Eduardo Makaroff, argentinian, born in Buenos Aires on april 4th 1954, is one of the fundators of the trio Gotan Project, who brought the large universe of tango to a particular combination with electronic music.
It’s in 1990 that Eduardo Makaroff arrive to Paris to begin his french carreer, which is the continuity of an already rich argentinian carreer. Eduardo Makaroff has composed and interpreted movies’songs and credits of TV shows. He has also presented and produced shows for television and radio.
During his early beginings in Paris, Eduardo Makaroff creates the band Mano a Mano, with which he will produce the show… It has been very well welcomed in France and all over Europe. He then becomes leader of orchestra of a very well known tango parisian club, the dancing “La Coupole”. While this guitarist-singer-author-composer (he has already made many albums) was making a tour all over Europe with his band, Tango Mano, he kept composing and producing songs for the audiovisual (sector).
In 1999, Eduardo Makaroff becomes partner with Christophe Muller and Philippe Cohen-Solal to explore new musicals ways and give a different direction to the traditional music of his original country : the band Gotan Project has born.
When Gérard Lo Monaco arrives to Paris on the “Le Laennec”, a liner of Messageries maritims, the first artist whith argentinian origins that he meets is Jérôme Savary, founder of the Big Magic Circus and his sad animals.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, Gérard Lo Monaco becomes, thanks to his unexpected encounter, street musician and tumbler, which doesn’t stop him from accepting all the offers of the show world in 1968…Poster designer, leaflet drawer and graphist, he has such a fury for the needs of the theatral collective that he co-funds the very well known “The tiny screw of culture in the big mecanism of revolution”.
In 1972 thanks to his entry in the edition world as a messenger (on foot) in the Universitaries’Press of France, he becomes graphist, employed by the vanguardist editors (Tchou, Balland) and collaborates with Roland Topor, Jean-Jacques Pauvert and Delpire. But the nostalgy of travel resurfaces and he traveles, along with different compagnies of itinerary bands, across cities and towns, making his marionette shows. He then funds his own compagny, Le Charivari. He makes a tour all over France and Europe travelling with a carousel. Until 1980 he’s manufacturer, painter-decorator in dummy window at the National Theater of Chaillot and at the Opera of Paris, he then comes back to the book business as an artistic director.
He also makes bills for plays (Offenbach, directed by Jean-Michel Ribes) and for that, receives the price of the best bill, awarded by the museum of Decoratives Arts. In 2001, Charles Trenet asks him to create his last bill campaign so as to bid farwell to the stage, at room Pleyel.
He created jacket discs for Les Négresses Vertes, La Mano Negra and Renaud, for who he also created the scenery of the Hell Tour in 2002/2003.
Gérard Lo Monaco meets an other Argentinian in Paris, Eduardo Makaroff, who gives him a few tango guitar’s lessons.
Together they created the label Mañana, dedicated to the creation in tango and to the developpment of the argentinian music in the world.
Text by Sergio Makaroff
