There's a new tango master in town. Her name is Yulia Musayelyan. And the town is Boston. Before you start thinking about how many tango practitioners may live in this great American city, all you need to know is that after listening to Oblivion there will surely be many more. Indeed, this is an inspired masterwork that will encourage more musicians to explore the vintage and nuevo forms of tango, and perhaps they'll make a pilgrimage to learn from the maestra herself. Born in Moscow, Russia, Yulia began studying music at the age of four. Along the way, she earned many prestigious recognitions as a flautist such as the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Awards. She later moved to the United States where she is a professor at Berklee College of Music. What's more, Yulia is a prolific performer who has played with the likes of Hector Martignon, Marta Gomez, and Marta Topferova, among others. She has also played on more than 30 albums. On Oblivion, Yulia is joined by a stellar rhythm section to complete the quartet, each of them also on the faculty at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Each member also shares Yulia's cosmopolitan heritage and outlook- pianist Maxim Lubarsky is a native of Ukraine, bassist Fernando Huergo is from Córdoba, Argentina, and Mark Walker is from Chicago, USA. Oblivion is an exquisite production on which you hear familiar and forward as well as anew and afresh. Fuga y Misterio is the well-known Astor Piazzolla number from his 1978 opera Maria de Buenos Aires. Yulia's rendition begins with her searching, solo flute which gains steam with formidable bass lines as to emulate the dynamism of Piazzolla's opera as well as the energy of Buenos Aires itself. The song continues its brisk pace before winding into a ""Misterio,"" a calmer, more tranquil section. Flor de Lino was composed by Hector Stamponi in 1947 in the style of tango vals, which was adapted from the European waltz.
