Tangowerk (2011)
Studio album by
Nhoah
ReleasedMay 2011
Genre
ProducerNhoah
Nhoah chronology
"Excess All Areas"
(2014)		 Tangowerk (2011)
(2011)

Tangowerk is a project by Berlin-based music producer, composer and artist Nhoah. Its main musical influences are Argentine tango and the Electronic music sounds of Berlin.[1]

Background

Travels to Buenos Aires in 2005 sparked the initial inspiration for the creation of the project.[1][2] Over the span of the next five years, many international artists in Berlin and Buenos Aires were recorded to eventually finalise the 14 tracks for the debut album carrying the same name as the project: Tangowerk. Besides electro and tango themes, audio aesthetics based on the Golden Twenties took strong musical influence.[3]

The album was mostly recorded in the famous Estudios ION in Buenos Aires where artists such as Astor Piazzolla or Osvaldo Pugliese had been recording.[4] Back in Berlin, modular synthesizer, analog gramophones, radios and reel-to-reel tape recorders as well as state of the art technical post processing applications were implemented to create the unique, intermodal, amalgamated soundscape.[3]

Featured Argentine vocalists include Tango icon Adriana Varela,[5] singer Walter "Chino" Laborde and Karina Beorlegui as well as rapper El Topo. They were joined by Berlin-based singer Mieze Katz, Ina Viola and Lulu Schmidt, as well as Australian performance artist Headvoice and Crooner Louie Austen from Vienna. Collaboration with the Berlin Comedian Harmonists further impressed the musical touch of the 1920s.[3][6][7]

String and Bandoneon sections were played by Charly Pacini, Federico Terranova, Pablo Gignoli, Julio Coviello, Bruno Giuntini, Pablo Jivotovschii and Alfredo Zuccarelli, members of the Avantgarde Tango Orchestra Fernández Fierro.[8] The horn section of the song 1-2-3 was performed by the big band Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra.[9]

The entire creational process was documented by video artist Carola Schmidt. She directed and produced a respective documentary titled Tangowerk by Nhoah.[10] und sechs Musik- und Tanzvideos.[11]

Tangowerk was internationally published in May 2011 as a CD+DVD along with a 64- page booklet and one hour of video content.[7]

After the first official show at Niceto Club in Buenos Aires with Compañía Inestable of Clubabends Club69 (serving as the foundation for the complimentary music video for the first single releaseDancing On The Volcano),[12] performances at the Japanese fundraiser Ki.Zuna at Maria am Ostbahnhof,[13] at Arte Lounge (First Broadcast: 13 December 2011) [14] and at Kino Babylon (on December 15, 2011) followed. The later involved a one-hour-long live show announced by the premiere of Carola Schmidt's movie documentary [10] and a screening of her award-winning short film Wir bitten Dich, verführe uns![15][16]

The title Alone With Ourselves was created in collaboration with artist The Oracle (Dr. Daniel Dahm), addressing issues of ecological and anthropological sustainability.

Tangowerk's latest album Excess All Areas was released in 2014 by R.O.T Records. Its main musical inspirations are Techno, the party music of Berlin in the 90's, Tangowerk's live performances as well as the daily news. Five new members joined the collective: Lulu Schmidt, Ina Viola, Staab, Hajo Rehm und Y3ars. They toured and performed internationally, e.g. in the USA. Their live performances continue to be supported by a diverse mix of high tech applications, extravagant costumes and visuals as well as culturally infused concept art.[17]

Discography

Albums

YearTitle [7]
2014Excess All Areas
2011Tangowerk

Singles

YearTitleFeaturing
2015All and AllIna Viola
2014EmergencyLulu Schmidt
2014Love&WinY3ARS
2014Geld/BlingMIA.
2012InnocentLulu Schmidt
2011Dancing on the VolcanoHeadvoice
2011Tuyo Soy/Ob Ich Dir Treu Sein KannWalter "Chino" Laborde, Berlin Comedian Harmonists, Karina Beorlegui[18]

References

  1. 1 2 "TANGOWERK by NHOAH . INFO . Electro Tango Fusion". tangowerk.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Nhoah: Tangowerk". tip berlin. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Elektronischer Tango: Lost in Weltschmerz - Kultur". Tagesspiegel. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Buenos Aires Ciudad - C.P.P.H.C". buenosaires.gov.ar. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Página/12 :: espectaculos". pagina12.com.ar. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Del sintetizador al bandoneón: el punk berlinés se pasa al tango". rionegro.com.ar. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 "TANGOWERK by NHOAH - MUSIK". tangowerk.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Página/12 :: espectaculos". pagina12.com.ar. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ "TANGOWERK by NHOAH - MUSIK". tangowerk.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  10. 1 2 http://www.spiegel.tv/filme/tangowerk/ Spiegel TV Dokumentation: Tangowerk - Berliner Clubsound trifft Buenos Aires
  11. ↑ http://www.tangowerk.com/video_de Filme zum Projekt
  12. ↑ "TANGOWERK by NHOAH - Dancing On The Volcano - NHOAH feat. Headvoice (Short Version) on Vimeo". vimeo.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Tangowerk feat. Ina Viola Blasius & Headvoice Message for Japan". YouTube. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  14. ↑ "de/4271586,CmC=4271584". arte.tv. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  15. ↑ "www.cervantes.de/nueva/de/cultura/programm?event=2011-12-15&month=12&year=2011". cervantes.de. Archived from the original on February 5, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  16. ↑ "videokatalog/Gesellschaft/Prominente/Musiker/video-Noahs-Debütalbum-Tangowerk-Musikalisches-Experiment-auf-der-Bühne-Unterhaltung-139034". stern.de. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  17. ↑ "TANGOWERK EPK Live 2015 on Vimeo". vimeo.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  18. ↑ "Karina Beorlegui". Archived from the original on February 23, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2009. Karina Beorlegui
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