With her new album Todo Tiempo Pasado, Argentine bassist, composer, and ethnomusicologist Laura Camacho reinvents tango for the modern world — honoring its deep roots while daring to explore its limitless future. Out November 28, 2025, the album showcases the Laura Camacho Tango Project and features special guests Emiliano Messiez and Ariel Pirotti, both Latin GRAMMY® nominees.
The result is a genre-defying celebration of musical universality — connecting tango’s past, present, and future through the prism of Camacho’s global perspective. The album traverses folk, classical, jazz, pop, and contemporary tango, creating a vibrant sonic mosaic where tradition meets innovation.
“At its heart, Todo Tiempo Pasado is about connection,” says Camacho. “It’s about honoring the music that shaped me while opening tango to new interpretations — emotionally, culturally, and stylistically.”
The tracklist reflects that wide-reaching vision. Alongside Camacho’s own compositions — the introspective “Todo Tiempo Pasado” and the evocative “ECOS” — listeners will find works by tango icons Astor Piazzolla (Adiós Nonino, Libertango) and Mariano Mores, as well as Pirotti’s dynamic “Tifón.” There’s also a haunting double bass solo rendition of “Milonga Triste,” and two strikingly original tango-inspired reimaginings of pop classics: Britney Spears’ “Tóxico” and Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.”
Each track offers a different lens on tango’s expressive power — from its dramatic pulse and emotional weight to its playful rhythmic elasticity. With arrangements that weave together bandoneon-like phrasing, string textures, and jazz harmonies, Camacho’s ensemble creates a sound that is at once cinematic and intimate.
Camacho’s story begins in Buenos Aires, where tango’s pulse first resonated through her grandmother’s living room in San Telmo. After formative years at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory, she performed widely, even opening for the legendary Mariano Mores — a performance she describes as “life-changing.” Later, she moved to the United States to pursue advanced studies in double bass and ethnomusicology, eventually earning two graduate degrees and establishing herself as both a performer and scholar.
Now based in Texas, where she’s pursuing her doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin, Camacho’s research focuses on tango communities across Latin America and the U.S., exploring how tradition adapts across borders. Her artistic practice mirrors that research: collaborative, deeply rooted, and always evolving.
Having collaborated with artists including Horacio Romo, Pablo Agri, Pablo Estigarribia, Julián Peralta, and others, Camacho has become a vital voice in contemporary tango — bridging academia and artistry, Buenos Aires and Austin, history and reinvention.
With Todo Tiempo Pasado, she invites listeners into a space where tango breathes freely — where the past doesn’t fade, but resonates anew.