CHANGO SPASIUK

Accordion virtuoso from the Province of Misiones in the extreme northwest of Argentina, Chango Spasiuk became in three decades the most brilliant representative of Chamamé, the traditional music of this rural remote area between Paraguay and Brazil. This grandson son of Ukrainian migrants exalts this bouncy and poetic folklore, a crossroad of indigenous and Eastern Europe cultures, to raise him to the rank of Argentinian musical treasure. As by his constant link between innovation and tradition, this musical wizard conveys with chamamé a deeply melancholic sensibility that fits closely both popular and academic forms. Universalist.