Singing praises of seniors-only supergroup
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios revisits some of the Cuban ensemble's triumphs and provides the backstory to its main players.
OLD musicians never die, they just fade away. Or show up in tribute documentaries like Buena Vista Social Club: Adios, director Lucy Walker's follow-up to the 1997 album and accompanying Wim Wenders film that introduced the world to a group of ageing Cuban musicians and their distinctive Afro-Cuban sound, known as son.
Twenty years after bursting onto the World Music scene, the documentary revisits some of the group's triumphs while also providing the backstory to a number of its main players.
The film comprises black-and-white archival footage, some behind-the-scenes moments from the Wenders documentary and more recent material involving the surviving members of the ensemble - primarily a seniors-only supergroup of singers and musicians who were well past retirement age when they made a hit album togeth…
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