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Tango Zero Hour [Import]

~ Astor Piazzolla & New Tango Qu (Artist)

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Audio CD (Nov 18 2005)
Original Release Date: April 23 1992
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Import
Label: Nonesuch
ASIN: B00000DC7J
Other Editions: Audio CD

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

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Astor Piazzolla lived and died as tango's bad boy, having almost single handedly invented the music's vanguard, the form known as tango nuevo. It took Piazzolla decades to reach his unequivocal apex, which is captured flawlessly on Tango Zero Hour. When this recording was cut in 1986, some of the compositions Piazzolla and his quintet cued up were standards for the band. Whether it was an epiphanic period or not, the recording captures an ensemble alchemically transforming seriously complex works into goose-bump-inducing electricity. Pianist Pablo Ziegler brings his jazz background into the mix with jarring urgency, just as violinist Fernando Suárez Paz makes quavering classical inflections sing amid Piazzolla's here tender and there blistering bandoneon. For a peak experience in music that challenges the ear to dance and the body to fully listen, look no further than this recording. --Andrew Bartlett

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5.0 out of 5 stars Passion, Fire, Soul, Nov 20 2003

By	none (Goleta, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Wow. This is kind of music that can be only created by someone who's live a lifetime of love and joy, regret and sorrow. This is the music of being human. I don't know how else to describe it except that listening to this album was a transcendental experience. I hope you will give this album a shot because you will be doing a travesty to yourself if you don't.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER'S TANGO..., Nov 20 2003

By	Larry L. Looney (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

...but your father might have liked it, if he listened with an open mind. For me - this is absolutely one of the most stunning recordings I've ever heard. Piazzolla (bandone�n) and the musicians he assembled for this quintet (Fernando Su�rez Paz, violin; Pablo Ziegler, piano; Horacio Malvicino, Sr., guitar; and H�ctor Console, bass) gave the performances of their collective lifetimes when they made this album, recorded in NYC in May of 1986. It is the zenith of Piazzolla's career - and that's saying a lot, considering the contributions he made to music in his lifetime.

The music is nuevo tango - the traditional soul of tango, full of the emotion that it has always carried (and with which it carries its listeners and dancers), charged and reborn with all of the grit and grime that exists 'at street level'. Gosh - if the tangos we're used to hearing and seeing in the old films made your grandmother blush, this would most certainly put her on the floor in a dead faint. The music is intricately composed - but at the same time, it is FELT in the depths of the soul. There is nothing whatsoever cold and emotionless about it. The musicians themselves are of the highest caliber - some are classically trained, some have their roots in jazz, but they are all under the spell of Piazzolla's vision. The quiet passages purr and stroke the senses, the more strident ones will pick the listener up and toss them around. The music will make you want to close your eyes and drift away one moment, then have you sweating the next.

Piazzolla made one more recording with this group, LA CAMORRA, and one featuring some of the same players (but not all of them), THE ROUGH DANCER AND THE CYCLICAL NIGHT (based on a story by the great Argentinean literary master Jorge Luis Borges). These two are very, very good - but ZERO HOUR is his greatest.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary tango, Feb 1 2004

By	N. Chongsiriwatana "npchong" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This album is incredible.

Piazzolla and the New Tango Quintet play with extraordinary cohesion, grace, nuance, fire, and absolute beauty. They play as one, and they switch sentiments, from tenderness to rage to anxiety to resolve, without warning and without flaw. Listening to this music is like looking through a sonic kaleidoscope. The textures mutate constantly, at times pensive and sparse, at others empassioned and dense. But always full of color and absolutely beautiful.

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