Daniel Yaría, a rocker who rescues the Tango guitar of the decade 20.
With a past in hard rock, with the Magnum group 44, who opened the legendary Riff; and in the blues, from the Yaría Brothers, the band that he shared with his brother Luis; the musician Daniel Yaría has dabbled in tango for several years, from a trio of guitars that he leads and with which he addresses a repertoire linked to the sound tradition of the genre in the years 20 Y 30.
"We are not tangueros, we just like playing tangos ”, Yaría warns, who remarks in that way that the revision of that musical style is faced from the current era and with a background that accounts, both from his rock lineage and his upbringing in a home where tango was the daily soundtrack.
Daniel Yaría and His Guitars are completed by Leonardo Quezada and Nicolás Pandolfelli, and it has Claudia Bruna and Patricio da Rocha, as guest singers.
With that training, the group recorded "For you", released late last year, a work that combines classics by Ignacio Corsini, Carlos Gardel, Agustín Magaldi and Francisco Canaro, among others, with own compositions, which will be presented in the coming months in a Buenos Aires theater to be confirmed.
Although he claims that tango was always present in his life, Yaría places a performance of his, at the beginning of this century, in the extinct television channel "Solo Tango" as the beginning of his professional activity in the genre, by attracting the attention of Gustavo Santaolalla, who summoned him to accompany the Bajofondo group on a European tour.
Telam: You say that tango was present in your house when you were a child. Did you always keep that pleasure for the genre or was it hidden by rock and then it reappeared?
Daniel Yaría: Tango was always present. Unconsciously, always was. I came back from playing ball in the street and as I went up the stairs of my house Corsini sounded, Gardel. And while I was rockin ', always played some tangos for me. I locked myself in my room, I would pick up the viola and play tangos.
T: It is often said that tango reaches a person when it reaches a certain age at maturity. Was there a moment or event that brought you closer to the genre?
DY: I had a guitar teacher who was Antonio Cini, who played with Roberto Goyeneche and Nelly Omar, so some incidence is seen that it had. But when I die, his wife asked me for help to sell a guitar and in gratitude, He gave me a record player. There I started to check the records that my old man had in a closet. I started an almost frantic search and realized I wanted to touch that, besides rock. I think it's good to go to the root. There are not many people doing that and it is necessary.
T: How do your own compositions dialogue with those works created almost a hundred years ago?
DY: I like that sound of the years 20 O 30 For touching, but the lyrics are current. You do it with the language you have. When I sit down to compose I get that musical style, that I have very incorporated, I don't have to think about it; but the lyrics have to do with my reality.
T: There is a lot of talk about the relationship between tango and blues but in aspects related to sentimental. What musical connections do you find?
DY: There are many tango bars that are concatenated with the blues. Even, there are rhythms that if they are accelerated they are boogies. Another example, If you listen to the beginning of "Nostalgia" it looks like "Something" by The Beatles. I believe that all music itself is always related, any style. Everything was merging.
T: He had the opportunity to play in emblematic European venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, From london. Did you feel like an ambassador of our culture in those moments?
DY: I hadn't taken it that way, but being there you realize what you are. There they don't evaluate you for what you say you are, but for what you do.
Source: Telam / serargentino.com – 20 April 2019
