It’s been 12 years since our first music video and we’ve come full circle with another sensuous Piazzolla tango, this time his dark and brooding Oblivion! (#10YearChallenge #challengeaccepted)
A sense of wistful nostalgia permeates this tango, arguably Piazzolla’s most popular work, as the dancers grasp for the last threads of passion. 😘Our arrangement has Liz circling the piano, exploring the forbidden, and hunting for harmonics on the piano strings (that are impossibly challenging to find!)… all of which played well to the camera.
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
D. H. Lawrence
Whip up a blissfully bitter Tango Amargo cocktail then sit back and enjoy the magnificent melancholy of Oblivion…
Oblivion
Heavy, suddenly they seem heavy
the linen and velvets of your bed
when our love passes to oblivion
Heavy, suddenly they seem heavy
your arms embracing me
formerly in the night
My boat parts, it's going somewhere
people get separated,
I'm forgetting, I'm forgetting
Later, at some other place in a mahogany bar
the violins playing again for us
our song, but I'm forgetting
Later, it splits off to a cheek to cheek
everything becomes blurred and
I'm forgetting, I'm forgetting
Brief, the times seem brief
the countdown of a night
when our love passes to oblivion
Brief, the times seem brief
your fingers running all over
my lifeline.
Without a glance
people are straying off
on a train platform,
I'm forgetting, I'm forgetting
-poem/lyrics by Astor Piazzolla & Angela Denia Tarenzi