![]() ![]() However with the musicians unable to get visas in time, Cooder and producer Nick Gold improvised and instead decided to record a Cuban son album featuring twenty local musicians. ![]() However the venue would remain active for only a little while due to governmental changes but the impact the club would have on generations to come was monumental.įast forward fifty years to 1996 when guitarist Ry Cooder was invited to Havana to assist in recording a session with African high-life musicians as part of a project for World Circuit Records. That was the exact function of the Buena Vista Social Club as musicians and dancers would regularly come together. Back in the 1940’s, social clubs acted as place for communities to come together with the freedom to express themselves, forgetting about forms of repression. ![]()
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