Quilapayun - Umbral (1979)

Entre los discos pertenecientes a la discografía de Quilapayún este es de lo más fuertes, pues presenta el salto del canto político a la creación y al surrealismo. Voces y música, una gran combinación.


01 Arriba en la Cordillera
02 El Arbol de los Libres
03 Ronda del Ausente
04 La Vida Total
05 Paloma Quiero Contarte
06 Complainte de Pablo Neruda
07 Transiente
08 Canción Para Victor Jara
09 Vamos Mujer
10 Discurso del Pintor Roberto Matta
11 Quand Les Hommes Vivront d'Amour
12 Americas (Cantate Populaire)

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Quilapayun - Basta (1969)

The Chilean group formed in 1965 writing lyrics inspired by social issues related to its country and combining them with autochthonous musical arrangements. In 1966, the band came in first place at the Festival de Festivales, releasing its first album that same year. Folk singer and songwriter Victor Jara helped the band by promoting Quilapayun's music and making the record Canciones Folkloricas de America together. As Chilean New Song's ambassador, Quilapayun went on its first European tour in 1968. Due to Chilean political and social changes in the early '70s, the group settled in foreign countries for more than a decade.

Basta (That’s enough!/Das genügt!) is an album that was released by Quilapayún in 1969. It brings together an eclectic and diverse collections of popular/folk songs and anthems from different parts of the World: from across Latin America, the former USSR, and Italy. This album included "La muralla"/The wall - one of the most popular folk songs in Latin America - based on the text of a poem by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén.

The vocal arrangements are done meticulously for most of the songs and reach their heights in the recording of “Bella Ciao”, “Por montañas y praderas” and “Patrón.” This album – as X Vietnam - exemplifies one of the most novel and distinctive features of the Nueva Cancion Chilena/ New Chilean Song: its internationalism.

Quilapayun - Santa Maria De Iquque (Cantata) 1970

Santa María de Iquique, cantata popular is a cantata composed in 1969 by the Chilean composer Luis Advis Vitaglich, combining elements of both classical and folkloric/indigenous musical traditions to produce what became known as a popular cantata and one of Quilapayún’s most acclaimed and popular music interpretation. The theme of the cantata is a historical industrial dispute that ended with the massacre of miners in the northern Chilean city of Iquique in 1907. The reading is impeccably executed by the Chilean actor Hector Duvauchelle, who captures the increasingly tense struggle between the miners and their exploiters in the narrative. Instrumental interludes and songs empower the progression of the story leading to a final song which voices the miners demand for an end to exploitation with visions of an egalitarian and free world.

Composer's Notes

The following are the statements made by Luis Advis, that appeared on the original booklet that accompanied the record release in 1970.

“This work, dedicated to Quilapayún, was composed following the general guidelines of a classical cantata. There is, albeit, a variant which refers to: literary-thematic aspects: the traditional religious motive has been replaced with one based on real events from the social order.”