Buena Mesa (2012)

Soidemersol is the 1997 album by Spanish alternative Latin pop band La Buena Vida. This came out on Siesta via Mercury Spain.

Buena Vista Social Club is the debut album by the eponymous ensemble of Cuban musicians directed by Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder. It was recorded at Havana's EGREM studios in March 1996 and released on September 16, 1997, on World Circuit. Despite its success, it remains the only standard studio album exclusively credited to the Buena Vista Social Club. Buena Vista Social Club earned considerable critical praise and has received numerous accolades from music writers and publications. In 2003, the album was ranked number 260 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, one of only two albums on the list to be produced in a non-English speaking country. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The album was awarded the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album and Tropical/Salsa Album of the Year by a Group at the 1998 Billboard Latin Music Awards.

One of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of all Time", the platinum-selling album topped multiple charts, including Billboard's Top World and Latin Charts, Buena Vista Social Club was one of the biggest surprise hits of the early 2000's, triggering an international revival in Cuban music. Spearheaded by Grammy-winning guitarist Ry Cooder and producer Nick Gold, the project brought together some of Cuba's greatest musical luminaries, including legendary bassist Orlando "Cachaito" López, guitarist Eliades Ochoa, musical director Juan de Marcos González, and acclaimed pianist Rubén González.

'Buena Vista Social Club' is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana's 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the recording sessions that something very special was taking place. However, no one could have predicted that Buena Vista Social Club would become a worldwide phenomenon - awarded a Grammy in 1997 and, at 8 million copies, outselling any other record in the same genre.

Unreleased recordings from the original Buena Vista Social Club sessions, artists sessions and iconic live performances. Buena Vista Social Club released in 1997 is one of the biggest selling world music album of all time and its great, this collection will fulfill any long-term fans! Coming almost two decades after the release of the original Grammy-winning, self-titled LP, Buena Vista Social Club's "Lost and Found" album is a collection of previously unreleased tracks—some of which were recorded during the original album’s sessions in Havana and others from the years that followed.

Featuring cellist Thomas Mesa and pianist Michelle Cann, OUR STORIES from Navona Records aims to raise the voices of composers and performers from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in classical music. Made possible by PARMA Recordings and a Sphinx MPower Grant, this release musically conveys a diverse mixture of themes and topics, from the intricacies and curiosities of human communication to fear-inducing information prevalent in the media, reflections on the acceptance of life’s inevitable changes and losses, and more. Dive in and explore the masterful contemporary works of Andrea Casarrubios, Carlos Carrillo, Kevin Day, Sebastian Quesada, and Mario Oyanadel.