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Daniel Melingo - “Santa Milonga”
Produced by Daniel Melingo
Masterised  by: Mario Breuer y Raphaël Jonin
Cover Design: Les Associes Réunis, Gérard Lo Monaco, Etsuko Watanabe. 
www.mananamusic.com

“To be Melingo it is necessary to walk down the street smelling the poetry like a hunting dog. It is necessary to dance like a whip and to sing like a scar” says with masterfully chosen words Sergio Makaroff. And it is all true.

With this album Melingo becomes part of a sort of artists’ revolution, new and old, who are waking up to the sleepy phenomenon of the street corner tango. Because that is the work of Melingo, to be porteño, of Buenos Aires, of the extremely rich Rio de la Plata mixture, of Spanish and African blood, Italian and Jewish. Of that combination of the exile that wrote melodies for nostalgia, songs of the ghetto, splashed with lunfardo (slang) terms, of bars and friends, women and vices, of that Argentine compadreo (actively smug) that amuses the locals and  irritates the neighbours.

“Melingo is the legend of Melingo, the protagonist of a sometimes too intense life that it had to end, inevitably, in tango” Makaroff adds in the cover of the CD. He was born in 1957 and he played with Milton Nascimento until around 1980 when he joined the band Los Abuelos de la Nada. Still being part of a band where he was elbow to elbow with no other than Miguel Abuelo and Andrés Calamaro, Melingo needed more exits for his creativity, reason why he joined Pipo Cipollati and Fabiana Cantilo and forms simultaneously “Los Twist”. With both groups he plagued the Argentine rock of classics.

After some projects on TV and two albums published in Spain under the name “Lions in Love”, Melingo dared to do the tango for the first time in 1998 with “Low Tangos”. His second bet was “Ufa” in 2003. Today he gets top grades with this compendium from tangos, candombes and milongas that is “Santa Milonga”.

If Melingo is the future of tango, we are in good hands.

Track List:

1. Narigón
2. Leonel el feo
3. Angurrienta
4. De todo y para dos
5. Este cuore
6. Agárrese Don Enrique
7. Muleta de borracho
8. Sin Luna
9. Noche transfigurada
10. El extraño caso
11. Che jeringa
12. La pebeta de Chiclana
13. El garrón
14. Ayer