On November 14, Hip-O Records/Universal Music Enterprises will release Rhythms del Mundo, a collaborative record that unites members of the Buena Vista Social Club with their pasty white musical brethren. After obtaining permission from the various bands to modify their material, the Cuban collective (under the guidance of arranger Demitrio Muniz) created brand new backing tracks for the original vocals of songs like "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "She Will Be Loved".

 

Even Arctic Monkeys, who are known for not loaning their music to anybody, gladly submitted "Dancing Shoes" to the Club.

 

The musicians who play on the album include Barbarito Torres, Amandito Valdes, Virgilio Valdes, Angel Terri Domech, Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, and Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez. Legendary vocalist Omara Portuondo performs a cover of "Killing Me Softly", and duets with the late Ibrahim Ferrer on "Casablanca". Ferrer's contributions to the compilation ("Casablanca" and "As Time Goes By") are his last-ever recordings.

 

As if all that wasn't special enough, Rhythms del Mundo benefits Artists Project Earth, a non-profit that aids natural disaster victims and helps raise awareness of climate change problems.

 

Thom Yorke commented on APE's mission in a press release, stating, "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."

 

Clips from most of the tracks can be heard on the compilation's website. Since this is a benefit album, and everyone involved seems like nice people (except for the guy from Maroon 5), we're going to refrain from saying anything about what this stuff sounds like.

 

Tracklist:

 

01 Coldplay - "Clocks"

02 Jack Johnson - "Better Together"

03 Arctic Monkeys - "Dancing Shoes"

04 Dido & Faithless - "One Step Too Far"

05 Ibrahim Ferrer - "As Time Goes By"

06 U2 and Coco Freeman - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

07 Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"

08 Kaiser Chiefs - "Modern Way"

09 Omara Portuondo - "Killing Me Softly"

10 Vanya Borges feat. Quincy Jones - "Ai No Corrida" *

11 Sting - "Fragilidad"

12 Vanya Borges - "Don't Know Why" *

13 Aquila Rose & Idana Valdez - "Hotel Buena Vista"

14 Coco Freeman & Franz Ferdinand - "The Dark of the Matinee"

15 El Lele de Los Van Van and Radiohead - "High and Dry"

16 Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo - "Casablanca" [bonus track]

 

source: Pitchfork Media

 

samples can be heard here: http://www.rhythmsdelmundo.com/

Clocks sounds amazing, I'd love to get that album, it's such a brilliant idea :D Thanks for the info!!

good stuff, thanks

 

nice fresh new scary(ish) avatar ;)

nice fresh new scary(ish) avatar ;)

 

who would think it's an album cover of a great album by one of the greateat artists of all time? :rolleyes: :P

So good I've never heard of it! If you have a d/l link I might be swayed.... ;)

:freak:

 

I didn't know that's a cover... All I thought when I first saw it was that it's scarish as hell :uhoh:

 

Thanks for the article, by the way.

So good I've never heard of it! If you have a d/l link I might be swayed.... ;)

 

Aphex Twin - Richard D James album (cover of this one is my avatar)

http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=E9KRAYQE

 

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (this album is my favourite of his)

http://rapidshare.de/files/13837110/Selected_Ambient_Works_85-92.zip.html

 

don't know how much you are into electronic pop/techno. but this guy is a genius: "Mozart of intelligent techno" :D

btw, Thom Yorke was influenced by Aphex Twin...a looooot

is there any chance this album will be uploaded ? and by album i mean Rhytms del Mundo :P

is there any chance this album will be uploaded ? and by album i mean Rhytms del Mundo :P

 

it's not even released lol

 

you can be sure, it will be shared here in November ;)

I hope so :D

I absolutely love such experiments with different styles of music! First we had the Coldplay lullabies, now we have Cuban Clocks :P

"Cuban Clocks" sounds great!!! :P

^^Yeah! I'm like dance to it! :P

damn. that cd seems to be fine.

looking forward to its release.

awesome, clock s ia my favourite song and i just love hearing all the versions, this one is cool!

AWESOME!! i love cuban music (buena vista social club CD is amazing) mixing it with some of my fav current music! dreams can come true lol.

R.I.P to all the musicians of the original buena vista who have since passed away.

clocks does sounds really great

 

I can't wait to listen to the full version

 

thanks Nik for the news :P

Radiohead and Kaiser Chiefs spark revival with a sprinkle of Buena Vista magic

 

When the original Buena Vista Social Club record appeared in June 1997, critics hailed the band's revival of the sounds of Cuba's golden era. Few anticipated the worldwide phenomenon that followed, and no one imagined that almost a decade later some of the veteran musicians would find themselves on an album with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Kaiser Chiefs.

 

Next month, however, Universal Music releases Rhythms Del Mundo, on which tracks by these acts and others, including Jack Johnson, Maroon 5 and U2, have been remixed and reinterpreted by surviving members of the Buena Vista collective.

 

The project is the brainchild of Kenny Young, author of classic hits such as 'Under The Boardwalk' and founder of Artists' Project Earth, an arts organisation dedicated to making reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The packaging for the album is claimed to be carbon neutral and a minimum of £2 will be donated from its sale to the project's Natural Disaster Relief and Climate Change Awareness programmes.

 

The biggest surprise is that much of the record works. In their sparse construction, 'Clocks' by Coldplay and 'Better Together' by Jack Johnson lend themselves readily to the addition of claves and horns under the direction of arranger Demetrio Muniz. Radiohead's 'High and Dry' is sung in Spanish by Lele Rosales (borrowed from the group Los Van Van) and sounds wholly different from the original.

 

For purists, the album also features the last performance from the great vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, who died in August 2005, soon after recording 'As Time Goes By'.

 

The only unmitigated disaster involves Arctic Monkeys, whose 'Dancing Shoes' tells such a British story about the perils of trying to pull in a nightclub that it's impossible to enjoy it with a tropical rhythm that strives to smack of Havana elegance. It is billed as the first time the group have licensed a track to a compilation album, though their records have featured in remixed form on a mix CD created by British 'grime' artist Statik, a similarly vexed enterprise.

 

The history of projects such as Nat 'King' Cole's recordings from beyond the grave with his daughter Natalie and Frank Sinatra's album Duets, when he was paired through technological wizardry with singers including Barbra Streisand, is not distinguished. But much of Rhythms Del Mundo proves so charming that you'll forgive the clunky concept.

 

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1922853,00.html

rhythms del mundo

 

 

http://www.rhythmsdelmundo.com/

Clocks' version looks interersting... :)

This has been posted before ;)

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34912

 

But thanks anyway!

(ok, I know this is a bit of an unnecessary bump for a semi-outdated thread, but....)

 

APE (Artists Project Earth) has a Myspace (who doesn't these days, eh?) and somehow I got a friend request. :P

 

Check it out, if you're interested: http://www.myspace.com/120993301

 

Looks like some of the sale proceeds will go to help future natural disaster areas. They are also eager that this album will raise awareness about the devastating (deadly) effects of global climate change.

 

I personally like it! Those lively Cuban rhythms pair up well with their chosen cover songs - especially Arctic Monkeys - Dancing Shoes! - Makes me really want to dance! :dance:

They played the 'Clocks' version on Radio 1 yesterday - it's so funny! I love it! :laugh3:

Oooh how cool that Radio played it - gosh, I LOVE this radio station :D

That's cool :D

who would think it's an album cover of a great album by one of the greateat artists of all time? :rolleyes: :P

Aphex Twin? never heard bout em

Coldplay versus Buena Vista Social Club

 

Just heard this on KCRW a real cool radio station in Los Angleles

Coldplay and The Buena Vista Social Club did a Collaboration on Clocks

It's Chris singing but the music is cuban style ,played by the members of the Buena Vista

really cool.....

the album is called "rhythms del mundo" and has more artists like Jack Johnson U2 Sting Arctic Monkeys and more

i found a link .. http://www.rhythmsdelmundo.com where you can preview