Argentine composer and producer Gustavo Santaolalla is a boundary-leaping kind of guy in just about every way you could (and some you couldn't) imagine. But taking his global tango group Bajofondo to South Korea and Japan is a cultural stretch even for this groundbreaking Latin rock producer (Juanes, Julieta Venegas, Café Tacuba) and Oscar-winning film composer (Brokeback Mountain, Babel). And if that isn't enough musical world straddling, one of Bajofondo's guests in Japan will be Japanese bandoneon player Ryota Komatsu, an artist much admired by tango cognoscenti, whose soulful playing powers Pa' bailar, a song on Bajofondo's latest recording, MarDulce. ''I see myself like a bridge between different things,'' Santaolalla said from his home in Los Angeles. ``Some of that is bringing my Latino heritage and sensibility to...
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