Over the past 20 years, the researcher and collector Fabio Cernuda has painstakingly compiled data pertaining to the entire discography of tango, from 1902 forward. This is a monumental work unprecedented in Argentina.  After tireless investigation and compilation of information from various sources (recording companies’ catalogues, public and private archives, printed information on original recordings), Cernuda has achieved a complete detailing of all registered phonographic works by tango artists, since the beginnings of the acoustic era until the end of the analog era in 1992.  This work—which names more than 70,000 recordings, the majority with their recording dates and disc numbers among other details—will put an end to years of uncertainty.  Here will reside all known (and unknown) information about the history of tango in recordings.  This work available for consultation will make possible new studies, investigations, and conclusions.  From tango fans to musicians, historians and collectors, sociologists, musicologists, dancers and poets, all will discover something of interest in the pages of the “Complete Discography of Tango.”

 

Fabio Daniel Cernuda Fabio Daniel Cernuda was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Urquiza, on January 23rd, 1969.  When he was six years old, he discovered Carlos Gardel when the film “Cuesta Abajo” appeared on television.  At 12, he began to collect Gardel’s original records and broadened his musical tastes to eventually include Ignacio Corsini, Agustín Magaldi, Azucena Maizani, Ada Falcón and other tango musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s. At 13 years old, he began to study the bandoneon and played for ten years in the Orquesta Juvenil del Tango (Tango Youth Orchestra) directed by Roberto Siri.  In 1997, he founded with Pedro Ochoa the cuartet “Derecho Viejo.” Today he has approximately 6000 shellac and long-play vinyl original records of the periods he admires—with more than a hundred recordings that were “demos” and never released.  He also has a film library of Argentine cinema and Argentine artists filmed abroad which exceeds two thousand titles.  As a researcher, he has dedicated himself to documenting the recordings made in Argentina from 1902 to 1992, not only related to the tango but of all genres. At this time, he is the principal collaborator with TangoVia’s ambitious project to digitize all the related tango material, including recordings, information about recordings, photographs, scores, magazines, etc., all with an extremely high level of technical precision.