Víctor Jara (album)
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Víctor Jara is an album released by Víctor Jara
in 1967, it was subsequently released under the name of Desde longuén hasta siempre with a variation of different covers.
The album includes the controversial song, "El aparecido" (The Ghost), which was written about Che Guevara
's death months before the argentinian revolutionary was actually killed. The song says: "The crow
s with golden claws have put a price on his head / how the fury of the rich has crucified him."
Víctor Jara
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
in 1967, it was subsequently released under the name of Desde longuén hasta siempre with a variation of different covers.
The album includes the controversial song, "El aparecido" (The Ghost), which was written about Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
's death months before the argentinian revolutionary was actually killed. The song says: "The crow
Crow
Crows form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-size jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several...
s with golden claws have put a price on his head / how the fury of the rich has crucified him."
Track listing
- "El aparecido" (The ghostGhostIn traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "El lazo" (The lassoLassoA lasso , also referred to as a lariat, riata, or reata , is a loop of rope that is designed to be thrown around a target and tighten when pulled. It is a well-known tool of the American cowboy. The word is also a verb; to lasso is to successfully throw the loop of rope around something...
) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "Qué alegres son las obreras" (How happy are the Women Workers) (BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n folk) - "Despedimiento del angelito" (Farewell to the Little Angel) (Chilean folk)
- "Solo" (Alone) (Eduardo CarrascoEduardo CarrascoEduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 to 1989....
) - "En algún lugar del puerto" (Some place in the port)(Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "Así como hoy matan negros" (Thus they kill blacks today) (Pablo NerudaPablo NerudaPablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
- Sergio OrtegaSergio OrtegaSergio Ortega was a Chilean composer and pianist.- Biography :Ortega was born in Antofagasta, Chile. He studied composition with Roberto Falabella and with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt in the National Conservatory at the Universidad de Chile...
) - "El amor es un camino que de repente aparece" (Love is a road that suddenly appears) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "Casi, casi" (Almost, almost) (Chilean folk)
- "Canción de cuna para un niño vago" (Lullaby for a deserted child) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "Romance del enamorado y la muerte" (Song of the Lover and of Death) (Text: Anonymous - Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "Ay mi palomita" (Ah, my little dove) (Chilean folk)