Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall
Release Date.: 10/09/2008
Store Date...: 10/10/2008
Source.......: CDDA
Packer.......: 0.38g
Style........: Latin
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Encoder......: Lame
Quality......: VBRkbps
CD 1
01. chan chan (francisco repilado) 04:45
02. de camino a la vereda (ibrahim ferrer) 04:58
03. el cuarto de tula (sergio siaba) 08:00
04. la enganadora (enrique jorrin) 02:44
05. buena vista social club (israel lopez) 05:59
06. dos gardenias (isolina carillo) 04:23
07. quizas quizas (osvaldo farres) 03:47
08. veinte anos (maria teresa vera) 04:06
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38:42 min
52.19 mB
CD 2
01. orgullecida (elisco silveira) 03:23
02. y tu que has hecho (eusebio delfin) 03:33
03. siboney (ernesto lecuona) 02:32
04. mandinga (rodriguez fiffe) 05:29
05. almendra (abelardito valdes) 05:49
06. el carretero (guillermo portabales) 05:38
07. candela (faustino oramas) 07:00
08. silencio (rafael hernandez) 05:25
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38:49 min
52.13 mB
release notes
Available for the first time: the legendary Carnegie Hall concert by
the original Buena Vista Social Club in a lavishly-packaged 2CD set.
"The concert was more than a musical occasion. Musicians from Cuba in
their 70's, 80's and 90's, some emerging from retirement, were making
their United States debuts at no less than Carnegie Hall. With the
bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero, the Buena Vista Social Club
simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of its musicians
and mourned the era they embody. The New York Times.
Buena Vista Social Club, the Grammy Award-winning 1997 World Circuit
album produced by Ry Cooder, is the biggest-selling world music album
ever, with more than eight million records sold to date. It showcased
a dream team of veterans from Cuban music's golden age and introduced
the rhythms of son, bolero and danzon to a new audience making stars
of Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and
Compay Segundo.
The complete original band played a sold-out, one-night-only concert
at New York's Carnegie Hall on July 1st 1998. That show became the
climax of the acclaimed 1999 Wim Wenders' documentary about the
musicians, also called Buena Vista Social Club. The recording of that
historic night is only the second release by the original band.
The Buena Vista Social Club was never a regular band: they had come
together for ten days in a studio in Havana to record an album and
then gone their separate ways. Some of them were touring the world
with Juan de Marcos Gonzalez and his Afro-Cuban All Stars. Others,
such as Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, had their own touring bands.
Omara Portuondo had her own busy schedule and, so, too, did producer
and guitarist Ry Cooder.
Eventually, a window was found to bring them all together in April
1998 for two nights at The Carre Theatre in Amsterdam. The concerts
were such a success that this once-in-a-lifetime final show was staged
at New York's Carnegie Hall, the most prestigious concert platform in
America.
Due to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, most of the musicians had never been
to America let alone played the Carnegie Hall and the night was an
event and a celebration as much as a concert performance. "Being on
stage anywhere with those musicians and singers was a dream for me,"
recalls band leader Juan de Marcos. "But Carnegie Hall was something
else. It's the top venue in the world and I was so happy to be there
and to see people like Ruben and Ibrahim on that stage. It was never
going to happen. Except that it did." After that night, it was clear
there would not be another concert; busy schedules kept the individual
musicians touring and recording with their own projects, the brief
window of opportunity for U.S. shows closed with the renewing of
political hostilities and sadly within a few years a number of Buena
Vista's leading stars including Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo and
Ibrahim Ferrer had passed away.
Until now, apart from the moments seen in Wim Wenders' film, the music
from that magical, memorable night has only ever been heard by the
lucky few who were privileged to be there.
"When the musicians finally walked on stage, the crowd stood and
cheered, then erupted at the opening strains of 'Chan Chan,' much as
a rock audience does on hearing a band's biggest hit. The Los Angeles
Times.
"Listening to the tapes of the concert for the first time in ten years,
I'm struck by what an amazing musical event it was," Ry Cooder says
today. "These were great artists, old masters and they got inside the
music and they did it on a level you don't hear any more. It was real
and honest and you could feel the audience being pulled along by this
music. It was like all the genies were out of the bottle."
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