Ausente [piano solo] Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.596539

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/juan-maria-solare/ausente

Ausente (Abstent) is an atonal milonga. If Franz Liszt composed a "Bagatelle without tonality", why not a milonga without tonality. This piece is placed somewhere between classical music and new tango.

Moderator Louis Barabbas wrote about Ausente for the BBC blog Fresh On The Net nr. 305 (19 November 2018), https://freshonthenet.co.uk/2018/11/faves305

"Described as 'somewhere between classical music and new tango' the artist’s phrasing here is telling: "somewhere" rather than "something". For in Juan Maria Solare’s Ausente (absent) we are certainly transported. Each angular phrase jutting up like stone columns or distended stalactites in a limey cave. The trickling thrust of its furtive intent feels somehow elemental yet focused through an urban noir prism, drops of heavy water in varying temperatures, some icicles and some steam, shards of smoky light poking around slow moving fan blades and between the rusty teeth of ancient window grills, monstrous warped shadows cast up from humble orphaned minutiae. Music as beautiful and unsettling as it is hard to dance to."

The idea of dancing this piece was a surprise for me, since tango music doesn't need to be danced to (you can also just listen to it). But if you wonder how this tango would appear danced, imagine it is not called "tango" but "contemporary ballet rooted in tango" - and suddenly you find ways of dancing it... provided an open-minded choreographer is on board! If someone wants to dance this music in the style of the tango of 1920, they will have a hard time. It would be like trying to dance Strawinsky's Le Sacre du printemps as if it were the Blue Danube Waltz.

Juan María Solare

https://www.JuanMariaSolare.com