Zaida Saiace: Round Tango

Zaida Saiace: Round Tango

Published in: 2003

Playtime: 61 min

Order-Number: dz000037

Price: 17.99 €

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01. picasso, zaida saiace
02. gnossienne no. 4, zaida saiace
03. quedemonos aqui, zaida saiace
04. taquito militar, zaida saiace
05. incognito/ round tango, zaida saiace
06. monica, zaida saiace
07. el retorno, zaida saiace
08. gnossienne no. 6, zaida saiace
09. nelly, de la calle rio cuarto, zaida saiace
10. round tango, zaida saiace
11. gnossienne no. 5, zaida saiace
12. aquellos tiempos, zaida saiace

Marcelo Rodriguez says about:

The label Los años luz approaches us the possibility of meeting again with a music whose key is the essence of the sound and the message (the visceral characteristic of the whole catalogue). This time it is the record Round Tango, by the virtuous argentine pianist and arranger Zaida Saiace. Amalgamating languages of the classical, contemporary music and of tango, Zaida Saiace submits an exquisite material surprising by its beautiful complexity and the minimalism of the arrangements from the twelve pieces. Even if the exposed ideas may sound paradoxical, both conditions can give hands and together give birth to a universe of sound very close to perfection. Furthermore, paradox is banished when music imposes itself from its warmest essence. Saiace, a prestigious artist born in Argentina, has studied in and out of the borders. Her remarkable quality has conferred her special recognition in Europe, continent where she lives and tours permanently. Between the various records edited formerly, Diario de pianista (1992) is an outstanding solo piano anthology, made up of Argentinean, Brazilian and French 20th century compositions. That material was as decisive for the following years as for the present, by integrating classic and popular music giving birth to a singularly coherent repertoire. Round Tango was recorded in Germany in November 2001 with a few recordings made in Buenos Aires at the Goethe Institute. In this recording Zaida Saiace is surrounded by a very interesting group made up of the eminent guitar player Quique Sinesi, the versatile bandoneon player Pablo Mainetti, the double bass players Enrique Díaz (of an excellent performance in “El retorno”, track n°7) and Fernando Galimany (who played together with Saiace in her recent porteño´s shows), the drummer Horacio López and the percussionist Daniel Gioia. In the record we can find works from Piazzolla, Saluzzi and from Zaida herself. The musical language from Saiace at the piano is lyric and sometimes of a sweet violence. Like in Satie´s Gymnopédies, the pianist uses static harmonies of a great simplicity to create the feeling of an extemporal beauty. Ideal to listen to it with all the lights of concentration or on Sunday morning, early, in a pre-conscious state, when one still completely ignores time and day references. In any of these two situations, music enters every corner of the soul and let it expectant, full and touched. That’s Round Tango like: passionate and beautiful. (Marcelo Rodríguez del semanario Redes de Concordia)

Nicolás Russo says about:

Tango and more Francis Poulenc -member of that brilliant group known since 1919 as Les Six- said about the impressionist kingdom: "We are tired of Debussy and Ravel. We wish a clear, healthy and strong music; a music that can become as French as Petruschka by Strawinsky is Russian: Parade, from Satie is the example". This need of national music has another turn of the screw but without the formal rigidity from the end of the 19th and beginnings of the 20th centurys. Zaida Saiace says it: "Interpretation, improvisation and composition weren't the same. But they were close. And they came together". Related to Satie by economy and elegance at the time of placing the notes and to the violence of the more visceral tango, Round Tango functions with a double unique sense: "Round" like around, like turn round tangentially but deeply. And "Round" like space and time for fight and discussion over the form and the genre. From the piano, Saiace handles the shades by getting the more subtle excellence on Picasso by Piazzolla or thundering with both hands the melody from "Quedémonos aquí". The language of this record fits her own compositions as well as the chosen interpretations among composers like Piazzolla, Guastavino or Dino Saluzzi, both popular and academic. (Nicolás Russo - Revistaveintitres)

Diego Fischerman says about:

Alone, with guitar or in quartet (bandoneon, double bass and drums) pianist Zaida Saiace, plays Erik Satie and Picasso by Piazzolla or Quedémonos aquí by Homero Expósito and Chupita Stamponi going over her own compositions. Part of the material was recorded years ago in Buenos Aires and most of the record, later in Germany. However, beyond the different times of the recording, the different timbres and esthetic points of departure of the compositions, there is a great coherence where the axis is above all the poetical expression of the interpretations. (Diego Fischerman, Página 12)

Diario C says about:

The argentine pianist Zaida Saiace has just edited Round Tango a record of a very elaborated conception coming out from the interpretations and the compositions in which starting from tango or around it, she builds an own and consistent musical universe, together with well-known musicians of the local scene, like the guitarist Quique Sinesi and the bandoneon player Pablo Mainetti. (Pedro Fernández Moujan, Diario C, Catamarca)

Ivan Sanchez (Batonga) says about:

More than interesting, the record of this pianist is at the same time her bet at this side of the ocean. Recorded in Buenos Aires and Bonn, Round Tango is a very serious work loaded with classical versions (Piazzolla, the duo Stamponi-Expósito, Erik Satie among others), besides her own compositions in which Saiace reveals herself as a surprising composer. Mentions to Fellini, Gardel , why not, Thelonius Monk and various dedications to whom she calls her masters -Egberto Gismonti, Nino Rota and Jörg Wolf, the painter of the cover- her touch is nevertheless, extremely personal, her style more dry and expositive than, for example, the one of Horacio Icasto or Luiz de Moura Castro, musicians also familiarized with the refined argentine repertoire. Saiace creates her own language, by showing herself very sure of her talent and leaks out a strong character, also visible in the text of the CD's booklet. I think we will often hear her name in these land: chamber music needs fine arts like hers. (Author: Ivan Sánchez from Batonga, Barcelona)