Buena Vista Social Club: Lost And Found (LP)

It was seven days in Havana The Buena Vista Social Club's debut album, also entitled "Buena Vista Social Club", was recorded in 1996. The seven-day recording session with Ry Cooder and Nick Gold in the EGREM studio in Havana is legendary today. Over the years, the album became the most successful album of Cuban music and the best-selling world music album ever. Director Wim Wenders began filming the documentary "Buena Vista Social Club" during the sessions for the album and at some of the subsequent concerts. The film and the major world tour were extremely successful and the Buena Vista Social Club were able to win new friends all over the world for their music from pre-revolutionary Cuba - the "Son Cubano". Since then, everyone involved has been asked time and again whether there is any unreleased material in the archive. And it is precisely this kind of material that can now be found on the new album "Lost And Found". As the name suggests, the recordings were probably lost in the archive. Some of the fourteen new tracks are from the aforementioned recording session, but there are also live recordings from the period immediately after the release of the debut album. "Lost And Found" once again offers the opportunity to hear the line-up from the original studio sessions. Included are Cachaíto López, Guajiro Mirabal, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and the now sadly deceased members of the Buena Vista Social Club Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González and Compay Segundo. The veterans are complemented by younger members who also support the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club on tour. The pieces are proven favorites of the musicians, and "Lágrimas Negras" is still one of the most popular Cuban songs. The sound follows on seamlessly from the debut. In addition to piano, guitars, trombone and bass, the arrangement once again features the laúd and congas. The Buena Vista Social Club invites you to dance with rhythms ranging from rumba to salsa. On "Lost And Found", the Buena Vista Social Club presents true treasures from the archive. The previously unreleased material from the debut album can finally be heard. Almost two decades after the release of the original album, which was awarded a Grammy, the legend of the Buena Vista Social Club lives on with "Lost and Found", a collection of previously unreleased tracks. Some were recorded during the legendary first sessions in Havana with producer Ry Cooder, others during the extraordinarily productive phase that followed.