RY COODER The Buena Vista Social Club CLASSIC RECORDS 8LP 45RPM BOX Set NEW
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RY COODER Buena Vista Social Club
New, but unsealed Audiophile Vinyl 8 Record Set - 45 RPM
Record Label: Classic Records/Nonesuch RTH 79478-45
Beautiful and highly collectable limited edition box set release from audiophile label, Classic Records. 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.
The best sound, ever, for this legendary audiophile recording.
Condition: Laminated, unsealed box looks like new. No wear. Sides are rigid, corners are sharp and colors, vibrant. Inside the box are eight records individually packaged in generic white inner sleeves inside white heavy board jackets. Records are not sealed but they have never been removed from their sleeves. There is one gatefold of the original album cover on laminated heavy board plus a 4 panel, 12 inch, photo and credit insert. A beautiful deluxe package!
1. Chan Chan
2. De Camino A La Vereda
3. El Cuarto De Tula
4. Pueblo Nuevo
5. Dos Gardeninas
6. Y Tu Que Has Hecho?
7. Veinte Anos
8. El Carretero
9. Candela
10. Amor De Loca Juventud
11. Orgullecida
12. Murmullo
13. Buena Vista Social Club
14. La Bayamesa
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.
If you get one album of Cuban music, this should be the one.
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