Performing an amazingly rich beautiful musical duel, Tango Extremo has touched the hearts of many around the world. Passionate violin and soprano saxophone parts make you feel like you are the main character in your own play. What makes it surprisingly fresh and even more captivating is the blending of the sensuous tango music with funky jazz, touching classical music and energetic Brazilian elements. Tango Extremo shows that tango means living, means dancing, means shelter in the shadow from the sun. Come along and experience a sleepless night in sultry Buenos Aires.

The group was founded in 2003 and has played at many venues and stages in The Netherlands, Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, México, United Kingdom, Turkey, Kurdistan, Ireland, Croatia, Russia, China, South Africa, Botswana, Bolivia, Uruguay, South Korea, Greenland, Iceland, Germany, Switzerland, Aruba, Curaçao, St Martin, Ecuador and Colombia. In august 2009 they were performing at the Buenos Aires Tango Festival in Argentina, the most prestigious tango-festival in the world.

LATEST PROJECTS (2013/2014)

MAESTROS

From this coming 1st of September 2013 the new theatre program of Tango Extremo will see the light! The name of the new show ‘MAESTROS’ and is an ode to a number of leading composers of various kinds, but all with their own unique musical beauty. Some closer related to tango than others, like for instance Astor Piazzolla, but also a variety of composers that are not directly linked to tango, like Sergej Prokofjev, with the famous musical fairytale ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and the legendary 2nd pianoconcerto of Rachmaninoff. Furthermore what do you think of the beautiful compositions of Jacques Brel or Paul McCartney?

From September on there will be many concerts all over The Netherlands.

ST MATTHEW PASSION

In the month of April 2014 Tango Extremo will be touring The Netherlands with a very special program: our own version of Western Europe biggest classical masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion. Especially for this program, Tango Extremo will cooperate with two big names, the great singer PEARL JOZEFZOON (famous of the television program The Voice of Holland) and theatre maker JAN ROT. Right at this moment the group is busy with writing and arranging the repertoire and is looking forward to showing you the results in April 2014.

FORMER PROJECTS

VIVA LA VIDA! (played in 2011 and 2012)

This was some special project! ‘Viva la Vida!’ was a tribute to love and to life in its strength and its fragility. The happy moments but also the less fortunate. The sun but also the shadow. In other words: life in all its ways. As you probably know by now, the Quinteto Tango Extremo has musically always set out its own path and this project is a testimony to their attitude to music. Besides typical tango themes, there were also many traditional Dutch songs like ‘Het Dorp’ by Jean Ferrat and famous classics like Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’, but all in beautiful tango arrangements.

TANGO NOVO

The name of this project of the group was ‘Tango Novo’, which is the literal translation for ‘New Tango’.

The big inspiration source for Tango Novo is the music from Brazil, by a.o. famous composers from different style periods: Ernesto Nazareth and Hermero Pascoal. The result was an impressive combination of the Argentine Tango with Bossa Nova, Milonga and Samba: a special blend of sensuality, passion, romance and Brazilian rhythms.

LINE UP

Tanya Schaap – Violin and leader

Ben van den Dungen – Soprano saxophone

Rob van Kreeveld- Piano

Oleg Fateev – Accordion

Marc van Rooij – Double bass

DISCOGRAPHY

‘El Silencio’ (Munich Records)

‘Una Cosa Diferente’ (Munich Records)

‘Érase una vez..’ (Maxanter Records, The World Series)

‘Carnaval de Buenos Aires’ (Maxanter Records, The World Series)

‘Fantango’ (JWA Jazzrecords)

'Toujours bizarre’ (JWA Jazzrecords)

‘DeLaMar Live’ (JWA Jazzrecords, dvd)

NEW RELEASE

Coming in autumn 2013

‘Dama de blanco’ (JWA Jazzrecords)