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'Chan Chan', 'The fourth of Tula', 'Candela', 'pride', 'The road', 'Dos gardenias' ...
sones, boleros, and guajiras danzones that were recorded in March 1996 in the ancient Egrem studios in Havana.
Then said Ry Cooder, the man who played with the Rolling Stones and recorded a duet with Ali Farka Toure and Vishma Mohan Bhatt, the author of soundtracks such as 'Paris, Texas', the master of the 'slide guitar'-technical play guitar with a metal or glass thimble, "I have the impression that I have spent my life preparing for this.
'Buena Vista Social Club', the title of a Cachao danzon inspired by a former recreation center in Havana, became almost a mark following the huge success of the self-titled album: it is assumed that eight million copies sold and still selling!.
Over ten years have been years since the concerts at the Carré Theatre in Amsterdam (April 1998) and Carnegie Hall in New York (July 1998).
The only people who gathered on one stage all-inclusive Cooder protagonists.
Wim Wenders, who directed the film "Buena Vista Social Club ', says that one moment summed up the project: at the end of' Silence ', the first of two concerts in Amsterdam, Omara Portuondo and Ibrahim began to mourn dries Ferrer tears with his handkerchief.
"Silence, they are sleeping lilies and daylilies, / do not want you to know my pain / because, if you see me crying, / die."
Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 21 will be heard in the auditorium Torres Park at about 23:00 hours and all those legendary songs with some of the former members of the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club.
When it premiered at the Berlinale in February 1999, film critic Ángel Fernández-Santos wrote that, the display of 'Buena Vista Social Club', sound, move and make it burst with Cuban legends living life.
In addition to the documentary was published a book published in Spain by Gustavo Gili, with images of the shooting and portraits of musicians signed by Donata Wenders's wife.
Not everyone welcomed with joy the international success of 'BVSC. "
Diego A.
Manrique echoed the discontent of many salsa and Cuban rappers before this tidal wave of nostalgia that, finally, had swept.
A few months ago that Nick Gold and World Circuit label have finally within reach of all the wonderful concert recording of those Cubans from another era with guitarist Ry Cooder Californian in New York.
Are no longer with us many of the heroes of traditional Cuban music: neither the sonero Compay Segundo, the Mayor of Cartagena will not have forgotten his gallantry nineteenth-, and pianist Ruben Gonzalez, and the singers Ibrahim Ferrer, Pio Leyva, Manuel ' Puntillita 'Licea, or the bass Cachaíto Lopez, the last to leave us.
Eliades Ochoa got off the ship long Omara Portuondo and not already part of the cast for their own affairs.
Undoubtedly, Guajiro Mirabal, with his trumpet, and guitarist Manuel Galban keep the bar high.
With them will be the lute virtuoso Barbarito Torres and Angel Terry congas.
Everything under the musical direction of trombonist Jesus Aguaje, ensuring good tasty orchestra, something that Cuba witnessed the birth of the Banda Gigante Benny Moré.
The singer will have to Idania Valdes Omara, pianist Rolando Luna impossible to emulate the good and the singer Carlos Rubén Calunga us forget the lovable Ibrahim.
And listen, one more night, "De Alto Cedro going to Marcané, I get to Cueto for Mayarí ..." ('Chan Chan').
Because life goes on 'Buena Vista Social Club'.
Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro
A typical is a group dedicated to playing tangos.
La Fernandez Fierro-name fiction-build their repertoire from his own arrangements, although friendly, traditional tango and its authorship.
In other words, regardless of their own compositions, works of Pugliese, Piazzolla, Carlos Di Sarli, Julio De Caro ...
Their singer, Walter "Chino" Laborde, performs classics such as 'Che bandoneon', Anibal Troilo and Homero Manzi, or 'Song desperate' by Discépolo.
Certainly Laborde's who played the role of Alberto Castillo in Argentina delightful film 'Luna de Avellaneda. "
Twelve musicians renewal, which in recent months have been presented at the Barbican in London and the New Morning in Paris, and played with technical precision and naturalness stage.
His albums, all independent-are 'packaged in origin' (2001), 'Mass Destruction' (2003) and 'Live in Europe' (2004)-named by them as official bootleg ", as well as DVD 'Tango panic' a live show at the club behind the scenes at Buenos Aires in October 2005.
The latter is "A lot of shit ', recorded by the National Library Auditorium in May 2006.
Also act tomorrow in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
At 20:00 hours.
The OTFF, which also can be heard on the collective album 'A Bush is not going to like', stars in the documentary "Typical Orchestra 'by Nicolas Entel.
The producer and film director said that "it all started when I was walking through San Telmo, and saw 12 young rock stars appeared, pushing a piano, then I heard them playing and the sound was produced, while ruthless and powerful. Full of beauty. "
Those of OTFF, arranged in a kind of cooperative, shared tasks.
In the barrio of Abasto have turned an old garage into a theater or concert coffee: Club Atlético Fernández Fierro (CAFF), in Sánchez de Bustamante 764, which offers performances every Saturday.
Before the boys took the pulse of the street on Sundays, weather permitting, playing on a street in San Telmo.
Will they do this?
Source: La Mar de Músicas
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