Tango Fusion interview by Marco Buso
Anibal Berraute— Tango Fusion
Tango Fusion interview by Marco Buso
Tangothic is an electrotango music project of Mariano Mattone, the founder and producer, who teamed up with bandoneonist, Adolfo Trepiana, to produce several CDs. Mariano Djd at some clubs, events and and on the radio before producing his first CD. His musical background had ranged from hip-hop to electronica before forming the Tangothic ptoject. I discussed his past, present and future projects, with a view to the future tango.
. MTW— Anibal, first of all thanks for being here and talking a bit about your project Tango Fusion with Modern Tango World. Let’ s start from scratch. We would like to know something about you and your musical background.
Anibal Berraute— I started studying piano at the age of five and kept that habit throughout my life going to the conservatory, studying with tutors and even at the University where I studied composition and orchestral direction. My influences are very varied, and range from The Beatles, through J. S. Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Béla Bartók and of course Astor Piazzolla.. MTW— How and when was the Tango Fusion project born? How did you meet the other musicians, how did you start working on it?
Anibal Berraute— I had in mind the idea of following the path of Piazzolla and try to paint through tango a more current landscape, I was fortunate to meet musicians who even though they came from other styles like jazz and classical music, they understood the concept and helped me to carry it forward. From the beginning, the violinist Federico Britos has been with me. He is a well-known Uruguayan musician who has played with Charlie Haden, Bebo Valdez, Cachao, etc. and Renyel Rivero, a Cuban American bassist with strong roots in jazz. As for the bandoneonist I have not yet fixed on a singlr one.
But, I have been fortunate to play with some excellent musicians, such as Juan Pablo Jofre, Miguel Arrabal, Yukie Kawanami, Pablo Mainetti, Walter Rios, Rodolfo Zanetti and others..
MTW— How would you define Tango Fusion in a musical style? What are the main musical characters of this project? Did you have any particular musical influrnces from other artists?
Anibal Berraute— I think the musicians have always have a responsibility to paint in some way the landscape that we find in front of our eyes, so that’ s what I try to do, taking the deep roots that in itself has the tango and endowing them with the environment of the present moment that we live in. For that, I use traditional instruments of the tango, such as bandoneon, piano, violin and bass, and add some ethnic instruments, strings section, percussion, etc. In the next album I will wvwn incorporate voicw for some sung songs.. MTW— How do you approach composition? Do you come up with musical ideas from jamming around, or is the piece rather well-formed in your mind as you play it on your instruments? Does your playing style involve improvisation in studio or live?
Anibal Berraute— No, usually I write the songs with the final arrangement. However, there are always changes and things are added from the ideas of the other members of the band.
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