BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Ry Cooder CLASSIC RECORDS Audiophile 180g 2 LP SEALED
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BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
New & Sealed Audiophile Vinyl 2 Record Set
Record Label: Classic Records/Nonesuch RTH 79478
180 Gram Vinyl Classic Records Reissue featuring Ry Cooder. Luxuriously packaged two record set.
Highly collectable release from audiophile label, Classic Records. This title was mastered by Classic Records at Half Speed from the original source master tapes. An all-analog, tube amplification process was used at every step. Classic Records used a proprietary vinyl that guaranteed virtually no surface noise and sonically superior dynamics.
Classic Records pride themselves for releasing each album with the original artwork, LP labels and any other materials which were included with original pressings.
Record is new and still sealed in it's original plastic sleeve. Perforation is completely intact. Corners are sharp, colors vibrant and spine is straight. There are no flaws or blemishes. 100% mint.
Side One
1. Chan Chan
2. De Camino A La Vereda
3. El Cuarto De Tula
Side Two
4. Pueblo Nuevo
5. Dos Gardeninas
6. Y Tu Que Has Hecho?
7. Veinte Anos
Side Three
8. El Carretero
9. Candela
10. Amor De Loca Juventud
Side Four
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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