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| Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall(2 CD) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Buena Vista Social Club
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 372
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 514415
UPC: 075597987317
EAN: 0075597987317
ASIN: B001DCEZE6
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Chan Chan | | • | De Camino a la Vereda | | • | El Cuarto de Tula | | • | La Enganadora | | • | Buena Vista Social Club | | • | Dos Gardenias | | • | Quizas, Quizas | | • | Veinte Anos |
Disc 2
| • | Orgullecida | | • | Y Tu Que Has Hecho? | | • | Siboney | | • | Mandinga | | • | Almendra | | • | El Carretero | | • | Candela | | • | Silencio |
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Product Description
The landmark Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall-July 1, 1998-was both the start of a remarkable story and the culmination of a dream. This one-time-only event elevated veteran Cuban performers like Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo and Omara Portuondo to long-overdue status as international stars, and it transformed the BVSC's already critically acclaimed album into a commercial juggernaut. Since then, the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, recorded at Havana's Egrem Studio by guitarist Ry Cooder, has sold over eight million copies, making it the best-selling world music album ever, and the 'Buena Vista Social Club Presents' imprimatur has come to represent an unwavering mark of quality. The evening also became the dramatic heart of German filmmaker Wim Wenders' popular, Oscar-nominated documentary, also called Buena Vista Social Club. No one who saw it could be unmoved by the sight of an elderly performer like Ferrer taking in the skyscraper vistas of New York City or being overwhelmed by rapturous applause after he sang. This live set, then, is the crucial link to everything that happened before or after the Buena Vista Social Club as a group of musicians and as a brand; it's the album fans have eagerly awaited for a decade.
'With the bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero,' said The New York Times in a review of the concert, 'the Buena Vista Social Club simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of its musicians and mourned the era they embody.' The cultural significance of BVSC's performance was matched by its political momentousness; this concert offered a rare opportunity for these master Cuban musicians, coming together for the first time as a single ensemble, to freely play their classic songs for an American audience. This two-CD set preserves an important, but sadly evanescent, moment when borders and bureaucracies miraculously disappeared in the name of art. As singer Portuondo, who would subsequently embark on her own successful American tour, recalled, 'I felt triumphant seeing how we all worked together as a group, seeing how the music reached the audience...We felt so elated to be able to share our music. All of us had known each other for many years and played together many times, but it was a unique and unrepeatable occasion that our culture and our roots could reach the public through such a beautiful concert with all of us there together on the stage.'
To build awareness and anticipation for the live set, Nonesuch released a digital single of 'Chan Chan,' the concert's opening number and arguably the
BVSC's signature song, on July 1, the 10th anniversary of the concert date. The two-disc package also includes candid, often quite moving, first-person reminiscences from many of the surviving participants about the days-and hours-leading up to the concert and the once-in-a-lifetime experience of the evening itself. As album producer and fellow performer Cooder puts it, '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. You'll never hear it again, people of this caliber working together. They were dramatic personalities and they're nearly all gone. There's nobody left like that anymore.'
Album Description
Two CD set. Buena Vista Social Club, the Grammy Award-winning 1997 World Circuit/Nonesuch Records album produced by Ry Cooder, is the biggest-selling world music album ever. The 2008 release is meticulously mixed and mastered by Cooder and World Circuit label head Nick Gold. It features performances by the original Buena Vista Social Club musicians including Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Cachaito Lopez and Guajiro Mirabal.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
If you're a fan, this ups the ante October 16, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The studio BVSC recording is timeless, I've had it since it first came out and I return to it often, I liken it to a warm breeze on a sunny Saturday afternoon, ultimately relaxing. This live version contains some of the same songs but a bunch of new ones as well. What makes this new recording really stand out is the energy that the live setting brings to this music. I can't really call it improvisational but there is an extra looseness to the proceedings, little instrumental accents where the studio versions seemed more "by the book". Easy 5 stars. It must be noted however, this could have fit on a single disc, but that's a micro caveat given the quality of the music itself. The notes are top notch as well.
Wonderful! Film? And why, Ry? October 21, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Superb in every way--this is the temporary fix for all of us who watched Wim Wender's documentary and were enraptured by the film clips of the BVSC members at Carnegie--all too brief clips of masters at work. So, for those of you who want a work of art, a masterpiece of voice, guitar, piano, trumpet, saxophone, drums and more, this is it!
Two small bumps: When can we get the DVD of the concert in full? I am sure I am not the only one who craves to SEE these musicians actually singing and playing!
And finally, it's great that Ry Cooder was the mastermind behind this and so my following complaint is muted but...it's annoying that HIS name is top of the CD's sticker, HIS name is top of the poster seen on the cover, and when you watch BVSC, the film clips often cut to Cooder, who had about 2% of the total musical load in this whole thing. BVSC is, IMHO, solely and fully about a group of amazing Cubans, not a white guy from the USA. Cooder is of course an excellent musician in his own right but he does NOT deserve to be shown equally with Ibrahim, Ruben, Compay, etc. It feels like egoistic pandering to the producer, and it's annoying. Cash your producer checks Ry and enjoy the fruits of your labor but DON'T try and hog the limelight from the BVSC! After 80 years of obscurity, they deserve it all. But thank you for bringing them to the world!
It's more than good music October 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Listen to them...it's a celebration of life. I can't imagine how anyone could not feel something deep inside while listening to this recording. Yes, it was stretched into 2 discs, but for the Amazon price that doesn't matter. But, what is most amazing to me is the obvious appreciation this group has for the chance to perform. They don't mail in a performance as we sometimes hear from others.
Music that makes you happy October 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
So it's Monday morning and you are just waking up and you're not ready for your week yet. What to do? 10 minutes of BVSC. Anything, whether it's Omara, Manuel, Ibrahim, Compay I swear 10 minutes of BVSC is enough to kick start your week. Then walk to work (I can, I am lucky) with a bit of Ibrahim on and you are ready to face anyone and anything!
Of course your parents also like this music and the whole world has spoken about the significance of this album, concert and phenomenon. My folks behave like young teens again trying to dance around the living room like in the old days. That is the music we listen to? Why not. The proof however is my 2 year old niece. I put on the Carnegie Hall CD, she stands on my feet and dances with me. I defy you to sit still. We can't. I travel to the forests of Asia, put my BVSC on and the locals start dancing automatically with me. Try it...
 Very good performance but it could have been released on one CD October 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although a big fan of Buena Vista Social Club and its performers, I was expecting the whole Carnegie Hall show including comments between songs and also the reprise of Chan Chan at the end of the show. I had the oportunity to see Compay Segundo twice and his comments between songs were worth the admission ticket for the show. The same could be said for Ibrahim which I also saw in concert.
The performance and recording are very good, and considering the historic value of the event it is a must have assuming you already have the studio album. I wished they had released the whole Carnegie Hall and Amsterdam shows on DVD instead.
As another writer mentioned, this release could have been done on one CD instead of two CD's. It appears as very greedy behavior from Nonesuch to release this show as a two CD set. I hope the performers and the families of those who have died will receive the appropriate royalties from this release.
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