Music’s biggest stars collide to hit Cuban beat for the climate crisis.
Rhythms Del Mundo ‘Classics’ featuring The Killers, Amy Winehouse, The Rolling Stones, Jack Johnson, Kaiser Chiefs, Editors, Keane, The Zutons, The Kooks, KT Tunstall and other greats … many brand new recordings.

 Released July 13, 2009 on Universal Music

LONDON, UK, 16 May 2009  -
The biggest stars in the music industry have joined forces to raise their voices to the latest Rhythms del Mundo album, ‘Rhythms del Mundo Classics’ produced to raise awareness and funds for climate crisis projects and natural disaster relief. The album is released on Universal Music on July 13, 2009.
The sublime talent of Cuba’s finest musicians with the unmistakable vocals of artists including Amy Winehouse, The Killers, Jack Johnson, The Rolling Stones, Kaiser Chiefs, Fall Out Boy, among other great artists.  The result is a unique formula merging Afro-Cubano rhythms with some of the most memorable songs of the last 40 years. With brand new recordings from the likes of The Killers, Editors, KT Tunstall, The Zutons and OneRepublic, through to special recordings from contributing artists such as Amy Winehouse, this long player is set to be the soundtrack to the summer.
This album is the latest project from Artists Project Earth (APE) and follows in the footsteps of the first release  Rhythms Del Mundo-Cuba! (ft. Coldplay, U2, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and others) which went platinum and gold in many countries across the globe. As a result, over 170 Climate Change Projects have already been supported through APE and the Rhythms del Mundo projects.
Kenny Young, RDM’s producer and founder of APE says: ‘These great artists have given up their time to be part of an album that will raise awareness for the most crucial crisis facing us today,  Climate change is our greatest global challenge and unless we act now, future generations will suffer for our greed and ignorance and they certainly won’t ever forgive us’.
Rhythms Del Mundo – Classics
Track-listing
Hotel California – RDM ft The Killers
Cupid – RDM ft Amy Winehouse
Walk On The Wild Side – RDM ft Editors
Imagine – RDM ft Jack Johnson
Beat It – RDM ft Fall Out Boy and John Mayer
Under Pressure – RDM ft Keane
Satisfaction – RDM ft Cat Power
I Heard It Through The Grapevine – RDM ft Kaiser Chiefs
Because The Night – RDM ft KT Tunstall

Bohemian Rhapsody – RDM ft Augusto Enriquez
Under The Boardwalk – RDM ft The Rolling Stones
Runaway – RDM ft The Zutons
For What Its Worth – RDM ft OneRepublic
Big Yellow Taxi – RDM ft Aquila Rose and Idana Valdes 
Purple Haze – RDM
Smells Like Teen Spirit – RDM ft Shanade
Are You Ready For Love – RDM ft The Kooks
My Cherie Amor – Eros Ramazzotti
Stairway To Heaven – RDM ft Rodrigo Y Gabriela

www.rhythmsdelmundo.com  or  www.myspace.com/rhythmsdelmundoclassics
For more information on Artists Project Earth visit www.apeuk.org  or email Suzanne Tharani – suzanne@apeuk.org
http://www.myspace.com/rhythmsdelmundoclassics

>> UN CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE - BALI 3-14TH DEC. 2007
APE will be premiering our new video 'FRAGILE PLANET' w/ music by RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO ft. STING.
The premiere will be held on 10 Dec. at a special dinner event at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Bali where 150 delegates and media will be attending.

And if you're not at the conference yourself, don't worry as you'll soon be able to see the video here or on the APE site and in the Rhythms del Mundo Video Gallery. Fragile Planet was co-sponsored by APE, Global Iniatives, GEF, UNEP and the World Bank. For more information about the Conference visit the UN website. http://www.un.org/climatechange/

ROUND 2 FUNDING PROJECTS ANNOUNCED.

Sales of our first CD 'Rhythms Del Mundo' are enabling Artists Project Earth to fund some inspiring and innovative projects that will really help to address the root causes of climate change.

The Trustees and Advisors of Artists Project Earth are pleased to announce that the second round of funding will support a further 22 projects that aim to raise awareness of the perils of climate change and to support those affected by natural disasters. In total, APE has funded 34 projects to date.

As Einstein once famously said, "We cannot solve the problems we face with the same mindset that created them." With this in mind, we have selected projects that we feel are imaginatively addressing the root causes of the many crises humanity currently faces; projects that offer a different way of looking at the world and whose actions are diverse and practical.

http://apeuk.org/funding.html

MORE GOLD & PLATINUM AWARDS FOR "RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO",including:

-Germany
-Greece
-Italy
-Netherland
-Mexico

RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO CUBA featuring "Tonight" by REAMONN went straight to Number 1 on iTunes Germany and Amazon Germany the day after "Live Earth " performance

>> RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO PERFORM AT LIVE EARTH.


Rhythms Del Mundo will be performing 'LIVE' for the first time!! In front of hundreds of millions of people - RDM will be performing on Live Earth featuring the German artists Reamonn at Hamburg's AOL Arena. Other artists scheduled to play to combat climate crisis are Shakira, Pink, Guns n Roses and Snoop Dog among others. The series of concerts on 07/07/07 will take place in 7 continents in 9 cities and will headline, Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Police, Linkin Park, Jack Johnson and many other world famous artists. For further info see www.liveearth.org

Rhythms Del Mundo is number 1 on Amazon UK in the first week of relaunch.

BRISTOL, UK, October 31, 2006 (ENS) - A group of high profile bands .. U2, the Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Coldplay and Kaiser Chiefs - have collaborated with members of the Buena Vista Social Club to create a compilation album in support of the charity Artists Project Earth, APE, which funds natural disaster relief and climate change awareness.

APE's first music project, the album Rhythms del Mundo Cuba, will be released on November 13. For every album sold, money will be donated to Artists Project Earth.

Through music and the arts, Artists Project Earth aims to achieve permanent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; reducing them to levels which can be sustained, and which result in no further degradation of ecological systems and human livelihood.

APE recruits internationally known musicians and artists through albums, concerts, art exhibitions and art related projects to raise awareness of climate change and funds for campaigns and disaster relief.



British multi-platinum singer-songwriter Dido performed at three of the Live 8 concerts on July 2, 2005 - performing in London, then at the Eden Project in Cornwall, before flying over to Paris to join that show. (Photo credit unknown)

The Rhythms del Mundo album features Sting, Maroon 5, and British singer-songwriter Dido, who said, "The incredibly obvious and real signs of global warming are all around us now. This is not an inevitable or irreversible situation yet. There is still time for each one of us to make the right choices and change the outcome. But time is definitely running out. This is not somebody else's problem. If you live in this world it's your responsibility to protect its future."
Hawaiian musician Jack Johnson, also featured on the album, said, "Short term upside - less jackets in the winter. Long term downside - a potentially uninhabitable environment due to our lack of awareness.

Jack Johnson has established the Kokua Hawaii Foundation to bring environmental education to Hawaiian elementary schools. (Photo courtesy Surfrider)

Every choice that we make as consumers sends a message. Buy from companies that are making a real effort to lessen their environmental impact. Support renewable energy whenever possible and put the pressure on your elected government officials to do the same."
Government is a key to solving the urgent issue of global warming, says Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. "We need a law, we need to have the government put climate change in its place," he said. If you leave industry to sort it out on a voluntary basis, that..s never going to happen."

The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 that left nearly 230,000 people dead and missing was the catalyst for the Rhythms del Mundo project, and APE says on its website that the Sundance Film Festival was the project's birthplace.

There, Kenny Young and the Berman Brothers hatched an idea to bring together members of the Buena Vista Social Club in a collaboration with Western artists to record popular familiar songs, fusing them with Latin rhythms.
The late Ibrahim Ferrer, who passed away in August 2005, a popular Afro-Cuban musician in Cuba and a member of the Buena Vista Social Club is featured on the album along with fellow Buena Vista Social Club member Omara Portuondo, a Cuban singer whose career has spanned half a century.

All the musicians associated with the Rhythms del Mundo project recognize the urgency of lowering greenhouse gas emissions now to limit global warming, which is already being felt in melting glaciers, heat waves and an increase in extreme weather events.

Nick Hodgson of the Kaiser Chiefs says, "The latest reports show there's only a decade before the effects of climate change on the world are irreversible. The disastrous consequences of this are far too great for a sound bite but put it this way, in 10 years there would be no polar bears!"

Visit www.apeuk.org and the album's official site http://www.rhythmsdelmundo.com where clips of the songs are offered.


LINK: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-31-01.asp

Arctic Monkeys go Latin
Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs also get the rhumba treatment
Arctic Monkeys have been re-recorded by musicians from latin music pioneers the Buena Vista Social Club.

A reinterpretation of 'Dancing Shoes' appears on the new Buena Vista Social Club album 'Rhythms Del Mundo'.

The track, which features Alex Turner's vocals with new backing, is one of the first times the band have licensed one of their songs for use on a compilation album.

Arranged by Demitrio Muniz, the interpretations on the album keep the original orchestration from each song, along with the majority of the original vocals, and then layer new flourishes over the top of the original tracks.

"Arctic Monkeys are crazy," Muniz told NME.COM. "They're just so cool, smooth, danceable and joy-provoking."

The album, which is released on November 13, also features the Havana-based collective adding to 'Modern Way' by Kaiser Chiefs, 'The Dark Of The Matinee' by Franz Ferdinand, 'Clocks' by Coldplay[/b] and [B]'High & Dry'[/B] by [a]Radiohead among others.

The album is also notable for being the last ever recording of Ibrahim Ferrer and is in aid of Artists Project Earth (APE) which lends support to natural disaster relief and climate change awareness.

Founder and trustee of APE Kenny Young said: "The idea came in to do a project with The Buena Vista Social Club; to fuse their Latin sounds with Western artists and their familiar popular songs."

www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/24744 - 23k