The American Clavé Recordings Astor Piazzolla SKU: 0075597915297 Barcode: 0075597915297 79.00 £79.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Nonesuch Released Date: 6th May 2022 Buying Format: 3LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Nonesuch Records releases a three-LP set of albums from the great Argentine composer, bandleader, and bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla – originally released by American Clavé Records in the 1980s and reissued by Nonesuch more than two decades ago. Astor Piazzolla: The American Clavé Recordings marks the first time this landmark trio of albums – Tango: Zero Hour, La Camorra: The Solitude of Passionate Provocation, and The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) – is being issued as a set, now remastered, and is the first time the albums have been available on vinyl since their initial release on American Clavé. The set’s liner notes include original and new notes by the albums’ producer and American Clavé founder Kip Hanrahan as well as an in-depth essay from journalist Fernando González, who translated and annotated Piazzolla’s memoirs and wrote liner notes for four of his albums. Originally scheduled for release in Piazzolla’s centenary year 2021, the set now inaugurates the beginning of the second century of Piazzolla’s lasting influence. González says in his 2021 note: “In May 1986, Astor Piazzolla, the creator of new tango, entered the studio in Manhattan with his Quintet to record Zero Hour. It would turn out to be the first of three consequential recordings that would finally establish him in the United States and strengthen his standing around the world.” Though Piazzolla was known as the progenitor of “nuevo tango”, Hanrahan says in his new liner note, “I’m not sure whether Astor really liked or loved or hated the tango. I think he loved the music his father surrounded the family with as the sound of what they’d left behind in Argentina… It was the audible identity that made them different from the Italian and Jewish families that lived around them on the Lower East Side of New York, where Astor grew up. “When I listen to Astor, I’m not really listening to the tango re-imagined and saved by a brilliant composer, I’m listening to the music of a turbulent, complex, restless, brilliant man rearranging the vocabulary of his father’s dreams.” Tango: Zero Hour was recorded in New York with Piazzolla and his classic New Tango Quintet, which worked with Piazzolla from 1978 to 1988 and included Fernando Suárez Paz (violin), Pablo Ziegler (piano), Horacio Malvicino, Sr. (guitar), and Héctor Console (bass). González says of Tango: Zero Hour: “These are demanding pieces, yet the individual playing remains consistently precise and intense throughout. As an ensemble, Piazzolla and his New Tango Quintet sound focused, loose, and forceful. They are in total control of the music and prove it by casually changing direction, moods, and dynamics on a dime. Piazzolla immediately recognized that the quintet had accomplished something special, believing it to be ‘the greatest record I’ve made in my entire life. We gave our souls to [it].’” Tango Zero Hour was originally released by American Clavé in 1986. First released in 1989, La Camorra was recorded in New York in May 1988, also with the New Tango Quintet. González writes: “La Camorra not only delivers a late masterpiece, the three-part title piece, but it also serves as a marker completing two significant chapters in Piazzolla’s life and musical career. Set up as three separate but related pieces, La Camorra is more than a summation. It suggests Piazzolla reflecting on tango, now lovingly, conjuring old players and styles, now angrily fighting with tango history, demanding his place in it. “In Zero Hour style, Piazzolla completes the program with versions of pieces he had already recorded, polished to a gleam. The Quintet is again in excellent form. Featuring a substantial new work and impeccable performances of four repertoire pieces, La Camorra is a high-water mark in Piazzolla’s discography. It was also Piazzolla’s last recording with the New Tango Quintet.” The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night, also originally released in 1989, was recorded in New York in September 1987, with an ensemble that included Fernando Suárez Paz (violin), Pablo Zinger (piano), Paquito D’Rivera (alto sax, clarinet), Andy González (bass), and Rodolfo Alchourrón (electric guitar). González says, “The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado), recorded by Piazzolla without the Quintet, occupies a unique place in his discography. It is based on the music Piazzolla composed for Tango Apasionado, a dance and theater piece created by Graciela Daniele based on stories by Argentine short-story writer, poet, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges. But what truly sets The Rough Dancer apart in Piazzolla’s discography is how it was created. Up to this point, the studio for Piazzolla had been, for the most part, a means to document the music he was producing. But [at this point], Piazzolla was intrigued by the idea of using the studio as a creative tool, perhaps even for composing and arranging.” Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, which incorporates classical forms and jazz elements into the traditional tango, was so controversial at its advent that Piazzolla had his life threatened on numerous occasions and was even exiled from his country. The traditional tango, born out of the bordellos of Buenos Aires in the way that jazz began in New Orleans, had been haunted by its origins for decades. Piazzolla, with his innovative style and desire to legitimize the tango and bring it to a serious musical audience, changed the face of the music forever. When Tango: Zero Hour was first released, Piazzolla was at the peak of his powers. The Village Voice called Piazzolla ‘a modern master’ while the New York Times said, ‘To hear Mr. Piazzolla’s tangos as musical marvels is beside the point. As edgy lines and long-breathed tunes defy and embrace one another, the tangos suggest that even in the modern world, romance survives.’ Nonesuch’s Piazzolla catalog features a number of other significant recordings, including Piazzolla’s Concierto para bandoneón and Tres tangos, released in 1988, and his last recording, Five Tango Sensations, which was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and released in 1991. In addition, Piazzolla’s first composition for Kronos, Four, For Tango, appears on their 1988 release Winter Was Hard. The music of Piazzolla is also featured on four Nonesuch recordings by the violinist Gidon Kremer: Hommage à Piazzolla, El Tango, Tracing Astor, and Eight Seasons; these also were released as a box set, entitled Hommage à Piazzolla: The Complete Astor Piazzolla Recordings. Artist Astor Piazzolla Genre World / Fusion Label Nonesuch Buying Options 3LP Format 3LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings LP1 – Tango: Zero Hour Tanguedia III Milonga Del Angel Concierto Para Quinteto Milonga Loca Michelangelo '70 Contrabajísimo Mumuki LP2 – La Camorra: The Solitude of Passionate Provocation Soledad * La Camorra I La Camorra II La Camorra III Fugata Sur: Los Sueños (South: The Dreams) Sur: Regreso al Amor (South: A Return to Love) LP3 – The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night Prologue (Tango Apasionado) Milonga for Three Street Tango Milonga Picaresque Knife Fight Leonora's Song Prelude to the Cyclical Night (Part One) Butcher's Death Leijia's Game Milonga for Three (Reprise) Bailongo Leonora's Love Theme Finale (Tango Apasionado) Prelude to the Cyclical Night (Part Two) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from World / Fusion View Product Quick View Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán Mambo Sinuendo World / Fusion | Nonesuch | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th November 2018 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán Mambo Sinuendo £36.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Nonesuch SKU: 075597928402 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Petite Noir La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful World / Fusion | Double Six | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 2nd October 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Petite Noir La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful £19.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Double Six SKU: DS100LP Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions Jazz | Concord | 5LP Released 8th March 2019 £165.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions £165.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord SKU: 7205362 Formats: 5LP Released Date: 8th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Zucchero Zucchero Rock And Pop | London Records | 1LP Released 15th April 2024 £16.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Zucchero Zucchero £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: London Records SKU: nn284622 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Joe King Kologbo & The High Grace Sugar Daddy World / Fusion | Strut Original Masters | 1LP Released 10th February 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe King Kologbo & The High Grace Sugar Daddy £25.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Strut Original Masters SKU: STRUT150LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marcos Valle Marcos Valle World / Fusion | Mr Bongo | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st May 2021 £16.00 - £22.00 Select options Marcos Valle Marcos Valle £16.00 - £22.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Mr Bongo Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st May 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Fela Kuti Live! with Ginger Baker World / Fusion | Partisan Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th October 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fela Kuti Live! with Ginger Baker £21.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Partisan Records SKU: KFR2003-3 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View William Onyeabor Who Is William Onyeabor World / Fusion | Luaka Bop | 3LP Released 28th October 2013 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders William Onyeabor Who Is William Onyeabor £26.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Luaka Bop SKU: 8089900791 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 28th October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fela Kuti Underground System World / Fusion | Knitting Factory | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 13th December 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fela Kuti Underground System £17.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Knitting Factory SKU: KFR2045-1 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th December 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Mambo Man OST Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 2LP Released 18th February 2022 £39.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Various Artists Mambo Man OST £39.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: TUMI023 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 18th February 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in World / Fusion Start again
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