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
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
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]

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]

• The New Tango Quintet:
  • Ástor Piazzolla – bandoneón, arranger
  • Hector Console – bass
  • Horacio Malvicino – guitar
  • Fernando Suarez Paz – violin
  • Pablo Ziegler – piano

Technical personnel

• 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

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.