‘Buena Vista Social Club’ 30th Anniversary Edition is available now on Special Double Vinyl via World Circuit Records, marking the third in a series of re-releases celebrating the prestigious label’s 40th Anniversary.
Produced by Ry Cooder and Executive Produced by Nick Gold, the classic multi-million-selling Grammy Award-winning album will be reissued on ‘pearl sunrise’ colour double-LP, reflecting pearl’s long-standing association with 30-year anniversaries.
The history, authenticity and mystique of ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ burns as brightly today as ever for fans both new and old.
On 26 March 1996, the trio of Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos González, American producer and guitarist Ry Cooder, and British producer and label owner Nick Gold assembled an impromptu group of Cuban musicians at Centro Havana’s historic 1950’s EGREM/Areito studios.
The majority of those gathered were celebrated veterans of the golden age of the Cuban music scene of the 1940s and ’50s. None of them had any idea that the recordings they were about to produce would change the lives of many people, themselves included, and would forever change the standing of Cuban music in the world.
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ was the name given to both this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days. The studio, owned by Cuba’s national label EGREM, was originally installed in the 1940s and is celebrated as a great jewel in recording history.
- Chan Chan
- De Camino a La Vereda
- El Cuarto de Tula
- Pueblo Nuevo
- Dos Gardenias
- ¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho?
- Veinte Años
- El Carretero
- Candela
- Amor de Loca Juventud
- Orgullecida
- Murmullo
- Buena Vista Social Club
- La Bayamesa
- Vicenta
- La Pluma
- A Tus Pies
- La Cleptómana
- Orgullecida (Alternate Trio Take)
Discover the Buena Vista Social Club 30th Anniversary Edition and explore the story behind one of the most celebrated Cuban music recordings of the past three decades.
