Concert in promotion of the first original Slovenian tango album Line-up: Jure Tori – accordion, piano (Slovenija) Kurt Bauer – violin (Austria) Ariel Cubria – guitar (Cuba) Ewald Oberleitner – double bass (Austria) The melancholy sensibility of original tunes composed by the accordionist of the band Orleki, Jure Tori, was calling for parallels to be
Concert in promotion of the first original Slovenian tango album
Line-up:
Jure Tori – accordion, piano (Slovenija)
Kurt Bauer – violin (Austria)
Ariel Cubria – guitar (Cuba)
Ewald Oberleitner – double bass (Austria)
The melancholy sensibility of original tunes composed by the accordionist of the band Orleki, Jure Tori, was calling for parallels to be found in music, possibly in other genres. His preceding solo creative career with its typical blends of intimist and sensitive instrumental lyrical tunes featuring elements of jazz, folk and ethno has finally crystallised into something completely new – an altogether unique type of tango.
However, there is a major difference and also surplus quality, which is due to the fact that Jure has mainly been “playing himself”. As a result, his evocation of intimate feelings with his music, and his convincing lyricism have succeeded in gaining quite by themselves the musical “form to enfold themselves in” – a subtle variant of genre, of tango as such. The type of tango that would typically be linked to tango tipico and tango nuevo, as well as other stylistic variants, yet in its core it is recognisable as an original derivative by composer and instrumentalist Jure Tori. It is as such completely original, new, and “different”.
Within the otherwise diversified Slovenian music scene, TORI TANGO is a genuine novelty in the sense that his repertoire is completely original in terms of composition and performance. The “project” – including the album featuring his new music – is therefore the first integral and completely original tango by a Slovenian musician. “Standing on the shoulders of giants within the genre,” Jure Tori has been playing and composing in his own way.
For this purpose, he has turned his band Tori Trio into a quartet, attaching to Austrian double bass player Ewald Oberleitner and Cuban guitarist Ariel Cubria an exceptional violinist from beyond the Karavanke mountains, Kurt Bauer, and renaming the band TORI TANGO. Their repertoire consists of completely new tunes, composing and decomposing “live” everything that adorns tango, from intimist and lyrical instrumental tenderness to the elation that is typical of Latin American genre approaches.
In this sense the band are continuing the tradition of the tango-related identity of sound that was initiated by Tori Trio and recognised by director Metod Pevec who used it as the soundtrack of his feature film Tango Abrazos. Naturally, the film is (also) about – tango:
