Buena Vista Social Club

[Old Grumpy]

Or members thereof on World on 3 tonight:



Lopa Kothari - Buena Vista Social Club - World on 3

Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe, plus a live session with Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa of the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, now making their farewell tour.

Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa also featured on In Tune yesterday - within the last 45 minutes of the programme (1:16:36 onwards).

OG

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Or members thereof on World on 3 tonight:



Lopa Kothari - Buena Vista Social Club - World on 3

Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe, plus a live session with Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa of the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, now making their farewell tour.

Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa also featured on In Tune yesterday - within the last 45 minutes of the programme.

OG

Very well written piece (as usual) at Richard Williams' "Blue Moment" music blog on memories of BV and Cuba etc.

BN.

[Globaltruth]

The album accompanying the tour is already on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1fZmMKEOWePGgosLE7npHx), the official Youtube trailer from World Circuit records is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtPNr34LvZU

a sample track here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwC94A-ITU

all good to listen to whilst reading the Richard Williams piece

http://thebluemoment.com/

or just listen again to Lopa's show....

[Richard Tarleton]

I loved Eliades Ochoa's song on In Tune, just before the news, with translation of the interview in real time (enabling enjoyment of his Cuban Spanish accent, consonants in short supply ) - charmingly he had to be reminded by the translator which song he was supposed to be singing, but it was fine.

[Old Grumpy]

The album accompanying the tour is already on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1fZmMKEOWePGgosLE7npHx)

Thanks for the link GT. I was just wondering what to listen to next...

... That'll do nicely!

OG

[johncorrigan]

Nick Gold from World Circuit records is on Cerys this morning on 6 Music talking about Buena Vista and playing some of the live tracks from the recently released record...and Tom Brosseau is also making an appearance live - some very good stuff on his new record.

[Lat-Literal]

Lost and Found:

Deduct points for cliched, international phenomenon, re-tread, blood out of a stone, but have you heard the version by, offcuts and ragbag collection. That's an instruction to professional critics who don't need instruction. On planet earth and without the obstructive nuances - let's face it the NME always did those better - this is a wonderful cd as in wonderfully enjoyable. Mind you, I do have Ruben Gonzalez as the pianist in my super group of all super groups so I'd decided beforehand. At my age, I can do things like that.

In its full glory if not streamlined for the i-pod - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-uJj_FWRk0

(Love it, love it, love it........damn, that's a gush)