A simple setting: table, glass of wine... and musicians who converse.
THE PROTAGONISTS
CHINO LABORDE, voice
Just the best 'cantor de tango' of Buenos Aires. At the turn of the 21st century, Chino Laborde was the recognizable voice of the first tango-rock group, the Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro, with whom he toured the world. He would retain from this adventure a taste for the night and the stage, which he used to embody key figures in the history of tango in musicals, theatre pieces, movies and Argentine television.
For the past ten years, this total character, a charismatic singer but also an actor, has been adored by the tango dancers all over the world for whom he performs with the best orchestras (La Sans souci, Solo Tango, La Disarliana, etc.) as well as by fans of intimate guitar-voice concerts when he brings forgotten tangos back into fashion, in a sort of archaeology of popular culture from Buenos Aires.
As it is with the Tablao, when each song is a story, a piece of life, and the opportunity for a unique interpretation: a crooner with a warm voice, a popular singer with unbridled banter, a full-of-spleen poet or a rock-sta!.
Nominated for the Premio Konex Best Tango Singer 2005-2015.
FRANCO LUCIANI, harmonica
Between Jazz and tango, Franco is the most incredible harmonica player of his generation. This multi-award-winning virtuoso has already participated in concerts and recordings with great international artists such as Mercedes Sosa, Gotan Project, Fito Paez, Raúl Carnota and Lila Downs. He is the worthy and unique successor of Hugo Diaz, himself a reference in terms of tango on the harmonica.
Solo, in a duo with guitar, or with an orchestra, he embodies with a unique organicity and intimacy the tango classics and is a master in the art of weaving a special intimacy with the public, either milongueros or non-dancer listeners.
The 100% tango and yet totally jazz pulsation, and its mind-blowing swing prove once again to what extent tango, a syncretism born on the banks of the Rio de la Plata, is nothing other than a blues.
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Latin Grammy Miami Nominee 2025, Premio Gardel 2021
RUDI FLORES, guitar
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The Maestro. With a Machiavellian swing but also a subtlety based on a perfect knowledge of tradition, Rudi's guitar playing is virtuoso. Around this hellishly powerful backbone, the voices of tango and all its possibilities wind and open up.
Originally from Corrientes, on the borders of Paraguay and Brazil, Rudi Flores is a major reference in Argentine guitar. Son of the composer and bandoneonist Avelino Flores, Rudi, in a duo with his brother, the accordionist Nini Flores, now deceased, exported to Buenos Aires and then introduced to Europe the musical tradition of the north-east of Argentina of chamamé, but also the heritage of guitar tangos, those of the early ages, before the bandoneon, a tango still close to the countryside. He mixes all this heritage masterfully with innovative compositions
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Premio Gardel 2019, Charles Cros Academy Prize 2015…
MOSCATO LUNA, guitar
The founder of the ‘Guitarras en el Tango’ festival in Buenos Aires, Moscato is a virtuoso and well-travelled guitarist who has been sharing the stage with El Chino Laborde for many years.
His playing is also influenced by related forms such as flamenco, giving his guitar a unique touch.
RAUL KIOKIO, guitar
Raul is one of the most original guitarist of the current tango scene. With a classical background (began his studies with Esteban Morgado at the age of 15, then with Maestro Abel Carlevaro), He stands out for his singular understanding of harmony and his special technique, which gives him the aura of an extraordinary improviser.
Living in Spain, he is the favorite accompanist of the harmonica player Franco Luciani and has accompanied artists such as Vinicio Caposella, Luis Salinas, Paloma San Basilio, Mavi Diaz, Juan Falú, Federico Lechner, Javier Masso ‘Caramelo’, etc.
SANDRA RUMOLINO, voice
A tango diva, based in France since 1983, she has traveled the world with the Grand Orchestre de Tango de Juan José Mosalini as a soloist and regularly takes up the title role of Maria de Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla with prestigious orchestras of the Old Continent. With an immense career, she has recorded with the most renowned tango musicians in Europe.
She foundedf the Bordeaux Tango Festival.