Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero

by Astor Piazzolla and The New Tango Quintet

Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: American Clav茅
  • Country: Argentina
  • Length: 58:02
  • Community rating: 4.94/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Astor Piazzolla鈥檚 self-proclaimed masterpiece completely revolutionizes the traditional Argentine tango, fusing its passionate rhythmic core with highly complex jazz improvisation and modern classical dissonance. The intricate interplay between the bandone贸n, violin, and piano creates a fiercely urban, nocturnal, and deeply sentimental atmosphere. It is a technical, avant-garde triumph that elevated tango to the heights of high art.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, complex, avant-garde, technical, chamber, virtuosic, melodic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Tanguedia III
  2. Milonga Del Angel
  3. Concierto Para Quinteto
  4. Milonga Loca
  5. Michelangelo '70
  6. Contrabajissimo
  7. Mumuki

Credits

  • 脕stor Piazzolla - bandoneon, arranger
  • Hector Console - bass
  • Horacio Malvicino - guitar
  • Fernando Suarez Paz - violin
  • Pablo Ziegler - piano
  • Greg Calbi - mastering
  • Jon Fausty - engineer, mixing
  • Kip Hanrahan - producer, engineer
  • Nancy Hanrahan - associate producer
  • Scott Marcus - executive producer
  • Charles Reilly - photography
  • Shawna Stobie - assistant engineer, mixing assistant

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