Eliades Ochoa to present Buena Vista Social Club new record

The sequence of the Buena Vista Social Club historic records, a third recording in which participate the survivors of that group of virtuosos, will be presented in Mexico at Los Angeles room on June 13.

Eduardo Llerenas and Mary Farquharson from Corason records made the announcement at the same time that Nick Gold, who offers details of the album from London. This record will attract Cuban music lovers. 

Joyas encontradas (‘Lost and Found’ in its English version) is a World Circuit production launched in Mexico by Discos Corason. It’s a collection of 13 unpublished themes recorded between 1996 and 2004.

Eliades Ochoa, one of the members of Buena Vista Social Club, will attend the album presentation in Mexico accompanied by the Patria group.   

Thirteen unpublished themes

Almost 20 years from the presentation of the first record, that won a Grammy prize, this third production has unpublished themes, some of which were studio outtakes during working sessions with the original producer, North American Ry Cooder, at Egrem recording house in Havana.

Gold remembered one time when, after concluding a recording, Ochoa got alone in the studio and started to play his guitar singing a little song. This attracted the attention of the staff that began to record it without him to realize. This theme is now included in Joyas encontradas.

The two previous albums were recorded in Havana, the first one, and the second one at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Gold explained that for years he had wandered if he had kept unpublished material from these sessions and he discovered that there was material for some 30 themes.    

Source: CubaSí