Artist.......: VA (Buena Vista Social Club)
Album........: Rhythms del Mundo (Cuba)
Label........: APE
Genre........: Latin
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: nov.-08-2006
str.date.....: nov.-17-2006
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.rhythmsdelmundo.com/
track title time
01. Coldplay - Clocks 05:02
02. Jack Johnson - Better Together 03:28
03. Arctic Monkeys - Dancing Shoes 02:30
04. Dido & Faithless - One Step Too Far 03:17
05. Ibrahim Ferrer - As Time Goes By 03:11
06. U2 & Coco Freeman - I Still Haven't Found 04:53
What I'm Looking For
07. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved 04:06
08. Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way 03:58
09. Omara Portuondo - Killing Me Softly 04:27
10. Vania Borges feat. Quincy Jones - Ai No 04:31
Corrida
11. Sting - Fragilidad 04:18
12. Vania Borges - DonÆt Know Why 03:10
13. Aquila Rose & Idania Valdez - Hotel Buena 03:38
Vista
14. Coco Freeman feat. Franz Ferdinand - The 03:59
Dark of the Matinee
15. El Lele de Los Van Van feat. Radiohead 05:15
(samples) - High and Dry
16. Ibrahim Ferrer & Omara Portuondo - 03:10
Casablanca (As time goes by)
Runtime 62:53 min
Size 88,6 MB
Release Notes:
The concept of fusing the Latin sounds of the Buena
Vista Social Club and Western musicians came out of
a discussion my colleagues, Ron Oehl and the Berman
Brothers, and I had at the Sundance Film Festival
in January 2005.
The previous year I was writing music with a friend
at his beachfront house in a little fishing village
on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka. A few months
later that little village and many of itsÆ
inhabitants were almost totally obliterated by the
Tsunami. I was extremely moved and upset by the
tragedy of so many lives being lost or altered
forever. The village had to be completely rebuilt
as well as the livelihood of countless fishermen
and shopkeepers.
This was the event that sparked off this project. I
knew I had to do something for those villagers.
But what could I do? As it turned out, this
project began to take shape with the formation of a
new organization, Artists' Project Earth (APE),
which comes to the aid of natural disaster victims
and raises awareness for climate change. Although,
it may seem unrelated, I have always placed
humanityÆs relationship with nature as a cause of
many of the planetÆs disasters. And although it may
not be scientifically very sound, I believe we are
at the root of most disasters, but irregardless,
global warming is certainly something we are
totally responsible for and APE is addressing this
issue head on. As my colleague and board advisor
George Monbiot says there is no greater threat to
mankind than Global Warming!
The good thing is we will have fun trying to do
what we can. The fun part is the music, the art,
the dance and the many ways we will bring to the
worldÆs attention mankindÆs carelessness and how to
change our bad habits.
So, off to Havana we go in search of the Buena
Vista Social Club musicians. Why Buena Vista
Social Club? Well it has been such a long time
since we heard from them. And besides, I for one
love Latin music, so why not combine it with the
worldÆs great Western music.
My first stop was Sting. Back in the early 90Æs I
was a co-founder of a Rainforest conservation
organization called ELF- Earth Love Fund and I was
working on a compilation album, æEarthriseÆ. I had
been chasing Sting for a contribution of the track
Fragile which I always loved. As we both were at
the same rainforest function in Brazil, I cornered
him and asked if he would let me use Fragile for
our album. He hemmed and haad, till I insisted we
were both working for the same cause, how could he
refuse? Well he finally gave in, we shook hands on
it and the deal was done!
Only the track that his record company sent was a
Spanish version of the song! So I rang A&M Records
and insisted that Sting had agreed to let us have
Fragile not Fragilidad. They eventually agreed to
let me have it and æearthriseÆ went on to become
the official Earth Summit album and also a no. 1
album in the UK charts. The Spanish track however
stuck in my mind and I thought why not start off
this project with that song done in the Buena Vista
style. I phoned StingÆs office and reminded Sting,
via his Management of that story and æby the wayÆ
would he mind if I used Fragilidad with the Buena
Vista musicians. Well thatÆs how that track came to
be. It only took one day in the studio with
Barbarito Torres on laud and the great
percussionists of Buena VistaÆs original players,
we had a cool new version of that song and the
project was on itÆs way.