Antonio Gavrila - Tango Suite Buenos Aires (2023)

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Title: Tango Suite Buenos Aires
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Zoho Music
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 32:44
Total Size: 154 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Michelangelo 70 (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (03:23)
2. Introducción al Ángel (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (04:43)
3. Prelude en la Noche (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (05:06)
4. Amor Sin Palabras (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (04:45)
5. Tango Suite Buenos Aires, Pt. I: Tristeza (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (01:59)
6. Tango Suite Buenos Aires, Pt. II: Nuevos Tiempos (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (04:12)
7. Tango Suite Buenos Aires, Pt. III: Nostálgico (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (03:39)
8. Tango Suite Buenos Aires, Pt. IV: Todo Piazzolla (feat. Walter Castro, Quique Sinesi & Horacio "Mono" Hurtado) (04:54)

Personnel:

Antonio Gavrila - piano
Walther Castro - bandoneon
Quique Sinesi - guitar
Horacio “Mono” Hurtado - bass

If Nuevo Tango, as Buenos Aires-born composer Astor Piazzolla originally envisioned it, is at the confluence of where jazz meets baroque, Romanian-born pianist-composer Antonio Gavrila is the latest gifted exponent to pick up that mantle. In order to understand the passionate intensity behind the 27-year-old Bucharest native’s Tango Suite Buenos Aires, his auspicious debut on the ZOHO label, one must understand the music of Piazzolla, the profoundly influential Argentinian composer who was both put on a pedestal for revolutionizing the tango and assailed as “the tango assassin” during his lifetime.

Piazzolla, who died in 1992, rewrote the rules of tango in the late ‘50s, first with his Octeto Buenos Aires, which featured two bandoneons, two violins, bass, cello, piano and guitar, and later with his Jazz Tango Quintet. His brand of Nuevo Tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its frequent use of counterpoint, extended harmonies and dissonance, chromaticism, ambiguous tonality, pedal tones and meter changes. He also introduced new instruments that were not previously used in traditional tango music, including flute, saxophone, electric guitar and in the late 1970s a full drum kit, all of which confounded and upset dyed-in-the-wool tango audiences.