RY COODER Buena Vista Social Club CLASSIC RECORDS 45rpm 8 disc AUDIOPHILE box
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RY COODER Buena Vista Social Club CLASSIC RECORDS 45rpm 8 disc 180 gram AUDIOPHILE box set (Mastered by Bernie Grundman - Pressed at RTI) Classic Records/Nonesuch RTH 79478-45
Tracklist
Chan Chan
De Camino A La Vereda
El Cuarto De Tula
Pueblo Nuevo
Dos Gardeninas
Y Tu Que Has Hecho?
Veinte Anos
El Carretero
Candela
Amor De Loca Juventud
Orgullecida
Murmullo
Buena Vista Social Club
La Bayamesa
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Notes
SALSA RUMBA AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ RARE DOUBLE VINYL 2xLP MINT OUT OF PRINTBUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
RY COODER - IBRAHIM FERRER - RUBEN GONZALEZ - ELIADES OCHOA - COMPAY SEGUNDO
Buena Vista Social Club self titled Vinyl 2xLP NEAR MINT Classic
ORIGINAL 1997 2 LP SET 2009 PRESSING ?
200 Gram PRESSING QUIEX SV-P SUPER VINYL PROFILE AUDIOPHILE
1997 LABEL NONESUCH / WORLD CIRCUIT / CLASSIC RECORDS – RTH 79478 U.S.A. EIGHT one-sided vinyl records pressed on 180 Gram vinyl. All-Analogue Half Speed Mastering from the original Master Tapes at 45 RPM. Box contains original gatefold sleeve with deluxe four panel photo/credits insert.
Review: 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.
Buena Vista Social Club is a studio album by Cuban bandleader and musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians, released on September 16, 1997 on World Circuit Records. The album was produced by Cooder who travelled to Cuba to record sessions with the musicians, many of whom were previously largely unknown outside Cuba. The musicians and the songs were later also featured in a documentary film of the same name. The music featured on the album was inspired by the Buena Vista Social Club, a membership club that was at its height during the 1940s and 1950s. Many of the musicians performing on the record were either former performers at the club or were prominent Cuban musicians during the era of the club's existence. Other younger musicians on the record trace their musical roots back to pre-revolutionaryCuban music, mainly the famous Havana musical scene of the 1950s.
Buena Vista Social Club earned considerable critical praise and has received numerous accolades from music writers and publications.[5] In 2003, the album was ranked number 260 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[6] one of only two albums on the list to be produced in a non-English speaking country.
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