Please enjoy this anthology celebrating Melingo's surreal universe through his discography from 1998 to 2016: Quirky tangos, interpolated romances, and vagabond songs.
Melingo, the "trash dandy of Argentine tango," is a free and unclassifiable artist. Half-rocker, half-decadent crooner, actor, and multi-instrumentalist composer, he never ceases to intoxicate us. A radical character, his insomniac music and his underworld voice emerge from the world of early tango, from "proto-tango" as he calls it.
And this is no accident. This creature, somewhere between Tom Waits, Paolo Conte, Nick Cave, and Corto Maltese, knows and asserts, after a wild rock'n'roll detour (with the legendary 90s Argentine band Los Abuelos de la Nada), that modernity lies in the past. His insolent stories, in the form of waking dreams, sometimes real tangos, and detective novels, swinging with strings and bellows, illicit sound effects, and choruses of dockside and port-of-call men, are a jarring, almost Dadaist echo to the madness of a limping, drug-fueled world.
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