Organito de la Tarde -- Cátulo Castillo -- Tango

Fuego Blanco with Kinzey Alexander (flute) & Maggie Ferguson (bandoneon) Cátulo Castillo, with his lyrics, dug the subjects that always haunted tango: the painful nostalgia for what is lost, love sufferings and the decline of life. Instead he neither had space for humor nor for the unworried stroke, and nor even for the rhythmic emphasis of milonga. The word “último“ (last) appears in several titles of his works, as testimony of that parade of farewells that runs through his lyrics, where there is always pity for those who suffer and a frequent resort to alcohol as an escape. Cátulo did not allow himself, as lyricist, a defined profile, so he on that respect is closer to Enrique Cadícamo than to Homero Manzi. He often neither scratches the poetic quality of the latter nor the whipping power of observation of Enrique Santos Discépolo, but he honored the genre with a vast influential work, being as well outstanding his contributio