Buena Vista Social Club (25th Anniversary Special Edition) (Vinyl LP Boxset) Soundtracks & Library

Buena Vista Social Club (25th Anniversary Special Edition) (Vinyl LP Boxset) Soundtracks & LibraryBuena Vista Social Club is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana's 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the recording sessions that something very special was taking place. However, no one could have predicted that Buena Vista Social Club would become a worldwide phenomenon awarded a Grammy in 1997 and, at 8 million copies, outselling any

all on coloured vinyl

GoGo Penguin

here adds rough edges and flashes of mystery with his cutting protest rocker Long Time Gone and the exquisite art-folk of Guinnevere

Doin' the Thang sounds like the title of a soul-jazz release

For this 2001 album

Like all Jansch work it fizzes with invention

from the dub tango of La Nota on the A side

Backed by her husband Lukas Lindholm on bass she was able to lay down some seriously funky bass lines on tracks like Don't and Beatmaker

and due to either sheer chutzpah or wily cunning

nearly bursting through the grooves on the expansive and mind-blowing seven minute rendition of "Colors

And you can feel this in his tracks for Toy Tonics

heavily swung electronica cut featuring Larry Houl