"Coffee humidity", the story of the last great tango argentino

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He was one of the four corners of the avenue Gaona and Boyacá. In 2016, Chestnut Cacho opened his own bar by that name.

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Chestnut at the opening of “Coffee humidity” in 2016. (Veronica Gherman).

Cacho Chestnut died Tuesday 15 October, to the 77 years, but his memory will remain tangos.Coffee Moisture is, definitely, one of the most important of those who wrote.

-In your letter you say tangazo "Saturday cheating" cheating days are not on Thursdays?

-Thursdays were the Puloil day, that of camucas. Saturdays were booby-trapped because there was escolazo, timba, careers. Much is played…

Cafe La Humidity I was in one of the four corners of the avenue Gaona and Boyacá, on the border of North Flores. "It was in the ochava is diagonal to the bar Lumiton", He confirmed the Cacho own putting an end to the versions in another crossing placed him.

A bar men, ruffian. In that cafe the presence of women were not warned. They were not prohibited, but simply not dared to enter because the bathroom “It was a pigsty”.

As he explained by journalist Eduardo Parisse in this newspaper, “You could read timidlyBar El Progreso”. In 1968, the windows seemed dyed blue. More for themselves than for outsiders, this enclave was simply theCoffee Moisture, what “Cacho described the same as that year with a ballad” which later became, perhaps, in the last great modern tango, Cacho recorded in February 1973.

The curtains were yellow sun. according to Cacho, the bathroom had no door and every time it rained almost fell more water inside than outside. Green cloth used to be dotted billiards, "damp". The owners were Galicians or so. There was a fellow named Antonio who had run when boys “Bar "one of his classic jokes were sent, as swiping three billiard balls on the old tramline passing by Gaona. With the slight decline, the balls were lost in the horizon Flores.

-Always she struck by how it could be possible that the same person was able to do “Coffee Moisture” and issues such as “The thief”.

-Good, He was born first typeCoffee Moisture. Do not forget that I made my debut playing the piano in a typical orchestra to 15 years. Then I smoke filled his head: electric guitars, the rock, el twist. Here tango and jazz was heard until Elvis appeared and Palito, and then he was born a popular music Argentina. What came later fat…

Cacho said that there always walked by, lifetime, and that coffee was the best school. "We still were some of the time bar, I do not know if we remain 'bar', but we see from time to time”, He said in an old interview.

“I was the only musician, although there were a couple of singers when they got, they did better than one (…) Now the kids are at the service station, I do not know what the fuck bohemian may be in a service station. But it is true thatBefore there were more places, There was wiser and more murderers, more thieves, more jets, whatnot… were other codes (…) I was lucky to stop at that coffee and get to know doctors, jets, murderers and good people. But the place was a mess. I wrote that letter in a while, an afternoon at the office of teacher Oscar Toscano, as he went for a while and I expected. When he saw, he told me: “You do not know what you wrote!”. I realized over time.

The end for Coffee Moisture came in the '70s. A pizza bar, a wine bar pizzeria. Years later, Carlos Calvo 2500 Chestnut Cacho opened his own bar with the name Café Humidity. But that is another story.

Source: Clarin newspaper – 15 October 2019