The sexteto tipico Loca Bohemia pays homage to Julio and Francisco De Caro, 
by playing their compositions. In the 1920s, Julio and Francisco De Caro 
revolutionized the way tango was written and interpreted. They are the 
founders of the “guardia nueva” (new guard) movement and Astor Piazzola’s piece 
“Decarissimo” is dedicated to them. Composers and arrangers who enchanted 
“las 40” (the 1940s, the Golden Age of tango) claimed the “Decareana” influence. 
Osvaldo Pugliese posited that his style was directly inspired from the De Caros.

Julio and Francisco’s father José De Caro, who had been director of the Scala 
of Milano, wished his two sons to become accomplished musicians. He trained 
them to be instrumentalists grounded in composition, harmony, counterpoint 
and fugue. They chose to dedicate their talent to tango, to their father’s despair 
(he did not talk to them for 20 years following this decision).

Their legacy is an amazingly rich repertoire, in which the instruments’ voices 
unite in gay counterpoints and variations.

Because of their training in classical music, the De Caro brothers raised tango 
to the level of a scholarly music. Thanks to them, tango also began to be performed 
in concerts.

Charlie Chaplin witnessed the concert of the De Caro sextet in Nice in 1928, 
after which he walked up to the musicians and told them: y!!” ar

I transcribed this music from the 1927 and 1928 recordings, allowing me to 
appreciate it even better (unfortunately, the original music sheets are lost; 
the sexteto Loca Bohemia is therefore the only orchestra in the world to play 
this music in its original arrangements). This music, which I have been listening 
to for a long time, touches me through its lightness and profoundness, through 
its humour, its subtleties and its softness…

These qualities are so seldom found nowadays…

Hoping to be true to them…