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Tango’s current popularity, like that of Brazilian bossa nova, is based on its status as romantic lifestyle music that’s exotic—if you want it to be. Chris Moss, the compiler of Think Global: Tango, a new benefit comp for the British famine-relief organization Oxfam, toys with this perception. His choices are gorgeous, idiosyncratic and often raucous, even when he ropes in a few of the artists (Otros Aires, Carlos Libedinsky, Tanghetto) that lay on DJ-inspired beats. The soul of the disc, however, belongs to rustic acousticians such as the singers Juan Carlos Cáceres, Suni Paz and Daniel Melingo, as well as pianist Gustavo Beytelmann, who traffic in an earthy modernism that would make nuevo tango icon Astor Piazzolla (whose “Oblivion” gets the lyrical treatment from Quarteto Suárez Paz) proud. — K. Leander Williams
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