CD Release Party with Julien Labro

The music of Astor Piazzolla is well known to North American audiences, but what came after the Tango Nuevo revolution?

Julien Labro (bandoneon, accordion, accordina) and the Spektral Quartet have set out to uncover exactly that with their upcoming album on Azica Records. With blistering new tunes by Diego Schissi, Fernando Otero and Miguel Zenón (guest soloist on the record) and knockout arrangements of Hermeto Pascoal, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Piazzolla, Labro and the Spektral Quartet seek to introduce American audiences to a largely-unheard corner of new South American repertoire, and to continue to ask, What comes next?

Where better to drink in this tantalizing music than City Winery, where the beer flows like wine.