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Enter the whole world of tango through one song

Identify the exact recording, read its story, lyrics and lunfardo, then follow the music into the orchestras and people behind it.

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读句歌词 · A line of tango100 首歌 · 中英译文 · Lunfardo

Three ways to build a milonga

One Spotify playlist, one YouTube playlist, and one path for recording your own whole milonga.

3 paths
  • 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.

Far more than song identification

Recordings, language, people and living tango—each doorway leads further in.

Tanda Builder From one exact recording, find the other three Use orchestra, period, style, vocal lineup and reviewed tanda co-occurrence to rank explainable companions. Tanda graph See which songs DJs actually put together Explore co-occurrence, order and complete tanda evidence from reviewed public playlists. 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. 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. Tango Where? Find the local tango wherever you land Choose a city for locally maintained calendars, community groups and established major festivals. Milonga passport Keep the nights you danced Collect stamps, keep private notes and share your tango travels. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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  • 50 searches or reads
  • 10 live identifications
  • 2 imports · 5 milonga analyses
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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.

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

TandaClara's original interface, writing and curation are created by @busybuffer with rights reserved. Please use the feedback form above to obtain permission before quoting, republishing or otherwise reusing them.

Public project journal

The public GitHub journal documents how TandaClara evolves, with detailed module notes and monthly, weekly, and daily updates. It contains no app source code, databases, full lyrics, or personal data.

Read the project journal on GitHub ↗

Songs, recordings, lyrics, images and third-party reference material remain the property of their respective rights holders.

Some English and Chinese lyric translations are AI-drafted and labeled as such. They may contain errors and remain subject to human review.

AI disclaimer: Much of the writing, translation, and analysis in TandaClara was generated by AI. It may be incomplete, inaccurate, or wrong; please verify important information independently.

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