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VHS : Buena Vista Social Club [1999]starring: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben González, Eliades Ochoa, Ry Cooder directed by: Wim Wenders
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long since retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy-winning international bestseller. When Cooder returned to Havana in 1998 to record a solo album by 72-year-old vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, filmmaker Wim Wenders was on hand to document the occasion. Wenders splits the film between portraits of the performers, who tell their stories directly to the camera as they wander the streets and neighbourhoods of Havana, and a celebration of the music heard in performance scenes in the studio, in their first concert in Amsterdam, and in their second and final concert at Carnegie Hall. The songs are too often cut short in this fashion, but Buena Vista Social Club is not a concert film. Wenders weaves the artist biographies with a glimpse of modern Cuba remembering its past, capturing a lost culture in music that is suddenly, unexpectedly revived for audiences in Havana and around the world. Wenders makes his presence practically invisible, as if his directorial flourishes or off-screen narration might deflect attention from the artists, who do a fine job of telling their own stories through interviews and music. It's a loving portrait of a master class in Cuban music, with a vital cast of ageing performers whose energy and passion belie their years. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Buena Vista Social Club VideoBeautiful soul stirring rhythms of yesterday combined with enlightening views of Cuba today. A truly wonderful video. Rating: - A TOUR OF LOVEThis has one amazing Spanish ballet, with English lyrics!!! I also have 2 CD's from the Spanish stars. It is worth buying the CD's which have booklets as they have excellent translations, and they are new recordings, though the music of the DVD is not repeated on the CD's. Rating: - Excellent Cuban DiscoveryThe Buena Vista Social club is a fascinating look at Afro-Cuban music and concerns itself with US artist Ry Cooder and his dream being fulfilled wherein he records and plays live with some old grand masters of the Cuban sound. The Cubans are amazing guys with great personalities and incredible life stories. Singer Ibrahim Ferrer and the great pianist, Ruben Gonzalez, are particularly captivating personalities. The great thing that comes across is the sheer enjoyment of these musicians and ... Read More Rating:  - 3 stars for the doc film - the music is another matter.The music on this dvd is magic, with the proviso that I really think Ry Cooder should have stayed in the control room/off-stage and out of the mix. Slide guitar has no place in this music. It's very puzzling to me that Cooder failed to see that. Perhaps Wenders's comment that Cooder "kept to the back row" in the concerts and was way back in the sound mix indicates that a couple of years after the audio disc was released, Cooder himself had come to that conclusion. The fact that there are ... Read More Rating: - Far more than the sum of its (very rhythmic) partsI got the CD for Christmas and to be honest, only really like two or three tracks. But the film knocked my socks off. It's effectively a series of film portraits of great Cuban musicians, a record of their music and a recording of two concerts where they all came together in Amsterdam and in Carnegie Hall. But the sum of its parts is far more than that. The filming is clever - it moves easily from recording session to interview to monologue to just great music. There's no obvious ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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