IT's 2005 and Eliades Ochoa is sitting opposite me drinking coffee, his elbow on the table, his right wrist bearing his distinctive watch patterned with the Cuban flag. It's the opening day of the ...

The creative minds behind Buena Vista Social Club have guided an effort by Cuban and African musicians to create a new album, AfroCubism. Deep history underlies the musical interplay on the record, as ...

A great new CD has just come out, and it’s called Afrocubism, and it’s from the great U.K. label World Circuit, purveyor of great world music for almost three decades and best known for producing The ...

When the Cuban collaboration known as the Buena Vista Social Club exploded more than a decade ago, few listeners knew the recording was actually a rescue operation for a project that fell through.

The fact is you can’t go wrong exactly, but you could end up with something that really isn’t that much greater than the sum of its melodic and rhythmic parts, which I feel is what happened. But don’t ...

History repeated itself, unecessarily, en route to the New York concert debut of Afrocubism, the Cuban-Malian superband featuring singer-guitarist Eliades Ochoa of the Buena Vista Social Club, the ...

It became the most successful world-music album in history, but “Buena Vista Social Club” happened by accident. The original idea for the record, as conceived by Nick Gold of the British label World ...

Behind this elegantly crafted meeting of African and Cuban master musicians lurks the presence of another massive-selling album. Fourteen years ago, a group of Mali’s finest musicians were due to fly ...

Better late than never far better. AfroCubism, the group of Malian and Cuban musicians who have made an album together and who performed at Town Hall on Tuesday night, is a long-delayed collaboration.

In 1996 Nick Gold planned to make a CD bringing together Malian and Cuban musicians, but due to visa problems it never happened. Instead he began working with just the Cubans and, almost by fortunate ...

In theory, AfroCubism should have been one of the most exciting world-music releases of the year; how could you go wrong with a supergroup composed of Cuban and Malian musicians working towards ...

In 1996, British producer Nick Gold tried to convene top musicians from West Africa and Cuba to see what would happen. But his musical summit fell apart when the Africans failed to show up in Havana.