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Buena Vista Social Club (Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue) album cover
Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club
Label: World Circuit – WCV050
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold, 180g
Country: Europe
Released:
Genre: Latin
Style: Afro-Cuban, Bolero, Danzon, Guajira, Guaracha, Son, Trova
Tracklist
A1 Chan Chan 4:16
A2 De Camino A La Vereda 5:03
A3 El Cuarto De Tula 7:27
B1 Pueblo Nuevo 6:05
B2 Dos Gardenias 3:02
B3 ¿Y Tu Que Has Hecho? 3:13
C1 Veinte Años 3:29
C2 El Carretero 3:28
C3 Candela 5:27
C4 Amor De Loca Juventud 3:21
D1 Orgullecida 3:18
D2 Murmullo 3:50
D3 Buena Vista Social Club 4:50
D4 La Bayamesa 2:54
Companies, etc.
Record Company – BMG
Phonographic Copyright (p) – World Circuit Ltd.
Copyright (c) – World Circuit Ltd.
Pressed By – Record Industry – 99011
Recorded At – Estudios EGREM
Recorded At – Ocean Way Recording
Mixed At – Livingston Studios
Mixed At – The Bakery Recording Studios
Credits
Adapted By [Adapted for Vinyl By] – iwant design
Design – The Team (7)
Executive Producer, Sleeve Notes – Nick Gold
Mastered By, Lacquer Cut By – BG*
Musician – Alberto "Virgilio" Valdés, Barbarito Torres, Benito Suárez Magana*, Carlos González, Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Joachim Cooder, Julienne Oviedo Sanchez, Julio Alberto Fernández*, Luis Barzaga, Lázaro Villa, Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Omara Portuondo, Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Rubén González, Salvador Repilado Labrada
Musician, Producer – Ry Cooder
Musician, Transcription By – Juan de Marcos González
Photography By – Susan Titelman
Recorded By [Additional] – Larry Hirsch
Recorded By, Mixed By – Jerry Boys
Transcription By [Songs] – María Rodríguez (4)
Translated By – Jenny Adlington
Translated By, Sleeve Notes – Nigel Williamson
Notes
Similar to Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club, with different labels and without download card.
Housed in a gatefold sleeve and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Includes a 20 page booklet.
Mastered from the original analogue master tapes.
℗ & © World Circuit Limited, a BMG Company 1997
[Cover spine, left]
[logo - World Circuit] WCV050 ✩ Buena Vista Social Club ✩
A World Circuit Production
Made in the E.U.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 0 75597 95168 4
Label Code (On back cover): LC 02339
Label Code (On labels): LC 2339
Matrix / Runout (Side A etched, [stamped]): BG WCV050-A C [99011 3A]
Matrix / Runout (Side B etched, [stamped]): BG WCV050-B RE1 [99011 4B]
Matrix / Runout (Side C etched, [stamped]): BG WCV050-C RE1 [99011 4C]
Matrix / Runout (Side D etched, [stamped]): BG WCV050-D B [99011 4D]
Rights Society (On labels): MCPS
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Rezension:
Als Ry Cooder 1996 nach Havanna reiste, um dort ein Album mit westafrikanischen Musikern zu betreuen, konnte er nicht ahnen, welch unglaublicher musikalischer Schatz da auf ihn wartete. Die Afrikaner hatten keine Visa bekommen, also beschlossen Cooder und World Circuit-Produzent Nick Gold vor Ort auf Spurensuche zu gehen und ein paar Musiker ausfindig zu machen, die in der Prä-Castro-Ära legendären Ruf genossen hatten, seither aber außerhalb ihrer Heimat nicht mehr zu hören gewesen waren und ergo von der Welt vergessen wurden. Er fand Koryphäen wie Compay Segundo (fast 90), Ibrahim Ferrer und Rubén González (beide deutlich über 70) und noch einige andere wie die Sängerin Omara Portuondo, Trompeter Manuel Mirabal und "Nachwuchskünstler" wie Eliades Ochoa (Jahrgang 1946). Die betagten Herrschaften, teils seit vielen Jahren nicht mehr aktiv, gingen bereitwillig mit Cooder ins Studio – was dort innerhalb von nicht einmal einer Woche entstand, war schlechterdings magisch und wurde bekanntlich nicht nur eines der erfolgreichsten "Weltmusik"-Alben überhaupt, sondern löste weltweit ein lang anhaltendes (und viele große Platten nach sich ziehendes) Interesse an kubanischer Musik aus. Ein Jahrhundert-Album, dessen Zauber sich nicht abnutzt: Die Musik, die hier aufgezeichnet wurde, war ja bei der Aufnahme schon ein halbes Jahrhundert alt und hat ihre Unempfindlichkeit gegen Zeitenwechsel und Moden längst bewiesen… (1997/2015)
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*** Gatefold Cover
Zum ersten Mal seit über 10 Jahren wieder auf Vinyl erhältlich: das erfolgreichste 1996 arrangiert das Londoner Label World Circuit eine Aufnahmesession im kubanischen Havanna.
Innerhalb von drei Wochen entstanden drei Alben, das dritte, »Buena Vista Social Club«, wurde ein Welthit mit bislang sieben Millionen verkauften Exemplaren. Das bis heute meistverkaufte Weltmusikalbum inspirierte u. a. Wim Wenders zu seinem erfolgreichen Film über Kubas Musikerlegenden.
Jetzt ist »Buena Vista Social Club« zum ersten Mal seit über 10 Jahren wieder auf Vinyl erhältlich.
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Mastered by Bernie Grundman - 180 Gram Vinyl
Mastered from the Original Analogue Mastertapes by Bernie Grundman
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
Selections:
1. Chan Chan
2. De Camino a La Vereda
3. El Cuarto de Tula
4. Pueblo Nuevo
5. Dos Gardenias
6. Y Tu Que Has Hecho?
7. Veinte Anos
8. El Carretero
9. Candela
10. Amore de Loca Juventud
11. Orgullecida
12. Murmullo
13. Buena Vista Social Club
14. La Bayamesa
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180-gram gatefold double LP
Mastered by Bernie Grundman
Album download included, offer subject to expiration
The original Buena Vista Social Club album was recorded for World Circuit Records over seven days at the vintage EGREM studios in Havana. Released in 1997, the album went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, selling more than 8 million copies and helping to introduce Cuba’s rich musical heritage and pre-revolutionary past to the world.
Now, almost two decades later, World Circuit Records are delighted to present Buena Vista Social Club on double vinyl. This comes after a limited run that was released exclusively in the US and Japan back in 1997, with a subsequent re-issue in 2009 (U.S. only).
Cut from the original analogue half-inch tapes and mastered by Bernie Grundman (mastering engineer of the original release), the studio recordings have been lovingly pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.
Housed in a gatefold sleeve, the 2LPs are presented alongside a beautiful 20-page booklet and a digital download card.
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