¿¿¿No conocías a Tequila??? :eek: For Jupiter's sake!!! That's one of the worst MUSICAL SINS I've ever known!!!! As a penance, I impose you to jump:

I can, effortlessly, cite 100 Argentine bands better than Tequila. Even bands playing for free on pubs.

Just ask a dozen of Argentines about the best bands. Tequila is not considered.
Even Calamaro is not top.

Believe me, Ariel Roth is nobody.

He was lucky to play with Calamaro, but that's it.
Calamaro could have replaced him with 1000 other random dudes, and it would not make a difference.

Ariel Roth plays in Spain, because he doesn't have a chance in Argentina.

Do not take Spanish or Mexican sources as a guide to Argentine music (worse, to Argentine rock). It's a non starter.

It was the other way around. Rot gave Calamaro the opportunity to join Los Rodríguez in 1990, when the other three members were already together. :D

Nope. It is because he was already living in Madrid in 1976, when he was only 16 years old. :D Also, he has collaborated with some important musicians such as bands Extremoduro and Pereza.

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Apart from that, this is another one Argentine musician that I like: Fito Páez.

^That's actually not an Argentine song, but a cover of a Spanish song (Spanish as from the country Spain, not just on Spanish language). I believe that the author is Joaquin Sabina.

Paez's songs that I most like are probably those:

Brillante sobre el mic


Sasha, Sissí y el círculo de baba


El amor después del amor


Polaroid de locura ordinaria

Both. Sabina & Páez. From joint album Enemigos íntimos (1998). Also published in Antología (Páez's compilation album).

:( Rest in Peace. I listened to several of his songs and I really liked. Not everyone can play together with BB King:




Thanks to YouTube, I am "discovering" a lot of music from the 70's lately. I liked El Reloj:

Let's switch to something more bluesy:

Viejas Locas is a band with Rollings Stones influence, whose singer is probably the worst ever Argentine singer.

Perra


Me gustas mucho


I like the parts on which the singer shut up:

Qué vas a hacer tan sola hoy


Me gustas así

Today a turn to latin with some rock fusion:

Bersuit Vergarabat

El viejo de arriba


Se viene el estallido


Yo tomo


La bolsa

Ok. Calm down.

You are having too much party. You need a time to just let it go; watch motes of dust slowly wandering on the rays of sun.

Abandon yourself into Oblivion:

Piazzolla
Oblivion


I lied. It's obsessive:

Cité tango


The mind is a jail. Dream with liberty... If you can:

Libertango



Verano porteño


Same song. Bonus track: ASTOR PIAZZOLLA "VERANO PORTEÑO" [HQ] - YouTube

Andean music, and Andean related.

Víctor Heredia
Ojos de cielo


Illary
Candombe Para Jose


This is a song from Edmundo Zaldivar, intrpreted by Los Nocheros

El Humahuaqueño


This belong to church genre:

Ariel Ramírez
Gloria

I'm back from vacations.

Here are some songs I found on my travels:

This is my new anthem to beer, under the folk metal genre:

Tersivel
Cruzat Beer House


Cosa Nostra


Cruzat Beer House is a bar on Buenos Aires, and the first song is named after it.

Other bands on this genre that almost convinced me were Tengwar with a song named "A Long Expected Fading", and Thelema (yes, just another band with that name) with his song Misanthropolis.
I said that "almost" convinced me, but not really, so I do not post his videos here. Just some links in case you are curious.


Now, a switch to the pop side:

This other song also is named after a bar. It seems to be in fashion to name songs after places where the band plays frequently:

La Perra que los Parió
La Perra Disco Bar


Miseria Digna
Bifurcación

Redonditos again

Me matan, Limón


Pool, averna y papusa


Angel de los perdedores (Redondos & El Soldado)


Juguetes perdidos

Popular musicians from Argentina
 

Hello!

It's my first post here. I'm from Argentina, hoping to exchange some music knowledge with you. Please forgive my bad english!

I want to bring to you some artists from my country, from the popular scene and the diferent ages of the recording century, that I think you might want to discover:


Música del interior, commonly called folklore by argentinian people:

Andres Chazarreta - compiler of music, researcher, also composer of clasical folklore songs.
Atahualpa Yupanqui - a great poet (payador), composer of milongas and other lyric styles.
Hilario Cuadros - one of fathers of the western style, called estilo o foklore cuyano (from the region of Cuyo), composer of tonadas, cuecas, etc.
Jaime Dávalos - great composer and poet of northern style (folklore norteño), chacareras, zambas, bailecitos, etc.
Alberto Merlo - a writer and composer of southern style (canto surero), wich includes milongas, triunfos, cifras, estilos, huellas, etc.
Argentino Luna - poet and composer of music of southern style, o musica pampeana (La Pampa), like milongas, cifras, huellas, triunfos, zambas, etc.
Hermanos Abalos - composers and players of zambas, chacareras, etc.
Ariel Ramirez - great pianist and modern composer
Cuchi Leguizamón - the Piazzola of folkore, great composer of modern zambas, gatos and chacareras. Mixed bagualistic melodical style with all genres.
Dúo Salteño - one of the best contrapuntistic vocal duos in Argentina, played own and Leguizamon's music.
Eduardo Falú - great guitar player and composer of zambas and chacareras (middle style).
Jorge Cafrune - a tradicional singer, with great lyrics.
José Larralde - a singer and composer of tradicional style, mostly middle style.
Los Chalchaleros - a popular group that played tradicional folkore.
Chaqueño Palavecino - an actual singer of tradicional songs.
Los Nocheros - popular singers and composers of songs that mix folclore with bolero and pop music.
Los Carabajal - a family group from Santiago del Estero that crossed generations and popularized de genre of chacarera.
Peteco Carabajal - composer of great chacareras.
Mercedes Sosa - a mitical argentinian voice, great singer of zambas but also music from all South and Latin America, who later included argentinan rock songs and ballads to her repertoire.
Leda Valladares - a compiler of music and composer of coplas, bagualas and vidalas.
Mario del Transito Cocomarola - the father of chamamé.
Tarrago Ros - composer of clasic chamamés.
Raul Barboza - great bandoneonist/acordeonist, the equivalent of Piazzola for music from the Litoral (chamamé, rasguido doble, chamarrita, etc)
Chango Spasiuk - modern player of chamamés.
Chango Farias Gomez, and his groups (Grupo Vocal Argentino, La Manija, etc) - a very experimental composer, mixed world music styles with argentinian folkore.
Raúl Carnota - a modern composer, that has another view over folklore songs, and a style of his own.
Jaime Torres - famous charango player, and composer too.
Juanjo Dominguez - great guitar player, composer and arranger.
Liliana Herrero - actual singer that mixed a lot of genres with folklore and has a particular expresive way of singing.
Acaseca Grupo - newest sensation of folklore, followers of Leguizamon, Farias Gomez, Carnota, combine their music with jazz and other rythms like candombe, tango, etc.


Tango and related:

Angel Villoldo - one of the first tango writers, of what is now called La Guardia Vieja (old tango)
Carlos Gardel - the most mitical tango singer ever, and a talented composer of some the most world known tangos. Singed also milongas, estilos, and other tradicional styles and was the pioneer of tango-canción (tango-song, or tango-chanson).
Julio De Caro - violinist, orchestal director, and composer of tangos, one of the pioneers of the next generation of tango, called La Guardia Nueva ('20s-'40s).
Juan Carlos Cobián - great pianist, orchestal director, and composer of the Guardia Nueva.
Juan D'Arienzo - orchestal director that combined the sound of Guardia Nueva with style of Guardia Vieja.
Carlos Di Sarli - also pianist, director and composer of great tangos.
Francisco Canaro - violinist, composer and orchestal director of tangos, also from the Guardia Nueva.
Edmundo Rivero - a great voice of tango of Guardia Nueva and modern tango.
Roberto Goyeneche, el Polaco - a singer that made his own style of singing, like acting or telling stories.
Anibal Troilo - one of the greatest bandoneonists and composers, of Guardia Nueva and the later modern tango.
Mariano Mores - pianist, director, and composer of famous tangos.
Osvaldo Pugliese - a pianist and composer of modern tango, previous to Piazzola.
Astor Piazzola - world famous modern tango composer, and great bandoneonist.
Horacio Salgán - one of the bests tango pianists ever, with remarcable classical education.
Atilio Stampone - great pianist and composer.
Antonio Agri - a violinist of great virtuosism.
Cacho Tirao - a guitar player, of incredible technique, and a great arranger.
Rubén Juarez - bandoneonist, singer, and composer, and pioneer of the Guardia Joven (90's till now).

Argentinian rock, known as Rock Nacional:

Los Gatos - the first band that made popular hispanic rock. Was a big reference for many rock musicians. Lito Nebbia, Oscar Moro, Alfredo Toth or Pappo were part of it, and become legends of the genre.
Lito Nebbia - a singer, pianist, and songwriter. The first singer/composer that made a real rock hit in spanish (La Balsa, composed with Tanguito). Founder of a self-made style that influenced many musicians.
Tanguito - a short career pioneer of argentinian rock, influenced by Presley, Donovan, Barret or Morrison, among others.
Moris - another of the fathers of argentinian rock, with classic ballads.
Sandro - a singer very influenced by Elvis, that made rock and roll but later singed ballads and latin songs.
Miguel Abuelo (and his later group Los Abuelos de La Nada) - singer and songwriter, pioneer of rock but also of pop music.
Charly Garcia, soloist & with his groups (Sui Generis, Seru Giran, La Maquina de Hacer Pajaros, etc) - the most famous rock artist from Argentina. A musician that went though 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s crossing Beatles, Queen, Genesis, Nirvana... An argentinian idol, and fantastic composer. The first who could manage a real fusion between spanish language and rock.
Luis Alberto Spinetta, soloist & with his groups (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, Los Socios del desierto, etc) - another musician that went though 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, crossing Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zepelin, jazz music and folklore. An incredible poet, one of a kind. He's art has no parallel in our language, not to say in other countries...
Manal - a trio that combined blues, rhythm & blues, soul, rock and roll, cool, bebop influence with music like tango and candombe (musica rioplatense).
Vox Dei - a classic and symphonic rock band, that made a very famous rock version of The Bible.
Crucis - the pioneers of progressive rock in Argentina, may be in all Latinoamerica.
Pappo Napolitano and his groups (Los Gatos, Pappo's Blues, Riff, etc) - a legendary guitar player, who is a sort of argentinian Gary Moore, or BB King... He played blues, rock, and hard rock too.
León Gieco - a follower of Bob Dylan that mixed his style his some of the argentinian folklore.
David Lebón - a complete musician, singer, guitarrist, bassist, drumer and composer that played with the greatest rock musicians of his country.
Fito Paez - a very famous Charly Garcia follower.
Gustavo Cerati, and Soda Stereo - a great musician that mixed argentinian composers like Garcia and Spinetta with bands like The Cure, The Police, INXS, U2, among others.
Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota - a very popular and rare dark band that mixes Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Madness, The Clash creating a very particular style and iconic lyrics (Indio Solari).
Sumo - A band with an italian singer (Luca Prodan), that made career in Argentina with a style of his own, which combines european bands like Madness, The Clash, etc.
Divididos - A power rock trio, ex Sumo, that combines hard rock riffs withs tradicional folklore.
Virus - One of the first bands of rock-pop music of the 80s, and pioneers of that style.
Andres Calamaro, soloist & with his groups (Los Abuelos de la Nada, Los Rodriguez, etc) - A Dylan follower, with Morrison actitude. Had diferent bands with diferent styles, but finally made his own.
Los Enanitos Verdes - rock pop band of 80s and 90s.
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - a popular ska band that combined lots of hispanic rythms, like salsa, rumba, candombe, murga, cumbia, etc.
Los Pericos - a band that made reggae and ska mixed with pop and rock music.
Ricardo Iorio and his groups: V8, Hermetica and Almafuerte - a sort of nationalist style of heavy metal, with critical lyrics, influenced by Black Sabbath, Motorheäd, Metallica, etc.
Rata Blanca - the most popular heavy metal and hard rock ballads writers in spanish language.
La Renga - a heavy rock band, with folk influences.
Los Piojos - a rock band that combines a notoriuos Rolling Stones influence with tango, milonga (estilo porteño, meaning from Buenos Aires) and candombe y murga (Rio de La Plata).
Bersuit Vergarabat - a band that mixed rock with candombe, murga, milonga, tango (musica rioplatense) and cumbia, among other genres.
Kapanga - this is a festive music band, that puts ska, cumbia, cuarteto, merengue in a rock context.
Catupecu Machu - a popular alternative rock band, with elements of Divididos and Soda Sterero.


Other artists:

Lito Vitale - great pianist, plays synthetizers and is a famous arranger and composer of all kind of popular music, including folklore, jazz, rock, etc.
Luis Salinas - great guitar player, plays and composes jazz, tangos, ballads, etc.
Maria Elena Walsh - a very popular songwriter that became famous writing songs for childrens, mixinig lots of diferents styles.
Pedro Aznar - a complete musician, singer, bass and guitar player, pianist, which has a remarcable career in rock, jazz, folklore, and latin music, and his compositions are a fusion of all.




Obviously, I skipped a lot of musicians, bands, etc... it's a difficult work to do to select some an leave others! But I hope you can take the info you are seeking or discover artists you never listened.

Popular musicians from Argentina
 

Hello!

It's my first post here. I'm from Argentina, hoping to exchange some music knowledge with you. Please forgive my bad english!

I want to bring to you some artists from my country, from the popular scene and the diferent ages of the recording century, that I think you might want to discover:


Música del interior, commonly called folklore by argentinian people:

Andres Chazarreta - compiler of music, researcher, also composer of clasical folklore songs.
Atahualpa Yupanqui - a great poet (payador), composer of milongas and other lyric styles.
Hilario Cuadros - one of fathers of the western style, called estilo o foklore cuyano (from the region of Cuyo), composer of tonadas, cuecas, etc.
Jaime Dávalos - great composer and poet of northern style (folklore norteño), chacareras, zambas, bailecitos, etc.
Alberto Merlo - a writer and composer of southern style (canto surero), wich includes milongas, triunfos, cifras, estilos, huellas, etc.
Argentino Luna - poet and composer of music of southern style, o musica pampeana (La Pampa), like milongas, cifras, huellas, triunfos, zambas, etc.
Hermanos Abalos - composers and players of zambas, chacareras, etc.
Ariel Ramirez - great pianist and modern composer
Cuchi Leguizamón - the Piazzola of folkore, great composer of modern zambas, gatos and chacareras. Mixed bagualistic melodical style with all genres.
Dúo Salteño - one of the best contrapuntistic vocal duos in Argentina, played own and Leguizamon's music.
Eduardo Falú - great guitar player and composer of zambas and chacareras (middle style).
Jorge Cafrune - a tradicional singer, with great lyrics.
José Larralde - a singer and composer of tradicional style, mostly middle style.
Los Chalchaleros - a popular group that played tradicional folkore.
Chaqueño Palavecino - an actual singer of tradicional songs.
Los Nocheros - popular singers and composers of songs that mix folclore with bolero and pop music.
Los Carabajal - a family group from Santiago del Estero that crossed generations and popularized de genre of chacarera.
Peteco Carabajal - composer of great chacareras.
Mercedes Sosa - a mitical argentinian voice, great singer of zambas but also music from all South and Latin America, who later included argentinan rock songs and ballads to her repertoire.
Leda Valladares - a compiler of music and composer of coplas, bagualas and vidalas.
Mario del Transito Cocomarola - the father of chamamé.
Tarrago Ros - composer of clasic chamamés.
Raul Barboza - great bandoneonist/acordeonist, the equivalent of Piazzola for music from the Litoral (chamamé, rasguido doble, chamarrita, etc)
Chango Spasiuk - modern player of chamamés.
Chango Farias Gomez, and his groups (Grupo Vocal Argentino, La Manija, etc) - a very experimental composer, mixed world music styles with argentinian folkore.
Raúl Carnota - a modern composer, that has another view over folklore songs, and a style of his own.
Jaime Torres - famous charango player, and composer too.
Juanjo Dominguez - great guitar player, composer and arranger.
Liliana Herrero - actual singer that mixed a lot of genres with folklore and has a particular expresive way of singing.
Acaseca Grupo - newest sensation of folklore, followers of Leguizamon, Farias Gomez, Carnota, combine their music with jazz and other rythms like candombe, tango, etc.


Tango and related:

Angel Villoldo - one of the first tango writers, of what is now called La Guardia Vieja (old tango)
Carlos Gardel - the most mitical tango singer ever, and a talented composer of some the most world known tangos. Singed also milongas, estilos, and other tradicional styles and was the pioneer of tango-canción (tango-song, or tango-chanson).
Julio De Caro - violinist, orchestal director, and composer of tangos, one of the pioneers of the next generation of tango, called La Guardia Nueva ('20s-'40s).
Juan Carlos Cobián - great pianist, orchestal director, and composer of the Guardia Nueva.
Juan D'Arienzo - orchestal director that combined the sound of Guardia Nueva with style of Guardia Vieja.
Carlos Di Sarli - also pianist, director and composer of great tangos.
Francisco Canaro - violinist, composer and orchestal director of tangos, also from the Guardia Nueva.
Edmundo Rivero - a great voice of tango of Guardia Nueva and modern tango.
Roberto Goyeneche, el Polaco - a singer that made his own style of singing, like acting or telling stories.
Anibal Troilo - one of the greatest bandoneonists and composers, of Guardia Nueva and the later modern tango.
Mariano Mores - pianist, director, and composer of famous tangos.
Osvaldo Pugliese - a pianist and composer of modern tango, previous to Piazzola.
Astor Piazzola - world famous modern tango composer, and great bandoneonist.
Horacio Salgán - one of the bests tango pianists ever, with remarcable classical education.
Atilio Stampone - great pianist and composer.
Antonio Agri - a violinist of great virtuosism.
Cacho Tirao - a guitar player, of incredible technique, and a great arranger.
Rubén Juarez - bandoneonist, singer, and composer, and pioneer of the Guardia Joven (90's till now).

Argentinian rock, known as Rock Nacional:

Los Gatos - the first band that made popular hispanic rock. Was a big reference for many rock musicians. Lito Nebbia, Oscar Moro, Alfredo Toth or Pappo were part of it, and become legends of the genre.
Lito Nebbia - a singer, pianist, and songwriter. The first singer/composer that made a real rock hit in spanish (La Balsa, composed with Tanguito). Founder of a self-made style that influenced many musicians.
Tanguito - a short career pioneer of argentinian rock, influenced by Presley, Donovan, Barret or Morrison, among others.
Moris - another of the fathers of argentinian rock, with classic ballads.
Sandro - a singer very influenced by Elvis, that made rock and roll but later singed ballads and latin songs.
Miguel Abuelo (and his later group Los Abuelos de La Nada) - singer and songwriter, pioneer of rock but also of pop music.
Charly Garcia, soloist & with his groups (Sui Generis, Seru Giran, La Maquina de Hacer Pajaros, etc) - the most famous rock artist from Argentina. A musician that went though 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s crossing Beatles, Queen, Genesis, Nirvana... An argentinian idol, and fantastic composer. The first who could manage a real fusion between spanish language and rock.
Luis Alberto Spinetta, soloist & with his groups (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, Los Socios del desierto, etc) - another musician that went though 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, crossing Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zepelin, jazz music and folklore. An incredible poet, one of a kind. He's art has no parallel in our language, not to say in other countries...
Manal - a trio that combined blues, rhythm & blues, soul, rock and roll, cool, bebop influence with music like tango and candombe (musica rioplatense).
Vox Dei - a classic and symphonic rock band, that made a very famous rock version of The Bible.
Crucis - the pioneers of progressive rock in Argentina, may be in all Latinoamerica.
Pappo Napolitano and his groups (Los Gatos, Pappo's Blues, Riff, etc) - a legendary guitar player, who is a sort of argentinian Gary Moore, or BB King... He played blues, rock, and hard rock too.
León Gieco - a follower of Bob Dylan that mixed his style his some of the argentinian folklore.
David Lebón - a complete musician, singer, guitarrist, bassist, drumer and composer that played with the greatest rock musicians of his country.
Fito Paez - a very famous Charly Garcia follower.
Gustavo Cerati, and Soda Stereo - a great musician that mixed argentinian composers like Garcia and Spinetta with bands like The Cure, The Police, INXS, U2, among others.
Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota - a very popular and rare dark band that mixes Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Madness, The Clash creating a very particular style and iconic lyrics (Indio Solari).
Sumo - A band with an italian singer (Luca Prodan), that made career in Argentina with a style of his own, which combines european bands like Madness, The Clash, etc.
Divididos - A power rock trio, ex Sumo, that combines hard rock riffs withs tradicional folklore.
Virus - One of the first bands of rock-pop music of the 80s, and pioneers of that style.
Andres Calamaro, soloist & with his groups (Los Abuelos de la Nada, Los Rodriguez, etc) - A Dylan follower, with Morrison actitude. Had diferent bands with diferent styles, but finally made his own.
Los Enanitos Verdes - rock pop band of 80s and 90s.
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - a popular ska band that combined lots of hispanic rythms, like salsa, rumba, candombe, murga, cumbia, etc.
Los Pericos - a band that made reggae and ska mixed with pop and rock music.
Ricardo Iorio and his groups: V8, Hermetica and Almafuerte - a sort of nationalist style of heavy metal, with critical lyrics, influenced by Black Sabbath, Motorheäd, Metallica, etc.
Rata Blanca - the most popular heavy metal and hard rock ballads writers in spanish language.
La Renga - a heavy rock band, with folk influences.
Los Piojos - a rock band that combines a notoriuos Rolling Stones influence with tango, milonga (estilo porteño, meaning from Buenos Aires) and candombe y murga (Rio de La Plata).
Bersuit Vergarabat - a band that mixed rock with candombe, murga, milonga, tango (musica rioplatense) and cumbia, among other genres.
Kapanga - this is a festive music band, that puts ska, cumbia, cuarteto, merengue in a rock context.
Catupecu Machu - a popular alternative rock band, with elements of Divididos and Soda Sterero.


Other artists:

Lito Vitale - great pianist, plays synthetizers and is a famous arranger and composer of all kind of popular music, including folklore, jazz, rock, etc.
Luis Salinas - great guitar player, plays and composes jazz, tangos, ballads, etc.
Maria Elena Walsh - a very popular songwriter that became famous writing songs for childrens, mixinig lots of diferents styles.
Pedro Aznar - a complete musician, singer, bass and guitar player, pianist, which has a remarcable career in rock, jazz, folklore, and latin music, and his compositions are a fusion of all.




Obviously, I skipped a lot of musicians, bands, etc... it's a difficult work to do to select some an leave others! But I hope you can take the info you are seeking or discover artists you never listened.

where can be find the down links? thank you!

Welcome to MB, sirferdinand !

That`s a very impressive list of artists;I`ve heard of about four of them, so when I find the time I have some checking up to do, and will probably be asking you lots of questions.

Did you notice that Musicbanter has a special place where you can introduce yourself ? Click on this link, then on the "new thread" option, and tell us a little about yourself. You may make more aquaintances there, than here in this Folk Forum, which can be a bit slow sometimes.

Introductions - Music Banter

Good luck, and welcome, again. :)

PS Your English is very good - better than some of the native speakers who post here !!

cool i check these bands out

just to impress the argentina women LOL

Well, it is really nice to meet you. BTW, you have done a great job to post these collections of your country. But, it will take some time to check all these. So, let me check first thereafter I will post you about my interest.:drummer:

Congratulations
 

Excellent idea and thread.
I am plannin to do something similar for italian music
Ciao amico:)

Welcome. By the way, there is already a thread about music from Argentina, here.

How good is the music of Argentina?
 

I suposse that most people don't know much (maybe some tango), so here is a cross-sample of argentinian music.

Astor Piazzola is one of the great composers of the 20th century

I find it interesting that OP didn't know what section he was supposed to post this is but had the courtesy to put all those youtube videos in a spoiler tag.

What a strange person.

No he didn't

This makes more sense. Our mods are fantastic.

A moderator apparently edited my post, and added the spoiler tag. Or so I think.

¿Did I broke any rule?

_____


Did you heard some videos? Do you have an opinion?

I posted many genres because some people likes some genres, and didn't even care about others. So if he likes, for example "metal", most probably would hate pop, so there is a sample of metal.
That's why included many songs in English.

I would not take offence if you say that you don't like it. I would like to know what do you think.
I'm guess that since nobody gave an opinion or voted in the poll, they don't like it, or don't even care.

Your thread has only been here for a few hours. Give it some time.

Welcome to MB, KuntaFalza !

I really liked all the clips by Villa Mercedes; not just the music, but the videos of every-day street scenes too. As you may know, Astor Piazzola has an international reputation, although the only Argentinian cd I have is very traditional flute and guitar by Alejandro Fatur and Jorge Shitu. Have you ever heard of them?

As has been mentioned, your thread is really in the wrong section: if you look in the Country, World and Folk Forum, you´ll find threads there that discuss Latin music, but as Janszoon implies, a couple of responses a day is about average for some of these MB threads.

Finally, perhaps there are others like me; interested in Argentinian music, but not ready to vote on the music of a whole country. I imagine that Argentinia is no different from other countries - some good music, some bad !

P.S. Of all those clips you´ve already posted, do you have any particular favourites?

Thanks!
Thanks again. I recorded the clips. That is my humble city.

They were filmed on sunday, after the rain, so the roads were empty of people. It is a typical city of the Cuyo region, which is the central west of Argentina.

The Cuyo region is characterised by tree lined streets, mostly with the species Platanus. There is another Cuyo city shown on the first post, (Mendoza, between the pop genre videos).
Mendoza is a city made on a desert, but nobody would guess, because is densely populated with trees everywere. The municipality government has a register of each tree, with his health record. Every road has a water channel for irrigation.

No I never heard. I found a video on youtube from Fatur, and I liked it.
Thanks for telling.

There is an offical list of countries that should be posted there?

What is the difference between this Argentinian and British music?:


I think that in the last century, the best music was made on USA and Britain, despite that, like any country, those also made large ammounts of pretty ugly bad music.

Why I think of the music of a country, I think of the songs that I like more.
I would say that most are my favorites. But looking at the list, I see that I posted too many of Redonditos de Ricota, (that was unintended). So probably Redonditos is my prefered band.

Anal beads.

I love me some Astor Piazzolla

I was going to say Milonga folk music is interesting, such as Jorge Cafrune.

There is this thread about music from Argentina. User Argento haven't posted since July 2012. Perhaps you would like to continue the work he started.

Heh, need at least a week on YouTube to check it

This thread needs Octafonic:

Hi Heker! I was going to welcome you to MB, but I see that you joined us over a year ago. You are clearly keeping a pretty low profile! I listened to your Octafonic recommendations, and enjoyed "I'm sorry" most. Are you from Argentina yourself ? We've had a couple of guys from there, both of whom started their own threads:-

This one has some interesting music in it: http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...argentina.html

This is a short thread with a long list of musicians: http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...argentina.html

[Maybe this is an opportunity for a passing mod to practise his thread-merging skills?]

Anyway, heker, you have prompted me to check through some more of Argento's recs, so thanks for that. Since his Juana Molina clips, I think La Portuaria is the band I most liked because I love a bit of accordion. Here's a track by them with a video that confirms all my stereotypes about life in Argentina ;):-

This is obligatory about Juana Molina

I only came to find some help on lyrics on English. Had no luck.

I'm particularly puzzled by the meaning of this argie song, which I cannot understand:





The latest work from Frenkel that I remember is this one: