El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido (album)
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido! (The people united will never be defeated!) is a music album released by the Chilean folk group Quilapayún in 1975.
Content
[edit]The album is representative of the material artists of the Nueva Canción Chilena released in exile after the military coup of September 11, 1973. It opens with a song in homage to the fallen socialist president Salvador Allende and proceeds with a moving musical elegy to Che Guevara. There are instrumental andean music pieces: ‘Canción de la esperanza’ composed by Eduardo Carrasco and a version of the traditional Bolivian piece ‘Titicaca’. ‘El alma llena de banderas’ a song Victor Jara dedicated to the murder of a young worker is included, as well as songs denouncing the violent military repression against an unarmed people.
The most well known song of the album is Quilapayún & Sergio Ortega’s ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!, originally composed as a march for the Popular Unity government; after the September 11, 1973 military coup it became the international anthem of the Chilean resistance. The song has been translated into a number of languages and has been heard in mass rallies, marches and demonstrations all over the world: from students in Iran, to migrant workers in California, to pro-unification rallies in Berlin. In 2004 the song inspired Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolaty by GreenJolly, which became the unofficial anthem of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.[1]
Music and songs are a testament to the spirit of hope and rebellion during the darkest period of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Track listing
[edit]- “Compañero Presidente"[2] (Eduardo Carrasco – Quilapayún)
- “Elegía al Che Guevara”/Elegy for Che Guevara (Eduardo Carrasco)
- “Canción de la esperanza”/Song of Hope (Instrumental) (Eduardo Carrasco)
- “El rojo gota a gota irá creciendo" [3]/The red will slowly grow (Eduardo Carrasco - Horacio Salinas)
- "Chacarilla" (Popular)
- “El alma llena de banderas”/Our hearts are full of banners (Víctor Jara)
- "Titicaca”/Lake Titicaca (Popular)
- “Las luchas: Canción V [o La represión]"/Song 5 from ‘Las Lucha’[4] (Sergio Ortega)
- “La represión/The repression (P. Rojas - Jaime Soto)
- “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido”/The people united will never be defeated (Quilapayún – Sergio Ortega)
Personnel
[edit]- Eduardo Carrasco
- Carlos Quezada
- Willy Oddó
- Hernán Gómez
- Rodolfo Parada
- Rubén escudero
- Hugo Lagos.
See also
[edit]- El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido (The Anthem)
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated! 36 Variations on a Chilean Song by Frederic Rzewski
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Kiev goes 'orange' for Eurovision". February 28, 2005 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Compañero Presidente an unofficial title of respect given to Salvador Allende by his supporters, literally meaning, "Our Comrade President".
- ^ Rojo, viz. Red, is a reference to the Communist Party of Chile which was forced underground during the Pinochet years.
- ^ This song which appears on some releases peculiarly with the same title as the proceeding song, is another version of a song from another work of Sergio Ortega called La Frague. The song appears as the fifth song of ‘Las Luchas’.
