Tango Monologues - Juan María Solare, piano - digital release

BREMEN, Germany - June 9, 2013 - PRLog -- From the most danceable milongas to Solare's "deconstructed tango".

Among the twenty works of the album there are twelve by Solare himself and several classics of tango, such as Cobián, Di Sarli or Piazzolla, in original arrangements of the pianist. Solare (Buenos Aires, 1966), an Argentine living in Germany, is one of those musicians that open scarcely travelled paths. The originality of his music stems from the confluence between post-Piazzollian tango and classical contemporary music. His singular style represents a synthesis of North and South, classical and popular, wit and melancholy, performance and composition. "Art music and light music are not irreconcilable extremes, but poles in a force field", says Solare about his "musical bilingualism".

Some of the pieces of the album Tango Monologues (http://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_tango_monologues.html) can already be listened to. There are also press reviews and detailed information about the CD.

The album Tango Monologues was recorded on the Bösendorfer grand piano at the Theatre of the University of Bremen, Germany.

Reception, press comments:

The critic agrees in that the works included in Tango Monologues are rather to listen to than to dance: "A CD to free oneself of listening habits and let oneself take by the unheard. (...) They are pieces that want to go beyond, that experiment without going astray." (Dagmar Schnürer, magazine TangoDanza, Bielefeld, Germany)

Some reviewers go further and classify this music in the genre "classical" and not "latin" or "world music", the categories in which tango is usually to be found. "Bristling with excellence (...), Tango Monologues is utterly riveting, even mesmerising. It is an exquisite album and a delightful, engrossing listen.." (Rich Rainlore, Rainlore's World, UK)

This aspect -the oscillation between classical music and tango- is key in the music of the album Tango Monologues: "In the case of Solare, his expressive proposal materialises a reinterpretation and original synthesis of the aesthetic values of both extremes of XXth century." (Dr. Julio Ogás, Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana nr. 24, Madrid)

"Juan Maria Solare gives tango a new face." (Christian Emigholz, Weser Kurier (Bremen, Germany)

"Music is his mother tongue." (Donata Holz, Wümme Zeitung, Lilienthal, Germany)

"A full-blooded musician." (Hans-Joachim Brandt, Wümme Zeitung, Lilienthal, Germany).

Juan María Solare has given piano recitals in Buenos Aires and dozens of Argentinean cities, plus Berlin, Istanbul, Finland, Denmark, Amsterdam, Madrid, Graz, Geneva, Seville, London... The audience at his concerts is fascinated by his warmth and quality.

He conducts the Orquesta no Típica (http://www.tango.uni-bremen.de/) at the university of Bremen (Germany). At the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen he teaches Composition and Arrangements. As a pianist with over 400 concerts on his account, he has participated at the World Tango Summit on three occasions. He is the editor of four tango albums for the publishing house Ricordi Munich. Twelve CDs by different performers include at least one piece by Juan María Solare.

A recent interview with Juan María Solare by Gene Foley:http://www.5forfoley.com/music-and-entertainment/item/30-juan-maria-solare

Valsarín in an example as video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bvzV7Nx7jQ