- El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido (album)
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Name = ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!
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Artist =Quilapayún
Released = 1975
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Next album ="¡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
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 toChe Guevara . There are instrumentalandean music pieces: "‘Canción de la esperanza’" composed byEduardo Carrasco and a version of the traditional Bolivian piece "‘Titicaca’". "‘El alma llena de banderas’" a songVictor 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 inIran , to migrant workers inCalifornia , to pro-unification rallies inBerlin . In2004 the song inspired "Razom Nas Bahato, Nas Ne Podolaty " byGreenjolly , which became the unofficial anthem of theOrange Revolution in theUkraine . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4304043.stm]Music and songs that are a testament to the spirit of hope and rebellion during the darkest period of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Track listing
#“Compañero Presidente" ["Compañero Presidente" an unofficial title of respect given to
Salvador Allende by his supporters, literally meaning, "Our Comrade President".] (Eduardo Carrasco –Quilapayún )
#“Elegía al Che Guevara”/Elegy forChe Guevara (Eduardo Carrasco )
#“Canción de la esperanza”/Song of Hope (Instrumental) (Eduardo Carrasco)
#“El rojo gota a gota irá creciendo" ["Rojo", viz. Red, is a reference to theCommunist Party of Chile which was forced underground during the Pinochet years.] /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’ [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 ofSergio Ortega called "La Frague". The song appears as the fifth song of ‘Las Luchas’.] (Sergio Ortega )
#“La represión/Therepression (P. Rojas - Jaime Soto)
#“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido ”/The people united will never be defeated (Quilapayún –Sergio Ortega )Personnel
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Eduardo Carrasco
*Carlos Quezada
*Willy Oddó
*Hernán Gómez
*Rodolfo Parada
*Rubén escudero
*Hugo Lagos.ee also
*El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido (The Anthem)
*The People United Will Never Be Defeated! 36 Variations on a Chilean Song by Frederic RzewskiNotes
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