Every now and then I need some new impetus to expand my musical horizons. Looking for such impulses I've encountered a few years ago on the Wim Wenders film "Buena Vista Social Club", the documentary focused on the lives of several Cuban musicians. The music, primarily known as the "Son", inspired me so much that I decided to occupy myself deeper into her. What impressed me most about her is the joy of life, it exudes. While rich and supersaturated European and North American musicians like to do before to Weltschmerz, the present music should be noted that life-affirming attitude of their performers. And, although it was traditionally so rather written and played by poor, living on the poverty line people. Of this we can perhaps learn a lot if we complain about in our industrialized countries about how cruel the world is now, and at supper the latest images motionless us of the trouble spots of the world and without comment view to subsequently complain about the rising fuel prices. All this you can feel not on the CD. To me she seems like from another planet. The "simplicity" of the people who make this music, has something hearty Refreshing what the music but often lacking in our culture. And then there's the virtuosity of the old masters to mention. The apparent ease with which they play their instruments and technically challenging passages do with the left. I was particularly impressed in this regard, the pianist Rubén González, who, at that time appears to have been about 80 years old, the nimble fingers of a teenager. Unereicht is also the over 90-year-old Compay Segundo, whose rascal-like charm and charisma are very engaging. The only disturbing element Ry Cooder's slide guitar are deposits which somehow seem out of place - but is hardly worth mentioning. Anyone who buys the CD, should address sooner or later sometimes with a major motion picture, because it makes it easier to understand the relationships and illustrates the living conditions and the careers of the musicians on a well-comprehensible manner.