Christian Basso & Kal Cahoone - The Movement (Profania, 2000)

Christian Basso & Kal Cahoone - The Movement (Profania, 2000)

I was in Buenos Aires for a few months in 2007 - with my wife at the time and my newborn daughter. That was when I started teaching Argentine tango, and of course further training on the spot was the smartest thing imaginable. Those who knew the tango scene at that time know that it was en vogue - especially through the Gotan Project - to fuse electronic music with tango. At the same time, dancers began to use music that was not actually tango to dance to - this was then the so-called non-tango, which nevertheless had to be danceable to be called non-tango. In this context, the record Profania was an insider tip in the South American summer of 2007. Christian Basso was well known in BsAs, and especially the first song was played regularly at practice sessions and in class. Kal Cahoone, in my ears one of the most divine voices in pop music, was probably back in the US by then. She is still making music. And Christian Basso is still in the game too. But that brief moment more than 20 years ago when they connected - presumably privately as well - and created that record is forever associated for me with sweaty tango lessons, the BsAs of the noughties and my now-ended tango career.

This is one of the tracks on my playlist MELANCHOLICA - linked here.