Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall, released last week on high-grade vinyl and set for release as a double CD next Tuesday, is featured on the latest edition of NPR's All Songs Considered. The show's host, Bob Boilen, introduces "Silencio," the touching duet between Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo, by saying of the entire set: "What I love about this music is how gently it all hangs together. It's both relaxed and precise at the same time."
Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall, released last week on high-grade vinyl and set for release as a double CD October 14, is featured on the latest edition of NPR's All Songs Considered. The show's host, Bob Boilen, introduces the song "Silencio," the touching duet between singers Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo that closed the famed 1998 concert captured on the album, with this description of the Buena Vista phenomenon:
For all the fame and fuss the Buena Vista Social Club brought to the world music scene, the Cuban supergroup only put out one CD. Sure, there were plenty of solo projects and a documentary film, but the 1997 best-selling world-music CD was the only one the band released. Now comes record number two. It's a live album recorded in the summer of '98 at Carnegie Hall. Some of that concert was in the documentary the German filmmaker Wim Wenders did. Now you can hear the full concert on a two-CD set simply called At Carnegie Hall.
What I love about this music is how gently it all hangs together. It's both relaxed and precise at the same time.
You can listen to the episode of All Songs Considered online or download the podcast at npr.org.
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