students of Sebastián Piana, who displayed a recognized teaching task. “The history of Sebastián Piana is the history of the tango song”, writes Rinaldi in the prologue.
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Who is Nacho Piana?
He is a drummer and percussionist. He was born in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In his musical beginnings he was accompanied by his grandfather, Sebastián Paiana, and also his parents, Luis and Kuki. With the teacher Norberto Minichillo he studied drums and there he learned the love for drums.
He also studied percussion with maestro Facundo Guevara. He completed formal studies at the Juan Pedro Esnaola School of Music and at the Leopoldo Marechal School of Art. He also studied Folkloric Dances and native Instruments at the Nelly Ramicone Dance School No. 1. For years he has been investigating the origins of tango and its Afro-Argentine roots.
Who is Shino Ohnaga?
She is a pianist, originally from Hyogo, Japan. She graduated from Osaka College of Music with a bachelor’s degree in musicology with a specialty in piano and harpsichord. She was a teaching assistant to Hiroko Motooka in the subject of harpsichord construction between 2004 and 2009 and worked in the “Laboratory of Baroque Music” studio.
She was also a piano teacher at the Yamaha Academy in Osaka between 2005 and 2012. Her versatility allowed her to develop not only in the field of classical music, but also within Japanese music, jazz and tango. Already in Buenos Aires, her training as a tango pianist was perfected under the tutelage of teachers Nicolás Ledesma, Mariana Diez, Adrián Enriquez and Germán Martinez. She was a member of the Emilio Balcarce Tango School Orchestra (2015-2016). Tango is today the center of her musical projects.
Piana-Ohnaga’s book is part of a line of musical works that Mil Campanas has published in recent years:
“Carlos Garcia. Tangos en Piano Vol. 1” (Leda Torres);
Hector Stamponi. His solo piano tangos” (Leda Torres),
“The secret life of Margarita Gauthier” (Paula Suárez),
“Kliber. Modern Guitar Method” (Diego Kvitko),
“Silence trembles” (Leda Torres),
“Troilus. A Theory of Everything” (Mariano Suárez and Miguel Taboada).
McCartney. Surviving the perfect song” (Julio Martínez).
Source: Ambito
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