After over a year of experimentation and working in Havana's Abdala Studios, the Cuban musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club have completed their work with the currently most successful international artists.
The result is called "Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba" and presented hits like "Clocks" by Coldplay, "I Still Have not Found What I'm Looking For" by U2 and "The Dark of the Matinee" by Franz Ferdinand - in style manufactures of Cuban music collective, but sung by the original artists.
The producers have even managed to win in this respect, otherwise very restrained Arctic Monkeys for 'Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba ". Rearranged by Demitrio Muniz, the Cubans have breathed into the songs of their colleagues from the West new luster in Son sound.
After Ibrahim Ferrer, the voice of the Social Club project, died a year ago, have Latin America's great singer Omara Portuonda, the only woman in the club, and the All Stars Barbarito Torres, Amandito Valdes, Virgilio Valdes, Angel Terri Domech, Manuel ` Guajiro 'Mirabal, Orlando Lopez' Cachaito 'and Demetrio Muniz continued their joint work. Ferrer they intend to "Rhythms Del Mundo" with the release of the last vocal recording.
The Buena Vista Social Club has since the late 1990s with the help of Ry Cooder (music production) and Wim Wenders (documentation) made a name as a True traditional-timeless Son rhythms.
With "Rhythms Del Mundo" support all artists involved in the project as well as Universal Music, the British organization APE (Artists Project Earth) in their "Stop Global Warming" campaign. APE is an association of scientists, artists, journalists and filmmakers and has fully devoted to environmental protection. Currently occurs APE foremost for victim assistance in natural disasters, and also strives to foment a new awareness of the dangers of climate change and global warming. "If we do not act now, our grandchildren will curse us forever," says the songwriter, producer and APE founding father Kenny Young, referring to the Indian Ocean tsunami on Christmas 2004, a devastating earthquake in Asia and Hurricane Katrina (August 2005 ).