Category: Jazz

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986)
[2010, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
1.93 GB (ISO) + 1.90 GB (DSF) + 847 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: American Clavé | Cat#: ewsac 1013
Update: Re-uploaded By Request

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. Piazzolla started out auspiciously enough working with one of the brightest lights of the classic tango era, singer Carlos Gardél. After Gardél’s tragic death in 1935 (by turning down an offer to tour with the singer at the age of 13, Piazzolla amazingly avoided the plane crash that killed Gardél), Piazzolla went on to perfect his bandoneón playing in various tango bands during the ’40s and ’50s, eventually studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Continue reading “Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986) [2010, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocación Apasionada (1989) [2010, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
2.01 GB (ISO) + 1.97 GB (DSF) + 908 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: American Clavé | Cat#: ewsac ewsac 1021
Update: Re-uploaded By Request

Astor Piazzolla, who was by far the world’s leading exponent of tango music and a gifted composer as well as a world-class bandoneon player, died in 1992, four years after this album was originally recorded and released on the American Clave label. Continue reading “Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocación Apasionada (1989) [2010, Japan Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”