The Argentine journalist and author Julio Nudler wrote glowingly of the poetic quality with which Homero Manzi enlarged the tango world. In one summary of the lyricist’s career, he singled out this tango “Fuimos”…
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José Dames
Songs of the sea and the shipping trade figure prominently in the tango songbook, being such a defining feature of the port city of Buenos Aires. And among the many maritime tangos we find “Tristeza marina,” whose music and words come together to form a true gem of the song, one of the finest in the genre.
With its story of traveling to an abandoned house, and its imagery of snow and rose bushes, Horacio Sanguinetti’s lyric for the tango “Nada” evokes the scenery of Argentina’s interior…