The so-called social club, social club, disappeared after the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The social club that I was looking for at the beginning of "Le Shi Fu Sheng Lu" has become a private residence. After 1959, Cuba faced a new situation in politics, history, and economy. In terms of music, the Cuban government encourages the "House of Traditional Poetry and Ballads" to replace social clubs with a sense of class. The Poetry and Ballad House mostly sings traditional classical Cuban ballads, and the orchestra is usually simple to organize, including guitars, Maracas (sand bells), Congas (a kind of tambourine), etc., and seldom uses large-organized orchestras. Generally, Cubans can walk into the home of poetry and ballads at night to listen to these traditional ballads. Many of the recording works that everyone sees on the market, including the five major recording labels, or Cuban music released by ECM, are recorded in Shiyao Zhijia.

Interestingly, the original plan of Buena Vista Social Club was not intended to be the style we hear now. This project is hosted by the British World Circuit record company. World Circuit has a history of about ten years and specializes in Latin American and African music. The albums produced include some important musicians in the history of Cuban music. At that time, World Circuit wanted to put together African and Cuban musicians to perform together, and find out the relationship between these two kinds of music in history. They originally found two African musicians to come to Cuba, but these two musicians did not show up. Ry Cooder and the record company staff, who had already arrived in Havana at the time, had to start looking for some old local musicians to record. Buena Vista Social Club. Because of this, it rewrote the entire history of Latin music today.

Although it is not recorded in a top recording studio, the quality is not the best. However, through Ruben Gonzalez's sensual piano sound, Omara Portuondo's full magnetic bass and Ibrahim Ferrer's strong singing voice will lead the audience to experience the Latin music style.

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Eduardo 2022-03-29 09:01:07

The old old singers found their love of music.
Aryanna 2022-03-19 09:01:07

The last paragraph of the archives 2013.8.8.7pm cross-edited the two concerts, bright and cheerful and dark and steady, regaining fame and silence for more than ten years, New York street scenes and Havana waves, the singing and the lens are enough to make people intoxicated. Swaying to be crisp, but a little sad after all. The presentation of the old musicians one by one seems random, but in fact it is very hierarchical. Social Club, Castro and Che in the opening album, were downplayed and highlighted the revolution.