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Album Review | Buena Vista Social Club – Lost and Found
Words by Philip Sweeney These BVSC leftover recordings are surprisingly tasty The first Buena Vista-brand release in a long while, accompanying the live band’s alleged final tour, this is a selection...
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Live Review | Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club farewell tour, April 5
Photography by Carlos Pericás Jon Lusk attended Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club’s show at the Royal Albert Hall on April 5 as they say goodbye on their Adios tour. Having effectively revitalised...
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The Songlines Essential 10: Cuban Albums
With Buena Vista Social Club bidding the world adios, Jane Cornwell reminds us of a wealth of releases that prove Cuba has always been a musical powerhouse Afro-Cuban Allstars A Toda Cuba Le Gusta...
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Ibrahim Ferrer: The Tail of a Comet
In 2003 Peter Culshaw headed to Cuba to meet Ibrahim Ferrer and find out what had changed five years after the Buena Vista phenomenon “It’s the end of a dream. We caught the tail end of a comet,” says...
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Manana – Cuba’s first electronic music festival
When Harry Follett moved to Santiago de Cuba, he met Cuban musician Alain Garcia Artola and together they set up a temporary studio where they recorded various folkloric music from Cuba. Inspired,...
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Win Buena Vista Social Club on double vinyl!
Win one of two copies of Buena Vista Social Club on double vinyl by entering our competition Buena Vista Social Club, recorded over seven days in Havana, Cuba, was released almost two decades ago in...
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