Chamame
Banning Eyre visits Misiones province in North East Argentina with accordionist Chango Spasiuk to learn about chamame, a unique accordion driven mode of music.
Banning Eyre heads into North East Argentina with Chamame accordionist Chango Spasiuk, to see the red earth and hear this unique accordion driven music.
Misiones province in North East Argentina is a sliver of land between Brazil and Paraguay, more tropical than the rest of Argentina, it is part of the ancestral home of the Guarani people. Home to a large number of Jesuit missions in the 17th Century, during the early part of the 20th Century Misiones received an influx of European immigrants to work on the land, especially from Poland and the Ukraine. These East European farmers brought with them the accordion, which added Schottische and Polkas to an already rich cultural mix and the Chamame was born.
Banning Eyre takes internationally renowned chamame accordionist Chango Spasiuk back to his roots in Misiones, to hear about how he learnt the accordion, and to meet and record local musicians. Sergio Tarnovsky is a young local talent from Apostoles who plays the 21 button diatonic accordion known as the verdulera. Lalo Doreto hails from the town of Obera, and is a local radio host, singer, and guitarist, and he puts on a special afternoon session with some friends in his back yard.
As well as being the home of Chamame, Misiones is also the home of "yerba mate", the bitter green tea drunk with a metal straw from a hollowed out gourd by almost everyone in Argentina. Chango shows Banning the right, and the wrong way to make and drink it.
On the way back from the North East they stop in at the Anconetani accordion factory in Buenos Aires, the first Argentine handmade accordion company, to meet its octogenarian patron Nazereno Anconetani, for a tour of the workshops and a session with one of Chamame's elder statesmen, accordionist Tilo Escobar.
Presenter: Banning Eyre
Producer: Peter Meanwell.
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Chango Spasiuk (accordion)
Title unknown
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010.
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Sergio Tarnovsky (verdulera accordion) Roberto Rodriguez (guitar)
La Revoltosa
Composer: Ram贸n "Tito" Aranda
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Apostoles, Argentina, May 2010.
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Sergio Tarnovsky (verdulera accordion) Roberto Rodriguez (guitar)
Por Siempre Apostoles
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Apostoles, Argentina, May 2010.
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Sergio Tarnovsky (verdulera accordion), Roberto Rodriguez (guitar) Chango Spasiuk (accordion)
Polka Rural
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Apostoles, Argentina, May 2010.
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Sergio Tarnovsky (verdulera accordion) Roberto Rodriguez (guitar) Chango Spasiuk (accordion)
Gobernador Virasoro
Composer: Luis Angel Monzon
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Apostoles, Argentina, May 2010.
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Lalo Doreto (guitar & voice) Israel Machado (accordion) Lorenzo Gamon (guitar & voice)
Fiesta Campera
Composer: Moncito Merlo
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Obera, May 2010.
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Lalo Doreto (guitar & voice) Israel Machado (accordion) Lorenzo Gamon (guitar & voice)
Chamame
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Obera, May 2010.
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Lalo Doreto (guitar & voice) Israel Machado (accordion) Lorenzo Gamon (guitar & voice)
Kilometre 11
Composer: Transito Cocomarola
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in Obera, May 2010.
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Lalo Doreto (guitar & voice) Israel Machado (accordion) Lorenzo Gamon (guitar & voice)
Chamame
Composer: Tarrago Ros
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie in ??, May 2010.
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Tilo Escobar (accordion)
Chamame
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie at the Anconetani Accordion Factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010.
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Tilo Escobar (accordion)
Escobillando
Composer: Ram贸n Estigarribia
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie at the Anconetani Accordion Factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010.
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Tilo Escobar (accordion)
El Tero
Composer: Ernesto Montiel
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie at the Anconetani Accordion Factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010.
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Tilo Escobar (accordion)
Chamame
Composer: Ernesto Montiel
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie at the Anconetani Accordion Factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010.
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Tilo Escobar (accordion) Chango Spasiuk (accordion)
La Ratonera (The Mouse Hole)
Composer: Ernesto Montiel
- 大象传媒 Recording by sound engineer Andrew Smillie at the Anconetani Accordion Factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010.
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- Sat 19 Mar 2011 15:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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