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Nuevo Tango group The Oblivion Project is fast becoming one of the Detroit area’s most popular Latin music ensembles. Created to pay tribute to the concert music of Argentine composer and bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla, the group injects an emphasis on rhythm section playing and craftsmanlike improvisation to such famous works as "Libertango" and "Adios Nonino". In the skilled hands of the Oblivion Project, the passion-filled, dramatic concert tangos of Piazzolla evoke the romance and intrigue of Buenos Aires after dark.
The group—comprised of award-winning accordionist/bandoneonist Julien Labro, renowned jazz pianist Tad Weed, avant-garde percussionist Alex Trajano, violinist Gabe Bolkosky, cellist Derek Snyder and bassist John Holkeboer—has been called "a tight band of musical adventurers," and their concert described as "a broad palette of moods and styles: straight-to-Hell tangos of tremendous hypnotic force, floating jazz-fusion-like space walks, and even tender major-key romance." Internationally renowned bandoneonist and tango composer Paolo Russo says: “YES! YES! YES! Finally a project with Piazzolla's music with a strong character, taste, power, rhythmic definition. Modern, original, very well played, with great feeling."
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