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The Buena Vista Social Club was the name of a members-only music club in Havana, Cuba that was at its height during the 1940s. In the late 1990s Wim Wenders made a movie upon the initiative of Ry Cooder called "The Buena Vista Social Club." Wenders film centered on Ry Cooder's efforts to find and reunite some of the musicians who had performed at the long closed club. The film also portrays sessions from the production of the album released in 1997 also titled Buena Vista Social Club. Both movie and album were highly successful, and expanded the reach of...

Their music arouses curiosity as well as their name, a cut ´n´paste of words oddly juxtaposed. Their name, a band?s name yet. You already form a band even when there is only two people in it. The masquerade is over, let?s start introductions: Vista Le Vie is Max, from Dijon (east of France) and Gilles, from Avignon (south). They met in Paris (bless capital city centralisation!). Max started at the early age of six learning classic percussions at the local music school, dabbled with rock ´n´ roll, got a crush for Jacques Loussier´s record Pulsion (drums & piano album of...