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Since the release of their album which included a surprise contribution from Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club fame on “Que Pasa Contigo,” (“We get in monthly bridge tournaments with him, and we asked him over one time and were like, ‘Would you sing?’ and he was like, ‘No,’ but we won a bunch of money from him, and he was like, ‘Well, I’ll sing,’” says...
Among the most popular and financially successful Norwegian films ever, Jensen's "documusical" has been lauded at numerous film festivals. One critic aptly dubbed it an Arctic version of Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders' 1998 documentary about a legendary group of Cuban musicians. "The people up here don't take themselves too seriously," says Jensen, himself a Finnmark native. "The farther north you go in Norway, the more Latin the mentality...
...which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section has to rein in their polyrhythmic tendencies a little, but the momentum is great. At times Ozo sound, to their credit, a bit like a sublimely rejuvenated and bass-heavy Buena Vista Social Club, with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like “Guerrillero.” Which makes Kanetic Source’s rap in the middle of “Dos Cosas Ciertas” sound a little like a mic-rush...
Favorite Song: “Pueblo Nuevo” by Buena Vista Social Club
HAVANA BALL In 1996 American blues guitarist Ry Cooder gathers some of the greatest veteran performers in Cuban music to collaborate on the album Buena Vista Social Club. The success of the bestselling, Grammy-winning recording spawns a documentary of the same name by Wim Wenders, as well as a worldwide tour, and brings the lilting, sensuously rhythmic music from the old Havana of the 1940s and '50s to an international audience...