Omsk: A Tango Expedition

The train to Omsk wasn’t too dense, as I was able to sleep half of the trip (about 13 hours long).  When I arrived, there were Irina and Alina waiting for me (vocalist and guitarist of Enamorados tango group). I rented a very nice Airbnb apartment at an incredibly cheap price, not really in the center of the city but very convenient for what I had to do the following days, cause basically I never had to take a taxi. The apartment had everything I needed, spacious, good internet connection, washing machine, and a big supermarket just by crossing the street.

For our concert with Enamorados, I knew I had to learn some new works I’ve never played, but I expected to do it at our rehearsal place (the apartment of the bass player), who had a piano at home. For my very surprise, some hours after I checked in, my friend Alina ring the bell taking an 88 keys piano out of her friend’s car. For me it was unbelievable because not only I had a nice apartment but again a piano at home for practicing!

This time the weather was quite bad, it rained for 3 days in a row, with temperatures from 9 to 17 degrees, but I could enjoy with my local friends a very nice day at an open air festival in one of the few sunny days.

We had 3 rehearsals together before the day of the show where we practiced some Piazzolla and Gardel works, and the tango “Lejos de Buenos Aires”, which I composed during my studies at the conservatory of Barcelona.

The day of the concert arrived, it was a very nice restaurant also walking distance from my apartment, with a beautiful white piano in the stage. We played for about 1h 30m, and the response was great! Lots of photos requested and very nice comments after the concert.

The next day I woke up and felt very happy when seeing the comments people left in the social network event:

https://vk.com/topic-169513166_38516624

Now it’s time to move forward. Next week has to do with my composition project about what I’ll write in my next post.