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Written by FrontLine Assembly
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Nov 26, 2005 at 01:06 PM |
Music is definately a form of art, especially when you get into anything that is pure and full of soul such as the Buena Vista Social Club. I am really not sure what to categorize this under since it is a documentary, an album and it was a club in Cuba pre-revolution.
Back in 1998 Ry Cooder,
a great American slide guitarist, went to Cuba to capture some of the
local music. What they ended up with was amazing supergroup of sorts.
They scoured Cuba and found some of the old greats, most of them had
given up on music completely. I think you would to if you lived in Cuba
where you never would go anywhere and definately wouldn't be able to
feed your family.{mosgoogle right}
Some of the people Cooder
assembled were Ibrahim Ferrer who was popular in the 40s and hadn't
been heard from since and was now shining shoes for a living, Ruben
Gonzalez who is an amazing piano player, Elides Ochoa who is now 80
years old and still just as fast as ever on the guitar and to many more
to even mention
Cooder somehow assembled all these people
together and recorded an album and documentary. They ended up even
coming to America and playing at Carnegie Hall for some of these people
that was the most amazing thing in the world, some of them had never
been outside of Cuba. The documentary and album (which won a Grammy and
was nominated for an academy award) revitalized some of these peoples
careers giving them the vehicles they needed to be able to record new
albums and material. Without this we would of lost nearly 100 years of
great music.
If you are interested in salsa, latin music or
just love great musicians then you should watch the documentary which
is playing on The Movie Channel periodically throughout the month.
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Last Updated ( Nov 26, 2005 at 05:22 PM )
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