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In the guitar duel of the gauchos
Come on, let's follow the sounds out to the payada, the summer is already late, the evenings are cooler, the clammy leaves rustle in the trees and gauchos sit dueling beneath them, playing Jorge Cardoso's milonga. The guitars glisten in the low light, shivering fingers fly over the high strings, conjuring up notes as bright as the flesh of the cacti over damp flower meadows. Then they look deep into each other's green eyes, pause, let the strings hum deeper with a delicate sweetness in distant hay bales and then lose themselves in bitter sounds. The shadows of pink flowers on the lapacho trees are bitter. And at the end, if you look closely, you can see the jacaranda guitars smoking as if it were their condensing breath in the vastness of the Argentinian steppes.
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The Fueguia 1833 brand was founded by Julian Bedel in Buenos Aires in 2010. The name recalls an indigenous girl kidnapped by a British commander from Tierra del Fuego and is therefore a memorial to imperialism, as the house is dedicated to the cultural and natural landscapes of the indigenous peoples of South America: "Cultural and natural landscapes are portrayed through each creation in an olfactive storytelling composed by a palette of exotic botanical ingredients," writes Bedel on his homepage. As the artisanal production process does not involve filtration, the fragrances may be cloudy.
"Milonga Verde" thematizes the payada, a traditional guitar duel of the Argentine gauchos, in which the players try to play the most eloquent instrumental response to the previously played verse of their 'opponent'. It is a constant alternation of deep affection and losing oneself in sounds, which is represented here olfactorily by initially cool, green, cactus-like fresh, slightly flowery and sour notes of the algarrobo tree. This is accompanied by light woody, slightly sweet, spicy, hay-like notes of the pink-flowering lapacho tree, which answers the algarrobo's verse with hints of mown damp flower meadows before the jacaranda leaf (incidentally the tree from which the guitars are made) takes over again with tart, sharp, greenish woody notes and cool smoke seems to settle into a nocturnal mist. The payada is played at a moderate to low volume throughout the evening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcs2MdIIbIg
(With thanks to Marieposa)
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The Fueguia 1833 brand was founded by Julian Bedel in Buenos Aires in 2010. The name recalls an indigenous girl kidnapped by a British commander from Tierra del Fuego and is therefore a memorial to imperialism, as the house is dedicated to the cultural and natural landscapes of the indigenous peoples of South America: "Cultural and natural landscapes are portrayed through each creation in an olfactive storytelling composed by a palette of exotic botanical ingredients," writes Bedel on his homepage. As the artisanal production process does not involve filtration, the fragrances may be cloudy.
"Milonga Verde" thematizes the payada, a traditional guitar duel of the Argentine gauchos, in which the players try to play the most eloquent instrumental response to the previously played verse of their 'opponent'. It is a constant alternation of deep affection and losing oneself in sounds, which is represented here olfactorily by initially cool, green, cactus-like fresh, slightly flowery and sour notes of the algarrobo tree. This is accompanied by light woody, slightly sweet, spicy, hay-like notes of the pink-flowering lapacho tree, which answers the algarrobo's verse with hints of mown damp flower meadows before the jacaranda leaf (incidentally the tree from which the guitars are made) takes over again with tart, sharp, greenish woody notes and cool smoke seems to settle into a nocturnal mist. The payada is played at a moderate to low volume throughout the evening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcs2MdIIbIg
(With thanks to Marieposa)
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