Tango: Zero Hour

Tango: Zero Hour
Studio album by Ástor Piazzolla
Released September 1986
Recorded May 1986
Sound Ideas Studio, New York City
Genre Nuevo tango
Length 46:07
Label American Clavé
Producer Kip Hanrahan
Professional ratings
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Robert Christgau A−[1]
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Tango: Zero Hour (Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero in Spanish) is an album by Ástor Piazzolla. It was released in September 1986 on American Clavé, and re-released on Pangaea Records in 1988.[2]

Piazzolla considered this his greatest album.[3][4][5] Rolling Stone commented on the Pangaea reissue of the album, comparing Piazzolla's fusion of form, improvisation, and dynamics to contemporary classical music, jazz, and rock & roll, respectively.[6] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice also commented on Piazzolla's fusion of classical and jazz music.[5]

Contents

Track listing

All songs composed by Ástor Piazzolla.

  1. "Tanguedia III" – 4:39
  2. "Milonga del ángel" – 6:31
  3. "Concierto para quinteto" – 9:06
  4. "Milonga loca" – 3:09
  5. "Michelangelo '70" – 2:52
  6. "Contrabajísimo" – 10:19
  7. "Mumuki" – 9:33

Personnel

People involved in the making of this album include:[7]

Technical personnel

References

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Ástor Piazzolla". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=79. 
  2. ^ Azzi, María Susana; Collier, Simon (2000). Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 9780195127775. http://books.google.com/?id=E7d4TowoRxQC&pg=PA259. Retrieved 12 May 2009. 
  3. ^ Cook, Stephen. "Tango: Zero Hour". Allmusic. Macrovision. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r101712. Retrieved 12 May 2009. "Considered by Piazzolla to be his best work, 1986's Tango Zero Hour was the culmination of a career that began in Argentina in the 1930s." 
  4. ^ "Tango: Zero Hour". Nonesuch Records. http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/tango-zero-hour. Retrieved 12 May 2009. "Astor Piazzolla called his recording Tango: Zero Hour 'absolutely the greatest record I've made in my entire life.'" 
  5. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (2 June 1987). "Christgau's Consumer Guide: June 2, 1987". The Village Voice. ISSN 0042-6180. http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv6-87.php. Retrieved 12 May 2009. "Piazzolla [...] claims this is the best of his 40 albums. [...] True semipop, dance music for the cerebellum, with the aesthetic tone of a jazz-classical fusion Gunther Schuller never dreamed." 
  6. ^ Rolling Stone (Wenner Media). ISSN 0035-791X. "Piazzolla's Argentine 'New Tango' fusion brazenly combines structural ploys from contemporary classical music and the improvisatory daring of jazz, heating the mix with swooping dynamics worthy of rock & roll" 
  7. ^ "Tango: Zero Hour – Credits". Allmusic. Macrovision. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r101712/credits. Retrieved 12 May 2009.