Buena Vista Social Club Discografia Torrents

Already involved in the African collaboration project were Cuban musicians including bassist Orlando 'Cachaito' López, guitarist Eliades Ochoa and musical director Juan de Marcos González, who had himself been organizing a similar project for the Afro-Cuban All Stars. Cooder and Gold changed their plans and decided to record an album of Cuban son music with local musicians. trade and travel embargo against Cuba), it transpired that the musicians from Africa had not received their visas and were unable to travel to Havana. On Cooder's arrival (via Mexico to avoid the ongoing U.S. In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder had been invited to Havana by British world music producer Nick Gold of World Circuit Records to record a session where two African highlife musicians from Mali were to collaborate with Cuban musicians. In 2022, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally historically or aesthetically significant'. Footage from these dates, as well as from the recording sessions in Havana, is shown in the 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club directed by Wim Wenders. In contrast to A toda Cuba le gusta, which was conceived as a revival of the son conjunto, Buena Vista Social Club was meant to bring back the traditional trova and filin, a mellower take on the Cuban son and bolero, as well as the danzón.Ī critical and commercial success, the album's release was followed by a short concert tour in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall in 1998.

It is the only standard studio album exclusively credited to the Buena Vista Social Club.īuena Vista Social Club was recorded in parallel with A toda Cuba le gusta by the Afro-Cuban All Stars, a similar project also promoted by World Circuit executive Nick Gold and featuring largely the same lineup.

It was recorded at Havana's EGREM studios in March 1996 and released on September 16, 1997, on World Circuit. Buena Vista Social Club is the debut album by the Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of Cuban musicians directed by Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder.

Buena Vista Social Club Discografia Torrents