The Tango Saloon

‘Shadows & Fog’ SMH Review

thetangosaloon — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:01:43 +0000

The Tango Saloon ‘Shadows & Fog’ (Romero/Newmarket)

Review in The Sydney Morning Herald, 18th May 2012 by John Shand

The brilliant Deadwood aside, westerns have been sadly out of favour on our TV screens, but not on our sound systems. The latest round-up from The Tango Saloon blurs genres even further than before, with a distinct film-noir element now darkening the tumbleweeds and showdowns. Eeriness and sophisticated humour become as entangled as heatwaves and sand in a lonely desert. Julian Curwin can carve a third notch in his guitar for another victory over the evil forces of musical predictability. His scowling gang includes Marcello Maio (keyboards), Mark Harris (bass), Danny Heifetz (drums) and Jess Ciampa (percussion). They launch it tonight at the Factory Theatre with Romero stablemates Darth Vegas.

Romero Records Launch

thetangosaloon — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:43:37 +0000

The Tango Saloon will play at the official launch of new label Romero Records (romerorecords.com.au), May 18th at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville. Also performing are Darth Vegas, launching their new album ‘Brainwashing For Dirty Minds’, plus The Rescue Ships and Jay Katz.

More details here.

Album Launch

thetangosaloon — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:40:32 +0000

The Tango Saloon will launch ‘Shadows & Fog’ at the Factory Floor (105 Victoria Rd Marrickville) on April 14, supported by Miss Little and Brian Campeau. More details here.

Shadows & Fog

thetangosaloon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:15:27 +0000

The Tango Saloon’s long-awaited third album ‘Shadows & Fog’ is finally being released.

The band has always blended tango and spaghetti western sounds with other elements such as film scores, rock, gypsy, jazz and electronics. On ‘Shadows & Fog’, the tango really takes a back seat to these other elements. Following in the dark footsteps of ‘Transylvania’, the new album is something of a film noir score, conjuring images of figures lurking in the shadows, a midnight rendez-vous, a heist gone bad, betrayals and double-crosses…

The album features 10 of Australia’s finest instrumentalists, plus special guest vocalist Elana Stone on first single ‘Femme Fatale’.

Released by new label Romero Records, and launched in April at The Factory in Marrickville.

Summer Sounds In The Domain

thetangosaloon — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:47:14 +0000

Exciting news! The Tango Saloon will play before Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane in The Domain on January 14. For the Sydney Festival’s ‘Summer Sounds In The Domain’ and also including Brous from Melbourne. The Tango Saloon are on at 6.15pm, don’t miss it!

Spicks & Specks

thetangosaloon — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:37:33 +0000

This Wednesday (September 7th) at 8.30pm on ABC1, The Tango Saloon will appear on Spicks & Specks, doing the ‘name that tune’ segment, as well as closing the show…

Watch the episode on YouTube

Our friends at Wayside Music…

thetangosaloon — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:56:36 +0000

Just thought you might be interested that Wayside Music in the US is now stocking ‘Transylvania’ and ‘The Mango Balloon, Volume 1′, so these albums are now more easily accessible to all you music lovers outside of Australia. Here are the direct links:

Transylvania

The Mango Balloon, Volume 1

Brand new track ‘Femme Fatale’

thetangosaloon — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:54:38 +0000

Listen to ‘Femme Fatale’

Brand new track from The Tango Saloon’s soon-to-be-released third album.

Elana Stone – vocals

Julian Curwin – guitar/clav/bvs

Shenton Gregory – violin/viola

Mark Harris – bass/bvs

Danny Heifetz – drums