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Rhythms Del Mundo features collaborations
between an all-star cast of Cuban muscians -
including Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo
of the The Buena Vista Social Clubâ„¢ - with
the hottest UK/US Artists.
The project will be launched in 57 countries
around the world in mid November.
Album proceeds will benefit disaster relief
efforts and climate change awareness.
Rhythms Del Mundo fuses hot Afro-Cuban sounds
with tracks from artists such as U2,
Coldplay, Sting,Radiohead, Jack Johnson and
Maroon 5 as well as some of the buzziest
bands, including The Arctic Monkeys, Franz
Ferdinand, The Kaiser Chiefs and many others.
Arranged by Demitrio Muniz, the main
recording sessions took place in Havana at
Abdala Studios from April 2005 to June 2006.
While the majority of the vocals remain the
same, members of The Buena Vista Social
Clubâ„¢ took the original orchestration from
each song and created something utterly
unique, casting their trademark mastery over
each track. Their noted and exceptional
musicianship seduced even the notoriously
protective Arctic Monkeys into handing over
their track. As a rule, the band has never
licensed their music for compilation albums,
but were so enamoured with the result that
they were happy to have it included on the
album. In addition to the Arctic Monkeys'
track "Dancing Shoes," "Rhythms Del Mundo"
includes reworked tracks such as "Clocks" by
Coldplay, Jack Johnson's "Better Together",
"She Will be Loved" by Maroon 5, "High and
Dry" by Radiohead and others.
Rhythms Del Mundo also includes music by
famed Cuban singers Omara Portuondo and the
last vocal recording of Afro-Cuban bolero
singer, Ibrahim Ferrer, who passed away in
2005. The other Cuban members of The Buena
Vista Social Clubâ„¢ who perform on this
album are as follows: Barbarito Torres,
Amandito Valdes, Virgilio Valdes, Angel Terri
Domech, Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal, Orlando
Lopez 'Cachaito' and Demetrio Muniz.
This project is the brainchild and concept of
Kenny Young and the Berman Brothers. The trio
also produced the 16 new original recordings
on the CD.
Kenny Young, Founder and Trustee of APE,
explains how the project emerged: "The
project was sparked off by the devastating
Tsunami of Christmas 2005. The idea came in
to do a project with members of The Buena
Vista Social Clubâ„¢ to fuse their Latin
sounds with Western artists and their
familiar popular songs. The project evolved
when more environmental disasters struck --
the Asian Earthquakes and Hurricane Katrina.
But the big picture was climate change. You
can call these natural disasters but after
all the research and scientific data, we know
that we're at least partly to blame for some
of these disasters. Global warming is now in
the news daily. If we don't act in the time
frame our experts give us, our grandchildren
will curse us eternally."
The artists on this album fully support the
record as a show of commitment to the music
and to the cause that it endorses. Thom Yorke
comments, "We need a law, we need to have the
Government put climate change in its place.
If you leave industry to sort it out on a
voluntary basis that's never going to happen.
So everybody, if they've got any concerns
about climate, change has to register that
concern with their Government officials
because it's the only way to go."
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