Rhythms del Mundo - CUBA

• This unique compilation project brings together the legendary musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club,
some of today’s most popular music stars Chris Martin (Coldplay), Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Sting,
Bono, Radiohead among others, performing collaborations of some of their classic hits.


Tracklisting:
COLDPLAY Clocks
STING Fragilidad
JACK JOHNSON Better Together
ARCTIC MONKEYS Dancing Shoes
DIDO AND FAITHLESS One Step Too Far
IBRAHIM FERRER As Time Goes By
U2 WITH COCO FREEMAN
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
FRANZ FERDINAND The Dark Of the Matinee
VANYA AND RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO Don’t Know Why
KAISER CHIEFS Modern Way
GORILLAZ Feel Good Inc.
OMARA PORTUONDO Killing Me Softly
AQUILA ROSE AND IDANIA VALDEZ Hotel Buena Vista
MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved
VANYA AND RDM FEATURING QUINCY JONES Ai No Corrida
LELE’ FEATURING RADIOHEAD High And Dry

Released on November 2006 Through Hip-O Records/Universal Music Enterprises Featuring collaborations from members of The Buena Vista Social Club and the hottest US/UK artists of the moment

Album proceeds will benefit disaster relief efforts and climate change awareness

FEATURES LAST EVER RECORDING BY IBRAHIM FERRER

ONLY COMPILATION ALBUM TO INCLUDE A TRACK BY THE ARCTIC MONKEYS

Hip-O Records/Universal Music Enterprises released Rhythms Del Mundo, an exciting collaborative album, which fuses the hot Afro-Cuban sounds of The Buena Vista Social Club with tracks from today's biggest artists such as U2, Coldplay, Sting, Jack Johnson and Maroon 5 as well as some of the buzziest bands, including The Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Kaiser Chiefs and many others. It also features the amazing vocals from famed Cuban vocalists, Omara Portuonda, and the last ever recording of the much beloved Ibrahim Ferrer. The album is in aid of Artists Project Earth (APE), which lends support for natural disaster relief and climate change awareness. Universal Music Enterprises will donate a portion of its proceeds from sales of the album in the United States to the Music Rising campaign, an instrument replacement fund for musicians of the Gulf Coast.

Rhythms Del Mundo is an electrifying album that fuses music of different cultures and comes up with a melting pot of rare sounds. Arranged by Demitrio Muniz, the main recording sessions took place in Havana at Abdala Studios from April 2005 to June 2006. While the majority of the vocals remain the same, The Buena Vista Social Club took the original orchestration from each song and created something utterly unique casting their trademark mastery over each track. Their noted and exceptional musicianship seduced even the notoriously protective Arctic Monkeys into handing over their track. As a rule, the band has never licensed their music for compilation albums, but were so enamoured with the result that they were happy for it to be included on the album. As well as The Arctic Monkeys' track "Dancing Shoes", Rhythms Del Mundo includes reworked tracks such as "Clocks" by Coldplay, "Better Together" by Jack Johnson, "She Will be Loved" by Maroon 5, "High and Dry" by Radiohead and others.

Rhythms Del Mundo also includes music by famed Cuban singers Omara Portuondo and the last vocal recording of Afro-Cuban bolero singer, Ibrahim Ferrer, who died tragically in 2005. The other Cuban musicians from The Buena Vista Social Club who perform on this album are as follows: Barbarito Torres, Amandito Valdes, Virgilio Valdes, Angel Terri Domech, Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal, Orlando Lopez 'Cachaito' and Demetrio Muniz.

Kenny Young, producer and Founder/Trustee of APE, explains how the project emerged: "The project was sparked off by the devastating Tsunami of Xmas 2005. The idea came in to do a project with The Buena Vista Social Club to fuse their Latin sounds with Western artists and their familiar popular songs. The project evolved when more environmental disasters struck - the Asian Earthquakes and Hurricane Katrina. But the big picture was climate change. You can call these natural disasters but after all the research and scientific data, we know that we're at least partly to blame for some of these disasters. Global warming is now in the news daily. If we don't act in the time frame our experts give us, our grandchildren will curse us eternally.

The artists on this album fully support the record as a show of commitment to the music and to the cause that it endorses. Thom Yorke comments, '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.'

The packaging for the album is carbon neutral.

Rhythms Del Mundo is released on November 14, 2006 through Hip-O Records/Universal Music Enterprises.

For more information on the charities that will benefit from this album go to www.Apeuk.org and to www.musicrising.org.

http://www.rhythmsdelmundo.com/