Buena Vista Social Club (1999) is the newest title entry into Umbrella's brand new sub-label 'World Cinema'. This volume includes exclusive extra features and limited O-Ring packaging. With a small film crew, Wim Wenders accompanied his old friend Ry Cooder, who had previously written the music for PARIS, TEXAS, and END OF VIOLENCE, on a trip to Havana. Cooder wanted to record his material for Ibrahim Ferrer's solo album at a studio there-following the first Buena Vista Social Club CD (which had not yet been released at that time). Wenders immersed himself in the world of Cuban music. Over the course of several months, he observed and accompanied the musicians-first at home in Havana and then, weeks later, in April 1998, on their trip to Amsterdam for the first public performance of the band (who had never played together outside a studio) and then, still later, in July 1998, to their triumphal concert in New York's Carnegie Hall. He thus followed the old heroes of the traditional C