First Listen: Buena Vista Social Club, 'Lost And Found' — npr.org

Buena Vista Social Club's new album, Lost And Found, comes out March 24. Courtesy of the artist hide caption Buena Vista Social Club's new album, Lost And Found, comes out March 24. It was nearly 20 years ago, back in 1997, that the Buena Vista Social Club became an improbable worldwide sensation: a group of mainly elderly (and some younger) Cuban musicians, performing traditional son music for an album produced by Ry Cooder. The combustible success of that first project — which only transpired by accident to begin with — led to a cottage industry of lovely artifacts, including a beautiful 1998 documentary by Wim Wenders and a string of solo albums from its leading artists (not to mention 2010's Afrocubism, the fruit of World Circuit chief Nick Gold's original idea for what became the Buena Vista Social Club's first album).

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