Angus Neil

Ella es flamenca. Él toca las congas cubanas. Nunca se habían conocido.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta

Nobody from Trinidad is supposed to play flamenco. I didn't care.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta
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Nadie de Trinidad debería tocar flamenco. A mí no me importó.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta

She's flamenco. He plays Cuban congas. They'd never met.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta
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De Sevilla a La Habana. Ida y vuelta.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta

una mina de hierro abandonada.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta

Seville to Havana. Round trip.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta
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an abandoned iron mine.

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Angus Neil — Ida y Vuelta
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THE TANGO STORY — Day 2 of 7

The tango didn't start with couples. It started with men.

Buenos Aires, 1880s. In the arrabales — the dusty outskirts where nobody wanted to live — Italian, Spanish, and African-Argentine communities were packed into conventillos. Dozens of families sharing a single courtyard.

The compadrito emerged from these streets. Young, working-class, a knife at his belt. He took the rhythms coming through the walls and made them his own. And because women were scarce in the immigrant quarters, men danced with men first — practicing in the dirt, learning the footwork, before the milonga halls opened their doors.

When they did, the city started listening.

This is The Tango Story. 7 parts. 7 days.

— Angus 🎸

THE TANGO STORY — Day 1 of 7

The tango wasn't invited to exist. It happened in spite of everything.

Buenos Aires, 1880. Afro-Argentine descendants of enslaved people keeping their candombe rhythms alive in the back streets. Italian immigrants bringing the mazurca across the Atlantic. Cuban sailors carrying the habanera through the port — a syncopated pulse nobody could shake.

Three cultures with nothing in common except that nobody wanted them. They found each other in the conventillos — the crowded tenement slums on the edge of the city. And in those cramped courtyards, something started forming.

They would call it dangerous. They would try to ban it. They would fail.

This is The Tango Story. 7 parts. 7 days.

— Angus 🎸