Buena Vista Social Club (Remaster) Buena Vista Social Club

• 1 Chan Chan 04:17
• 2 De Camino a La Vereda 05:03
• 3 El Cuarto De Tula 07:25
• 4 Pueblo Nuevo 06:06
• 5 Dos Gardenias 03:03
• 6 Y Tu Que Has Hecho? 03:13
• 7 Veinte Anos 03:31
• 8 El Carretero 03:30
• 9 Candela 05:29
• 10 Amor De Loca Juventud 03:23
• 11 Orgullecida 03:19
• 12 Murmullo 03:51
• 13 Buena Vista Social Club 04:52
• 14 La Bayamesa 02:53
• Total Runtime 59:55

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This Grammy award winning album features legendary guitarist Ry Cooder on assorted guitars with the cream of Cuban's finest musicians. Certified Platinum by the RIAA (1/00).

The original idea behind Buena Vista was to record a collaboration between a number of African and Cuban guitarists. World Circuit’s Nick Gold invited Ry Cooder to participate, having worked together before on Ali Farka Touré’s 1994 Grammy Award–winning Talking Timbuktu. Cooder replied within hours saying he would be there. The Africans failed to make the trip, but recording went ahead anyway.

'Buena Vista Social Club' is both the name given to this extraordinary pool of musicians and the album, recorded in just six days in Havana’s 1950s vintage Egrem studios. The album has an intimate, natural charm that comes from musicians totally at ease with other, sharing a deep passion and understanding for the music and playing a repertoire suggested by themselves. Arrangements and instrumentation were worked out during recording according to the feel of the individual songs, and the vast majority of the performances were recorded 'live' in one or two takes.

The oldest musician on the album is the 89-year-old giant of Cuban music, guitarist and vocalist Compay Segundo. According to Cooder, “the whole album turned on Compay. He was the fulcrum, the pivot. He knew all the best songs and the way to do them. Well, he’s been doing them since World War One.” Featured on vocals is 70-year-old Ibrahim Ferrer, a star from the 1950s who was literally called in off the streets on the first day of recording after years of musical inactivity. Also on vocals is the great bolero singer Omara Portuondo, whom Cooder calls “the Edith Piaf of Cuba.” Omara happened to be in the studio lobby and Cooder invited her upstairs to record. On guitar and vocals is Eliades Ochoa, the great country musician who was flown in for these recordings from Santiago in the east of Cuba. On piano is the brilliant Rubén González, veteran of Arsenio Rodríguez’s early 1940s band whom Cooder describes as “the greatest piano soloist I have ever heard in my life.”

These featured musicians are joined by a host of Cuba’s finest players, including Orlando 'Cachaíto' López on bass, Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal on trumpet, and the percussionists from the band Sierra Maestra.

The album includes a wide variety of Cuban styles, from the city sounds of Havana to the country style of Santiago, and the songs cover a range of the Island’s history from 'La Bayamesa' written in 1869 to 'Chan Chan,' a contemporary composition by Compay Segundo.

„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.“ (Steve McMullen, AMG)

Ry Cooder, vocals, guitar, mandolin
Compay Segundo, vocals, guitar, congas, background vocals
Eliades Ochoa, vocals, guitar
Julio Fernandez, vocals, maracas
Ibrahim Ferrer, vocals, background vocals
Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, vocals, background vocals
Omara Portuondo, vocals
Benito Suárez Magana, guitar
Manuel 'El Guajiro' Mirabal, trumpet
Rubén González, piano
Lázaro Villa, congas, guiro
Carlos González, bongos, cowbells
Juan de Marcos González, guiro, background vocals
Alberto Valdés, maracas
Julienne Oviedo Sánchez, timbales
Luis Barzaga, background vocals

Recorded March 1996 at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba
Engineered by Jerry Boys, Larry Hirsch
Produced by Ry Cooder

Digitally remastered

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