On this unrivalled Audio Nautes disc, Astor Piazzolla takes Astor Piazzolla on a sensual and imaginative journey through the musical landscape of his native Argentina. Beginning in the mid-1950s, the great composer and bandoneon virtuoso completely changed Argentine tango, giving rise to tango nuevo, a genre imbued with a deep fascination that is today inextricably linked to his name. However, the emergence of this new style caused him a lot of trouble, as some adherents of the traditional tango went so far as to threaten him with physical violence for daring to change its original sound. At the same time, however, his extraordinary creativity helped him become a true national hero in the eyes of most Argentine fans. Thanks to Piazzolla's work, the Argentine tango could no longer be danced according to conventional styles, but many realised that a completely new and exciting genre had been born in the music world, one that would soon influence music around the world. This unrivalled disc from Audio Nautes provides an appreciation of a simply extraordinary soundscape that invites fans to listen closely to immerse themselves in a whole new world.
UHQCD is a radical change to the CD manufacturing process itself. The conventional wisdom about CD manufacturing, which had remained largely unchanged across the world for over 30 years, has been exhaustively questioned. Through this effort, the ultimate in quality was attained - a level of quality that is certainly impossible to achieve with existing CD discs.
The Ultimate High Quality CD was developed through an effort to improve audio quality by simply upgrading the materials used in ordinary CDs to higher quality materials. For the substrate a high-transparency and high-fluidity polycarbonate (a type of plastic) of the type used for LCD panels was used, while for the reflective layer, low-cost, common aluminum was replaced with a unique and expensive alloy of high-reflectivity.
Conventional CDs are produced using the technique of injection molding to form "pits" of data on polycarbonate material. Metal plate on which "pits" representing audio source data are formed is used as a die. Polycarbonate is melted at high temperature and poured into the die to duplicate the pit patterns on the stamper.
This method is efficient because it enables high-speed production, but it does not enable totally accurate or complete duplication of the pits on the stamper. As a melted plastic, polycarbonate is inevitably viscous, so it cannot penetrate completely into every land and groove of the tiny pits of the stamper.
The Ultimate High Quality CD photopolymer is used instead of polycarbonate to replicate the pits of the stamper. In their normal state, photopolymers are liquids, but one of their characteristic properties is that they harden when exposed to light of certain wavelengths. The advantage of this property, perfect replication of very finely detailed pits was achieved. Photopolymers in the liquid state are able to penetrate into the tiniest corners of pits on the stamper so that the pattern of the pits is reproduced to an extremely high level of accuracy. The Ultimate High Quality CD reproduces audio with greater precision and at a level that is impossible to achieve using conventional CD production technology!
Musicians:
Astor Piazzolla - bandoneon
Pablo Ziegler - piano
Fernando Suarez Paz - violin
Oscar Lopez Ruiz - guitar
Hector Console - contrabass
