Buena Vista Social Club Follow-up AfroCubism Release Date Change and Live Dates Announced
. The group will perform two live shows in the States: Town Hall in NYC (November 9) and Berkelee in Boston (November 7). In 1996, a group of Mali's best-known musicians were due to fly into Havana for a collaboration with some of Cuba's singers and instrumentalists. However, the Malians never arrived due to travel complications, and a very different album was recorded instead: The Grammy Award�winning, multi-million-selling Buena Vista Social Club, which became the biggest-selling "world music" album ever. World Circuit Records' Nick Gold, the man behind the 1996 venture, finally brought the original invitees together with a line-up of additional talent at a recent series of recording sessions. On November 2, World Circuit/Nonesuch Records will release the lost Afro-Cuban album, AfroCubism, 14 years after originally planned. Fronting the Cuban team is the cowboy-hatted singer and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, singer of the celebrated Buena Vista theme "Chan Chan." The two original Malian invitees are multi award-winning ngoni lute master Bassekou Kouyate and the acclaimed Rail Band guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, both considered to be among the world's great instrumentalists. Joining them are Ochoa's Grupo Patria, one of Cuba's longest running and most revered bands; the Grammy Award�winning kora master Toumani Diabat�; legendary Malian griot singer Kasse Mady Diabat�; and the innovative balafon player Lassana Diabat�. "It was as though the musicians had been holding back their ideas and energy for that moment," says Gold, who produced the album, with the Buena Vista engineer Jerry Boys at his side. "After we'd waited so long, it all came together remarkably easily and spontaneously. The group had never played together before but the music just poured out and it continued to flow over the next few days." Seventeen songs were recorded in five days, with all the musicians playing together live in one large room. A second session was convened some months later and produced a further nine songs. Click here to read today's full Day in Pop report Preview and Purchase AfroCubism CDs |
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