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Adios nonino
Tango by Astor Piazzolla
In 1958 Piazzolla settled in New York, where he lived very hard circumstances. Of that unhappy period is his jazz-tango experiment, which he himself criticized severely –maybe in excess- because of the commercial concession it implied. But when back in Buenos Aires in 1960 he put together another of the essential groups in his career: the Quinteto Nuevo Tango (bandoneon, piano, violin, electric guitar and double bass), which aroused a warm enthusiasm in certain types of public, among them, university audiences.
This setting, whose members were changing along time, dug a varied repertory, including new tangos by the leader, such as "Adiós, Nonino", "Decarísimo", "Calambre", "Los poseídos", "Introducción al ángel", "Muerte del ángel", "Revirado", "Buenos Aires Hora 0" and "Fracanapa", among others. With Héctor de Rosas´ voice he achieved outstanding renditions of "Milonga triste" and tangos such as "Cafetín de Buenos Aires", "Maquillaje", "Nostalgias" and "Cuesta abajo", among others.