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In a spectacular clash of genres unprecedented since the SoulWax lads mashed up your fave tracks of the last 30 years, comes the new release Rhythms Del Mundo from the Buena Vista Social Club's very own Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo.
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Rhythms Del Mundo brings together the Afro-Cuban sounds of The Buena Vista Social Club with tracks from contemporary artists such as U2, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys and The Kaiser Chiefs. It also features the amazing vocals from famed Cuban vocalists, Omara Portuonda, and the last ever recording of the much revered Ibrahim Ferrer. The album is in aid of Artists Project Earth (APE), which lends support for natural disaster relief and climate change awareness. Universal Music Enterprises will donate a portion of its proceeds from sales of the album in the United States to the Music Rising campaign, an instrument replacement fund for musicians of the Gulf Coast.
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 died in 2005. The other Cuban musicians from The Buena Vista Social Club 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.
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.
Track listing
1. Clocks – Coldplay
2. Better Together - Jack Johnson
3. Dancing Shoes - Arctic Monkeys
4. One Step Too Far - Dido & Faithless
5. As Time Goes By - Ibrahim Ferrer
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Coco Freeman & U2
7. She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
8. Modern Way - Kaiser Chiefs
9. Killing Me Softly - Omara Portuondo
10. Ai No Corrida - Vania Borges & Quincy Jones
11. Fragilidad - Sting
12. Don't Know Why - Vania Borges
13. Hotel Buena Vista - Aquila Rose & Idana Valdes
14. The Dark of the Matinee - Coco Freeman & Franz Ferdinand
15. High and Dry - El Lele De Los Van Van & Radiohead
Bonus track: 16. Casablanca - Ibrahim & Omara
Rhythms Del Mundo is out now through Hip-O Records/Universal Music Enterprises.
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Bono, Buena Vista Social Club, Coldplay, Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Indie, Kaiser Chiefs, Latin Music, New Music, Radiohead, Soulwax, Sting, The Arctic Monkeys, Thom Yorke, U2
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Posted on 11/20/2006
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