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Hugo Diaz
Tangos
Genres: International Music, Latin Music

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Mano a mano
2. Mi Buenos Aires querido
3. Melodia de arrabal
4. Soledad
5. Amores de estudiante
6. Cuesta abajo
7. Volver
8. Volvio una noche
9. Guitarra mia
10. Por una cabeza
11. Silencio
12. Arrabal amargo

This disc contains music featured on the soundtrack for the film 'The Counterfeiters' which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008. — 'I had been appointed conductor and pianist for Hugo... more »

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All Artists: Hugo Diaz
Title: Tangos
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Acqua Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 3/2/2001
Album Type: Single, Import
Genres: International Music, Latin Music
Styles: South & Central America, Latin Music, Tango, Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 7798010678212, 3700368417546, 669910316368

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This disc contains music featured on the soundtrack for the film 'The Counterfeiters' which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.

'I had been appointed conductor and pianist for Hugo Diaz and could never iimagine how happy I was going to be. 'El Hugo' was a real genius. He asked me to transfer to the piano the melody of the Tango we were going to play in order to record it and there and then it was when all the magic started. Hugo didn't know music, he was music himself. It was then that I understood that it all had to catch on. We looked at each other and it became clear to us there was the miracle. This is a record no music lover should miss.'
Jose L. Colangelo

CD Reviews

RAW AND INTIMATE

yvonne | Brooklyn, New York | 02/23/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A child prodigy whose love of the harmonica began after a blow to the head at age 5 caused him to be blind, Hugo Diaz asked his father for a harmonica and was performing by age 7; shortly after, his sight was surgically restored but the centrality of the harmonica in his life remained. He may have been totally self-taught. I think all of this history is what we hear in his playing.

He was primarily an Argentine folklorist but he recorded several tango records; his playing on this cd is lyrical, passionate, thoughtful and relatively spare. It is not totally clear but it seems that he is, also, the guitarist on this cd.

The recording is very intimate in the sense that it picks up his breathing and his grunts. Some may see this as a positive and others as a negative.

Except for his place as the first cut on the soundtrack of the movie THE TANGO LESSON, I have no other exposure to his playing so do not know how this compares, either in his playing or the recording quality, to his many other recordings that I gather are not easily available. He died, I think, 1977 and so there will not be more from him unless it is some sort of re-issue.

Be aware that there are two musicians playing tango music with the name Hugo Diaz. The other Hugo Diaz plays bandoneon, a kind of squeeze-box instrument, and is from Uruguay."