Biography

Plaza Francia’s first album A New Tango Songbook (2014) featured twelve songs fronted by the remarkable Catherine Ringer, lead singer of theLes Rita Mitsouko, one of the most famous and influential bands in the history of French rock music. The album was a critical success and Plaza Francia v1 performed over 100 concerts, mostly in the Francophone world. Now, Müller & Makaroff’s instinct is to go deeper, rather than sideways. Plaza Francia is mutating into the Plaza Francia Orchestra, an assemblage of the finest young tango musicians in Paris, which is another way of saying among the finest in the world. Through the aperture of the Plaza Francia - a real square in the chic Recoleta district of Buenos Aires that was built to celebrate the long-standing and often revolutionary friendship between France and Argentina, where Makaroff used to hang out with his counter-cultural mates, smoking weed and talking about a an altogether different revolution back in the 1970s - Müller & Makaroff are creating a multi-disciplinary portrait of their own ‘tango’ world. You could even call Plaza Francia a ‘concept’, like Bootsy Collins’s Mothership - an idea that blossoms into an entire world, where creative energy, raw sophistication, passionate elegance and careless melancholy cohabit and collide. A place where tango can live and breathe in all its multi-faceted glory. A place where time itself dances the tango and becomes human again.