Minino Garay

With Speaking Tango, Minino Garay satisfies a passion for the Spoken word, a form of poetry recited against a backdrop of beats and instrumental improvisations, ancestor of the slam and heir to the fulgurances of the Last Poets or Gil Scot Heron. It also leads to an artistic questioning born 20 years ago. His meeting with the poetess and singer Dana Bryant, the first heroine of the genre, was decisive.

The masterful Argentinean percussionist based in France, steeped in the multicolored flavors of his country's rhythmic traditions and jazz philosophy, combined with the enrichment of his transatlantic experience (Mercedes Sosa, Raul Barboza, Cuarteto Cedron, Jaime Torres, Ibrahim Maalouf, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Richard Galliano, Daniel Mille, Jackie Terrason...) After having scattered his last albums with it, he devotes himself entirely to it here.

On Speaking Tango, Minino Garay makes rare words dance with a deep, tender, sensual or hallucinated voice. He poses them, projects them, declaims them or caresses them with a sincerity without filter.