Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club (2LP Vinyl)
World Circuit Records (1997 / This Pressing 2020)
$65.00
Brand New ~ Sealed! Superb Double LP 180-Gram Audiophile Vinyl Set With Deluxe Gatefold Cover. Includes Original Album Remastered, 20-Page Booklet.
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Brand New ~ Sealed! Superb Double LP 180-Gram Audiophile Vinyl Set With Deluxe Gatefold Cover. Includes The Original Album Remastered By Bernie Grundman, 20-Page Booklet Featuring New Liner Notes, Photos, Song Notes & Lyrics.
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Is The Original Cuban Classic, Featuring Compay Segundo, Ruben Gonzalez & A Host Of Talented Friends. A Highly Enjoyable Listening Experience ~ Essential!!!
Produced and featuring Ry Cooder, the ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ album was recorded over seven days at the vintage EGREM studios in Havana. Released in 1997, it went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, selling over eight 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 have reissued ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ on vinyl as a double-LP!!
Cut from the original analog half-inch tapes and mastered by Bernie Grundman (engineer of the original release), the studio recordings have been lovingly pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl. Housed in a gatefold sleeve, the LP is presented alongside a beautiful 20-page booklet.
“From the moment I first heard this recording I was impressed with how natural the sound was and the overall feeling that you were in the room,” Grundman says. “In mastering, to preserve that master tape sound, I was careful to use very little processing and made sure that the signal path contained the absolute minimum amount of electronics. A recording of this caliber does not come along very often, and when it does it is a real pleasure to work on.”
Side 1:
Chan Chan
De Camino a La Vereda
El Cuarto de Tula
Side 2:
Pueblo Nuevo
Dos Gardenias
Y Tu Que Has Hecho?
Side 3:
Veinte Anos
El Carretero
Candela
Amor de Loca Juventud
Side 4:
Orgullecida
Murmullo
Buena Vista Social Club
La Bayamesa
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The sound is incredibly deep and rich. Ry Cooder brought just the right amount of reverence to this material, and it shows in his production, playing, and detailed liner notes. 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.