Astor Piazzolla & New Tango Quintet - Tango: Zero Hour
|
Our Price: $18.98 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $9.96 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Tango: Zero Hour
Free Music Review: Extraordinary tango
Hit: 5 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Passion, Fire, Soul
Hit: 5 Stars
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.Free Music Review: THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER'S TANGO...
Hit: 5 Stars
...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.
Free Music Review: Best nuevo tango album
Hit: 5 Stars
The first i bought and by far the best of PIazzola's nuevo tango record i heard. The sound is great and there is no single piece that will stuck in your mind for a long long time.An all time classic. Not for dancers ofcourse but certainly for passionate nights.
Free Music Review: This is the real hardcore.
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is very good. The whole thing is amazingly composed and aranged. There is little to say besides that fact that is basically perfect. Its a good album for younger listeners to get into because its powerful and fast and interesting. But it contains a depth that older listiners will never get tired of. Also very atmospheric. A must have.