Russ Slater - 29/Nov/2010  In 1996, Nick Gold, head of World Circuit Records, invited Ry Cooder to record a collaboration between musicians from Cuba and Mali in Havana. Cooder ...
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| Banning Eyre - 01/Nov/2010 Even without its novel-like back story, Afrocubism is a project of insane ambition. Cuba’s Eliades Ochoa (tres, cuatro, vocals), as well as Malian ma...
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| David Font-Navarrete - 01/Nov/2010 AfroCubism - "Al Vaiven De Mi Carreta" (AfroCubism)AfroCubism is the realization of producer Nick Gold?s simple concept: take a handful of Malian musi...
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| Don Yates - 01/Nov/2010 World Circuit Records’ Nick Gold attempted to bring some of the finest Cuban and Malian musicians together in 1996, but when that project fell through...
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Scott Kara - 30/Oct/2010  A collaboration between African and Cuban musicians was what the Buena Vista Social Club was originally meant to be, 14 years ago. But the players fro...
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| Andy Thomas - 13/Oct/2010 In 1996, World Circuit planned to record a Mali meets Cuba album in Havana, but the Malian musicians never made it to the studio. What happened instea...
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Daniel Paton - 11/Oct/2010  Whilst the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club was initially sold as the fruits of Ry Cooder's Cuban explorations, both in publicity material and i...
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| Robin Denselow - 07/Oct/2010 AfroCubism are a supergroup with a history that would make any publicist drool, and an album that almost does justice to their considerable talents. F...
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| Neil Spencer - 03/Oct/2010 This summit meeting between the grandees of Cuban and Malian music was originally intended as part of the Buena Vista Social Club, an acknowledgment o...
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World Music
19.557
- Africa 708- Arabia 176- Asia 2.701- New Age/Meditation 157- South Sea 68- Worldbeat 15.747
