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Sep 16, 2021 · Sept. 16, 2021. “Buena Vista Social Club,” which was recorded 25 years ago and released in 1997, was the unlikeliest of blockbusters: a collection of decades-old Cuban songs, featuring musicians...
- So-Called “World Music
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- From Shining Shoes to Carnegie Hall, and The Stories Along The Way
The ''Buena Vista Social Club'' album quietly crept into the...
- Buena Vista Social Club
"The Buena Vista Social Club" (Nonesuch), an album of 14...
- So-Called “World Music
Sep 20, 2021 · Actually, what became the "Buena Vista Social Club" album - it really was not supposed to happen. Nick Gold, at the time, was the president of the indie label World Circuit Records.
Oct 18, 2021 · Buena Vista Social Club turns 25 and is celebrating with a series of anniversary albums. This is how it happened, in the words of three of the men most responsible for the project.
- Fateful Meeting
- Castro Regime Rejected Son Cubano
- Enter Buena Vista Social Club
- Successful Documentary
- Special Jubilee Edition
At the historic studio, Ferrer met old acquaintances, Cuban music veterans, including the 90-year-old singer and clarinetist Compay Segundo, Grammy-winning singer Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa and Ruben Gonzalez, a famous pianist. Gonzalez sang "Candela," an old hit that had made Ferrer famous — so of course, he joined in. The musicians had a visi...
For years, Gonzalez and a few other Cuban music veterans had been playing Cuban classics in a long-forgotten musical style called Son Cubano under the name Afro-Cuban All Stars. Before the revolution, Cuba had a lively Afro-Cuban club and music scene. It was rejected as "bourgeois, fascist and instrumentalized by American gangsters" by Fidel Castro...
These old-timers, some of whom had fallen out of favor under Castro, sat together in the studio that afternoon in March 1996 when Ibrahim Ferrer sang his old hit — a magic moment. Cooder asked Ferrer to record the song with him, and that was not all: He wanted to produce a record with the Afro-Cuban All Stars. And he had a name for the project, too...
Two years later, Cooder's longtime friend Wim Wenders, a German filmmaker, made a documentary movie about the famous musicians. He filmed them in interviews, during studio sessions in Havana and at concerts abroad — Buena Vista Social Club was on tour a lot after the success of the album. The Oscar-winning film has touching moments: Omara Portuondo...
A special edition of the legendary record was released on September 17. Producers Ry Cooder and Nick Gold took another look at the original tapes, dug through the archive and put together a remastered album that has an additional 12 previously unreleased tracks from the 1996 recording sessions, photos that were never published, a 64-page booklet wi...
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Sep 22, 2021 · In 1999, an Oscar-nominated documentary film with the eponymous title, “Buena Vista Social Club,” made traditional Cuban music hot again on the island. Fonseca said there was a time when traditional Cuban music was nearly disappearing, with little on the market.
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Sep 20, 2021 · After the former Soviet Union crumbled and Cuba lost its main trading partner and underwriter, the island was plunged into years of extreme rationing. Cubans lacked everything from shoes to...
