... "The umbilical cord cannot be severed without generating distortion and misunderstanding. The nurturing influence of Candombe must be revisited, re-actualized, to keep Tango evolving and generating into something unimaginable at the moment. Perhaps, we would then see the so-called Nuevo Tango (in its musical designation) FINALLY enriched, so it can emerge out of the rhythmic cul-de-sac in which it momentarily finds itself. I refer to the very monotonous rhythm that almost ALL of the Nuevo Tango pieces repeat; that is the obvious display of the bankrupt conception, coming from a place of a poor rhythmic ability."...
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