Title: Blue in the Face - Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Tracks: Tango apasionado (prologue) All compositions by Astor Piazzolla except where noted. Group: Various Musicians: Label: Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. Country: USA Catalog number: 9-45921-2 Media: CD Year of release: 1995 Studio or Live: Studio Year of performance: 1991 Description: Style: Astor and the Movies (Soundtracks) (All periods) The Quintet (Second Incarnation) (1979-1991) Comments: Contains a variety of artists and songs composing the soundtrack for the movie Blue in the Face. Soundtrack selected and produced by David Byrne. Contains Piazzolla's Tango Apasionado (version extracted from The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) ). The song is used as backdrop in the scene where a guy (played by Jim Jarmusch) quits smoking and is having his last cigarette while delivering a monologue to the smoke shop owner (Harvey Keitel) that also sold him his first cigarette. It is a good scene.