memory
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- 50 searches or reads
- 10 live identifications
- 2 imports · 5 milonga analyses
Search
Find a recording by its title, a line of its lyrics, the orchestra, or the singer.Not sure what to type? See three examples
Identify what is playing
Record six seconds to look for the song, then compare possible recording versions in your workspace.What you get once a song is identified
Recordings
The same title and orchestra can still mean a different take
Compare dates, singers, labels, catalogue numbers and matrices to identify the exact recording.
Build a whole milonga
Bring in a playlist or record the night as it happens, then see how it actually divided into tandas.
Three ways to build a milonga
One Spotify playlist, one YouTube playlist, and one path for recording your own whole milonga.
- Running order preserved
- Automatic tanda grouping
- Exact-recording matches
Choosing the three paths…
External playlists are inspected before import; your own whole milonga opens the personal workspace to start or continue recording.
Picked for you
One hundred songs worth reading, a doorway out of whatever you were listening to, and a few picks that need an account.
Behind the words
Lyrics, translations, lunfardo, the recurring worlds tango sings about, and the city inside them.
Lyric culture
Enter the recurring worlds inside tango songs
Explore reviewed themes such as gaucho memory, lunfardo and candombe through complete lyric variants, words in context, images and public sources.
Buenos Aires lyric map
Walk through the city hidden inside tango lyrics
Choose a barrio, follow its songs and compare historical photographs with the streets that came after them.
Connections
Which songs DJs actually put together, and who played with, wrote for or taught whom.
Tanda graph
See which songs DJs actually put together
Explore co-occurrence, order and complete tanda evidence from reviewed public playlists.
People cards
Meet the people who shaped tango
Browse source-backed cards by instrument, role, place and life story, then follow each person into their recordings and relationships.
Hear how it works
Learn to follow the pulse, the phrases and the returns — beginning with one recording.
Musicality
Learn how to listen, beginning with one tango
Hold the pulse, hear phrases and voices, then place each idea back into El choclo through eight short listening passes.
Listening score
See one exact recording phrase by phrase
Play El Flete with phrase returns, recording-derived accents, melody contour and separated listening layers.
Musicality resources
Keep listening beyond TandaClara
Thirty-three curated paths through listening, interactive tools, lyrics, blogs, courses, orchestra studies and music research.
Travel and milongas
Where tango is danced tonight, the cities a song can open, and the nights you have danced.
Tango Where?
Find the local tango wherever you land
Choose a city for locally maintained calendars, community groups and established major festivals.
My tango footprints
Light up the places you dance.
Turn your map and lit cats into a shareable image.
One city, one tango
Follow a song. Discover a city.
From Paris to Montevideo: local musicians, musical roots and places behind the lyrics.
Milonga passport
Keep the nights you danced
Collect stamps, keep private notes and share your tango travels.
Games and cats
Listening games, milonga bingo, and the city cats who host them.
Bingo
Milonga bingo · lines & cats
Music, dancing and random challenges. Revisit a night and take home a city cat.
Cat, where?
Guess the city with tango cats
Ten cats, ten cities. Follow the clues in each illustration and take a little tango trip.
Tango games
Listen, guess, and play again
Every listening game in one place, including the ones the cats host.
Sign in, and what works without an account
Try the full workspace. No account needed.
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Browser cache or account sync
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Install it like an app
TandaClara on your home screen
Install it like an app
Open TandaClara without browser chrome, from the same icon as your other apps.
On iPhone or iPad: Safari Share → Add to Home Screen.
Step by step
Leave a note, and the beta terms
After the cortina…
After the cortina, leave a note
Bring a bug, a wish, a lunfardo correction, or the tanda that made you refuse to sit down.
Beta privacy, limits, and use How the six seconds of audio are processed, what the site stores, and the limits of this personal beta.
Author & permission
One earcup slipped aside? Shh—the TDJ duo Busy and Buffer are listening to those six seconds for you.
Your workspace
Find a recording. Keep what you hear.
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Milonga
Your library
Tools & exploration
Build a tanda, read a lyric, follow a connection.
Build a tanda
Choose recordings and find what belongs together.
Lyrics & people
Words, places and the people behind the music.
Listen more closely
Follow the pulse, the phrase and the score.
Travel & milongas
Find a dance floor and remember the places you danced.
More discoveries & games
Take another route through the music.
