After watching a programme on television about the Buena Vista Social Club, I was inspired to buy this CD. And, I was not disappointed!
I don't usually buy music from this genre but I was soon dancing around the room 'shaking my booty'! - not a pretty sight!!
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Social Club. The group--really a gaggle of aging Cuban maestros brought together for stunning all-star performances--keeps its footing in Cuban dance music at th...
Social Club. The group--really a gaggle of aging Cuban maestros brought together for stunning all-star performances--keeps its footing in Cuban dance music at th...
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
Buena Vista Social Club: Compay Segundo (vocals, guitar, congas); Eliades Ochoa (vocals,
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guitar); Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, bongos, clave); Ry Cooder (acoustic & electric slide guitars, guitar, oud, bolon, mbira, percussion); Ruben Gonzalez (piano).Additional personnel includes: Juan de Marcos Gonzalez (conductor, guiro, background vocals); Julio Alberto Fernandez (vocals, maracas); Manuel Puntillita Licea (vocals, congas); Omara Portuondo (vocals); Benito Suarez Magana (guitar); Barbarito Torres (laoud); Manuel Guajiro Mirabal (trumpet); Orlando Cachaito Lopez, Salvador Repilado Labrada (bass); Joachim Cooder (drums, udu drum, dumbeck, conga); Alberto Virgillo Valdes (maracas, background vocals).Recorded at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba, March, 1996. Includes liner notes by Nick Gold and Nigel Williamson.BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance.That Ry Cooder, you've got to keep an eye on him every minute, or he jumps into another cross-cultural collaboration. In the wake of his landmark recordings TALKING TIMBUKTU with Ali Farka Toure and A MEETING BY THE RIVER with V.M. Bhatt comes BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, essentially a supergroup of traditional Cuban musicians with the addition of international agitator Cooder. Somehow, Cooder always finds just the right space to slide his sinuous slide guitar into, so that it works in almost any context. Here, amidst the multi-layered percussion, piano and Cuban guitar rhythms, Cooder's slide simultaneously finds a home and eggs the ensemble on. The natural beauty of the Cuban tonal and rhythmic palette is the real star of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, evoking both a sense of mystery and a feeling of intense emotional satisfaction.[Reviews]Spin (9/99, p.156) - Ranked #71 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #21 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.Q (1/98, p.112) - Included in Q Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 1997.Rolling Stone (9/18/97, p.104) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...revisit[s] the lovelorn ballads, patriotic hymns and gentle son-based dance numbers heard in swank Havana lounges as far back as the 1920s....enduring reminders that in Cuba, the wisdom of the ages still counts for something.Vibe (11/97, p.152) - ...The beguiling fusion of Cooder's twangy slide guitar with the danzon and other, conga-tinged Afro-Hispanic rhythms...makes for an exciting multicultural marriage...Entertainment Weekly (10/03/97, p.85) - ...The rhythms vary, but the sound is gentle yet flamboyant throughout. It brims with warmth. - Rating: B+n
Buena Vista Social Club
Ry Cooder's name has helped bring attention to this session, but it's the veteran Cuban
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son musicians who make this album really special. Reminiscent of Ellington in its scope and sense of hushed romanticism, Buena Vista Social Club is that rare meld of quietude and intensity; while the players sound laid-back, they're putting forth very alive music, a reminder that aging doesn't mean taking to bed. Barbarito Torres's laoud solo on "El Cuarto de Tula" is both more blinding and more tasteful than any guitar showcase on any recent rock album; a quote from "Stormy Weather" and some very distinct parallels to Hawaiian styles remind us of why it's called "world music." --Rickey Wright
son musicians who make this album really special. Reminiscent of Ellington in its scope and sense of hushed romanticism, Buena Vista Social Club is that rare meld of quietude and intensity; while the players sound laid-back, they're putting forth very alive music, a reminder that aging doesn't mean taking to bed. Barbarito Torres's laoud solo on "El Cuarto de Tula" is both more blinding and more tasteful than any guitar showcase on any recent rock album; a quote from "Stormy Weather" and some very distinct parallels to Hawaiian styles remind us of why it's called "world music." --Rickey Wright
with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long since retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy-winning international bestseller. When Cooder returned to Havana in 1998 to record a solo album by 72-year-old vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, filmmaker Wim Wenders was on hand to document the occasion. Wenders splits the film between portraits of the performers, who tell their stories directly to the camera as they wander the streets and neighbourhoods of Havana, and a celebration of the music heard in performance scenes in the studio, in their first concert in Amsterdam, and in their second and final concert at Carnegie Hall. The songs are too often cut short in this fashion, but Buena Vista Social Club is not a concert film. Wenders weaves the artist biographies with a glimpse of modern Cuba remembering its past, capturing a lost culture in music that is suddenly, unexpectedly revived for audiences in Havana and around the world. Wenders makes his presence practically invisible, as if his directorial flourishes or off-screen narration might deflect attention from the artists, who do a fine job of telling their own stories through interviews and music. It's a loving portrait of a master class in Cuban music, with a vital cast of ageing performers whose energy and passion belie their years. --Sean Axmaker
phenomenons of the 1990s. A record of one astounding revival, it has in turn perpetuated that revival, providing a whole new lease of life--and a lucrative international platform--for a music that was lost to many people. Wenders gives credit where it's due--to world music guru Ry Cooder who travelled to Cuba in 1996 to seek out the soneros, performers hugely popular in the 1930s, 40s and 50s; made an album with them, the Buena Vista Social Club (Buena Vista being an area of Havana); and launched them on stage in Amsterdam and New York. But he also asked Wenders if he wanted to come along for the ride, and in March and April 1998, Wenders, on the spur of the moment with only a minimal crew ("concepts are for sissies"), travelled to Cuba and Amsterdam, and followed the newly popular stars: among them Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo and Ruben Gonzalez. The result was a remarkable international film sensation. They call this "the book of the film", and that's what it is. Of the 141 photographs, Wim Wenders provides the colour images and Donata Wenders some atmospheric black-and-white shots. The background to the whole enterprise is fleshed out with illuminating comments from Wenders and the performers (oddly laid out on the page as verse) an interview with Ry Cooder, song lyrics in Spanish and English, and mini-biographies of all involved. Fans of the film will no doubt want this to add to their Buena Vista collection--but first-time patrons of the Social Club would be well advised to invest in the one element of the film this beautiful-looking book can't provide: the CDs that contain the insistent music that is, after all, its raison d'etre--music that is, as soneros addict Wenders writes, "infectious and lively as it is wise and soothing".--Alan Stewart
phenomenons of the 1990s. A record of one astounding revival, it has in turn perpetuated that revival, providing a whole new lease of life--and a lucrative international platform--for a music that was lost to many people. Wenders gives credit where it's due--to world music guru Ry Cooder who travelled to Cuba in 1996 to seek out the soneros, performers hugely popular in the 1930s, 40s and 50s; made an album with them, the Buena Vista Social Club (Buena Vista being an area of Havana); and launched them on stage in Amsterdam and New York. But he also asked Wenders if he wanted to come along for the ride, and in March and April 1998, Wenders, on the spur of the moment with only a minimal crew ("concepts are for sissies"), travelled to Cuba and Amsterdam, and followed the newly popular stars: among them Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo and Ruben Gonzalez. The result was a remarkable international film sensation. They call this "the book of the film", and that's what it is. Of the 141 photographs, Wim Wenders provides the colour images and Donata Wenders some atmospheric black-and-white shots. The background to the whole enterprise is fleshed out with illuminating comments from Wenders and the performers (oddly laid out on the page as verse) an interview with Ry Cooder, song lyrics in Spanish and English, and mini-biographies of all involved. Fans of the film will no doubt want this to add to their Buena Vista collection--but first-time patrons of the Social Club would be well advised to invest in the one element of the film this beautiful-looking book can't provide: the CDs that contain the insistent music that is, after all, its raison d'etre--music that is, as soneros addict Wenders writes, "infectious and lively as it is wise and soothing".--Alan Stewart
...programme on television about the Buena Vista Social Club, I was inspired to buy this CD. And, I was not disappointed!
I don't usually buy music from this genre but I was soon dancing around the room 'shaking my booty'! - not a pretty sight!!
The front CD cover shows Ibrahim, wearing a leather cap, looking as though he's had a great deal of life's experiences and enjoyed them along the way! The plastic CD cover is also covered by a cardboard one.
... ...until he appeared with the Buena Vista Social Club, that he gained a more international recognition.
The album was mixed in Havana by the same group used by The Social Club, and so you get the same feel for the music - they know what they are doing!
Other artists and musicians have been invited to perform on this recording and so you get a good mix of sounds and a wide range of talented people - mainly from Cuba. Ry Cooder has produced this album, ...
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Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club
Main specs
Title: Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
Performer: Buena Vista Social Club
Genre: World Music
Sub Genre: Cuban Son
Release Date: 01/06/1999
Recomended Retail Price: 15.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 1999
Label / Distributor: World Circuit / New Note/Pinnacle
Engineer: Jerry Boys
Producer: Ry Cooder
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 769233005526
Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel includes: Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals); Teresa Garcia Caturla, Omara Portuondo, Jose Antonio Rodriguez (vocals); Manuel Galvan, Ry Cooder (electric guitar); Eliades Ochoa (guitar); Papi Oviedo (tres); Lazaro Ordonez Enriquez, Julian Corrales Subida (violin); Roy Avila Serrano (cello); Carlo Montenegro Ruiz (alto saxophone); Braulio Hernandez Rodriguez, Gil Bernal (tenor saxophone); Manuel Mirabal, Daniel Ramos (trumpet); Jesus \"Aguaje\" Ramos, Alberto Munoz (trombone); Ruben Gonzalez (piano); Olando \"Cachaito\" Lopez (bass); Joachim Cooder (drums, dumbek, udu drum); Roberto Garcia (bongos, guiro); Carlos Gonzalez (bongos, cowbell); Angel Terry (congas); Amadito Valdes (timbales); Ibrahim Ferrer, Jr. (clave); Lazaro Villa, Pio Leyva (background vocals).
Album Reviews: Mojo (1/00, p.31) - Ranked #13 in Mojo Magazine's \"Best of 1999.\"
Titles on disc 1
1.: Bruca Manigua
2.: Herido De Sombras
3.: Marieta
4.: Guateque Campesion
5.: Mama Mi Gusto
6.: Nuestra Ultima Cita
7.: Cienfuegos Tiene Su Guaguanco
8.: Silencio
9.: Aquellos Ojos Verdes
10.: Que Bueno Baila Usted
11.: Como Fue
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