If you like this music, check out Marc Ribot and the Prosethitic Cubans at
www.marcribot.com. This is by far the best guitar playing I have heard in
a long time.
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Tom Whore wrote:
>
> Doughnut and I went to see the filmed documentary of the
> Buena Vista Social Club. Amazing film, full of images and sounds that
> combined seems to have gotten to me in ways i didnt think possible.
>
> The musicians are all older Cuban giants who were mostly all slumbering in
> retirement or obscurity. Ry Coder acted as a quiet catalyst to gather up a
> band of the greats for one last stand of the old sounds Cuban Style.
>
>
> There is a scene where one of the singers walks around NYCity with this
> look of wonder in his eyes, down streets I know better than most people
> and have not been on in more than 2 years.
>
> The images of Cuba are dirgelike but still spark with a kind of hope for
> beauty beyond all hope. To live in the shrouds of hope with music as the
> one thing that sprouts beeauty into your life.....
>
> A must see flick.
>
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