Live in Colonia 1984', a unique time document. A double album that represents a highlight in Piazzolla's musical repertoire.

The revolutionary of tango, Astor Piazzolla, an internationally acclaimed leading light in his own lifetime, became the epitome and expression of Latin American rhythm, dance and passion for us. Tango is not merely the dance, once frowned upon by bourgeoisie, danced in the dockland pubs of the suburbs and the poor districts of Buenos Aires, which then found entry into the greatest concert halls after Astor Piazzolla reformed it - tango is an experience of life.
From the very beginning, Astor Piazzolla's tango music was an important source of inspiration for many musicians. He's oeuvre has been honoured by a large range of adaptations and arrangements worldwide, among them popular interpretations by Italian diva of song Milva, but also jazzy arrangements by Chick Corea, Gerry Mulligan, Gary Burton and Richard Galliano. Only rarely has a composer of the 20th century enjoyed a similar reception in such stylistic variety - Piazzolla's music found its entrance into pop music, folklore, jazz and classical music.

After decades of worldwide tango reception, the current find in the radio broadcasting archive of the Deutsche Welle is all the nicer. Live in Colonia 1984 is a true discovery, a live concert recording by the Deutsche Welle in the Cologne studio from the year 1984 with the original Quinteto Tango Nuevo, consisting of world class musicians Pablo Ziegler (piano) Fernando Suárez Paz (violin), Oscar Lopez Ruiz (guitar), Héctor Console (double bass) und Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon).
'This is the music of Argentina, of the city of Buenos Aires - the new tango that we began playing in 1960 with this quintet's same cast almost 25 years ago, and which we are still playing to this very day.

In 1960, no one understood the music I played because it was 'crazy' music - it was no traditional tango, no old-fashioned tango everyone knew. In fact, it was just an attempt to play good music, the essence of my country and first of all the essence of the city of Buenos Aires. We had a lot of difficulties, because in 1960, the people didn't understand this. Still today, in 1984, they don't understand what we are doing.'

When Astor Piazzolla turned to his audience with these words on November 14, 1984, during the Deutsche Welle concert in Cologne on the last day of his European tour, he and his Quinteto had already given more than 30 concerts in the great halls of Europe's centres. They had all been sold out. The supposed irony of his words comes from the fact that on the one hand he had been admired since the 60s as the most popular tango composer and bandoneon virtuoso, and on the other hand had been slandered as a traitor in his native country of Argentina, the cradle of tango, in a way almost unimaginable today.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Biyaya
• Caliente
• Lunfardo
• Decarisimo
• Milonga del Ángel
• La Muerte del Ángel
• La Resurrección del Ángel
• Speech

Disc 2:

• Tristezas de un Doble A
• Escualo
• Adiós Nonino
• Contraataque
• Mumuki
• Miguel Angelo
• Chin-Chin

Additional Details

Label: Intuition

Genre: Folk

Run Time: 100:42 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/11/25

UPC: 750447334328