What inspired a group of musicians from Belgium to create the only ensemble around the music of a forgotten Argentine tango composer?
To celebrate Eduardo Rovira’s centenary, SONICO embarked in April 2025 on a tour through Argentina — a journey that culminated in Buenos Aires with the recording of their fifth album, ROVIRA 100, featuring the recovery of Rovira’s most emblematic works: Sonico (1969) and Que lo Paren (1975).
THE FUTURE WAS TODAY transforms this material into a powerful staged concert that blurs the lines between live music, cinema, and theatre. The performance unfolds as a visual journey through three imaginative worlds: a fictional 1970s Argentine TV show, a surreal and brutalist retro-futuristic cityscape, and a present-day “reality show” chronicling SONICO’s latest South American tour.
Through immersive video, photomontages, lighting, and narrative monologues, SONICO invites the audience not just to listen, but to step inside Rovira’s visionary universe. This is not a tribute — it’s a time-traveling experience that reframes modern tango as a collective act of radical imagination.
Premiered on November 20, 2025, at the Strombeek Cultural Center in Grimbergen, Belgium.
UPCOMING DATES
03/09/26 Savoy Theater, Helsinki (FI)
18/11/26 CC Maasmechelen (BE)
19/11/26 CC Belgica, Dendermonde (BE)
THE FUTURE WAS TODAY
STAGED CONCERT – 5 MUSICIANS + 1 TECHNICIAN
TECHNICAL SHEET • VISUAL PRESENTATION
AVAILABLE indoors
LENGTH 80 minutes
PART 1: THE PAST
Ritual (Osvaldo Berlingieri) arr. Eduardo Rovira
Opus 16 (Eduardo Rovira)
A Don Alfredo Gobbi (Eduardo Rovira)
Preludio de la guitarra abandonada (Eduardo Rovira)
Sónico (Eduardo Rovira)
PART 2: THE FUTURE
Coral (Astor Piazzolla)
Tango para Charrua (Eduardo Rovira)
Tango para Ernesto (Eduardo Rovira)
PART 3: THE PRESENT
Chiqui (Alberto Caracciolo)
Efimero (Omar Luppi)
Los Mareados (Juan Carlos Cobián arr. Astor Piazzolla)
Que lo Paren (Eduardo Rovira)
Nace una Ciudad (Omar Valente)
Majo Majú (Eduardo Rovira)
CREDITS
Lysandre Donoso – Bandoneon
Stephen Meyer – Violin
Alejandro Schwarz – Electric Guitar
Ariel Eberstein – Double bass
Ivo De Greef – Piano & Host
Light design: Jean Baptiste De Vooght
Photomontage: Kaloian Santos Cabrera
Video maker: Ramiro Antico
Graphic artist: Emilio Laquidara (1250.design)
PRODUCED BY EL ANTITANGO MANAGEMENT
COPRODUCED BY CULTUURCENTRUM STROMBEEK GRIMBERGEN
WITH THE SUPPORT OF VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAAP