Martín Alvarado’s honey-sweet tenor tones take the lead and Horacio Avilano’s strutting guitar provides the accompaniment on this unique album of unadorned Guitar Tango: Más Allá.

On Guitar Tango: Más Allá Martín Alvarado’s honey-sweet tenor tones lead and Horacio Avilano’s strutting guitar provides the accompaniment. Bound together the two musicians pay due respect to tango’s rich history, while gently exploring their own contemporary interpretation of the universally celebrated Latin genre.

Martín Alvarado is a Buenos Aires-born singer who has circled the globe with his traditional tango brand. Now best known for his vocals, Alvarado also plays the guitar and has a long held affection for the slap and strum of its strings. Horacio Avilano has been finding his way around the frets since the age of twelve. His musicianship is bound with a deep respect for tango traditions and form. Choosing to play only by ear, his gesture and phrasing is delivered naturally and without hesitation. His style is minimalist; his fast fingers never overpowering Alvarado’s silken song. Most of the material on Guitar Tango: Más Allá was recorded in one take, investing the music with a tangible sense of immediacy.

Argentine tango typically revels in nostalgia, a creative theme sociologically connected to the cultures found in port communities. Many of the song lyrics on Guitar Tango: Más Allá pine for lost love, lost hope and lost time. ‘Solitario’ is an ode to feelings of isolation and loneliness, and the duo’s stripped back arrangement of Chilean classic ‘Gracias A La Vida’ conveys a defiant yet subtly mournful tone that is entirely appropriate for the anthemic protest song.

The gently lulling song ‘Petit Bar’ is the first ever recording of this song, which is thought to be one of the last ever written by tango guitar legend Roberto Grela. Grela se.......
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