Buena Vista Social Club Ry Cooder Sealed 2LP 180g Classic Records Gonzalez
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Buena Vista Social Club ~ Ry Cooder ~ Compay Segundo ~ Ibrahim Ferrer ~ Ruben Gonzalez ~ Eliades Ochoa Factory Sealed / Factory New 180-gram Analogue Audiophile pressing. Double Vinyl ~ 2LP set Classic Records - RTH 79478 Gatefold cover is VG++ to Mint- with small, minor corner-bends and wear. The factory-sealed perforated-sleeve has shelf-wear and is partially split on each end of the left-side corners and is mostly sealed. This set weight about 589 grams total so the vinyl may be a 200-gram pressing; contact me before purchasing if you have any questions. Out of print
"This album is named after a members-only club that was opened in Havana in pre-Castro times, a period of unbelievable musical activity in Cuba. While bandleader Desi Arnaz became a huge hit in the States, several equally talented musicians never saw success outside their native country, and have had nothing but their music to sustain them during the Castro reign. Ry Cooder went to Cuba to record a musical documentary of these performers. Many of the musicians on this album have been playing for more than a half century, and they sing and play with an obvious love for the material. Cooder could have recorded these songs without paying the musicians a cent; one can imagine them jumping up and grabbing for their instruments at the slightest opportunity, just to play. Most of the songs are a real treasure, traversing a lot of ground in Cuba's musical history. There's the opening tune, "Chan Chan," a composition by 89-year-old Compay Segundo, who was a bandleader in the '50s; the cover of the early-'50s tune "De Camino a la Verada," sung by the 72-year-old composer Ibrahim Ferrer, who interrupted his daily walk through Havana just long enough to record; or the amazing piano playing on "Pablo Nuevo" by 77-year-old Rubén González, who has a unique style that blends jazz, mambo, and a certain amount of playfulness. All of these songs were recorded live -- some of them in the musicians' small apartments -- and the sound is incredibly deep and rich, something that would have been lost in digital recording and overdubbing. Cooder brought just the right amount of reverence to this material, and it shows in his production, playing, and detailed liner notes. If you get one album of Cuban music, this should be the one. -allmusic
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