Pongo en tus manos abiertas
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| Studio album by Víctor Jara | ||||
| Released | June, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | Santiago, Chile 1969 | |||
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Folk music Protest music Nueva canción |
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| Length | 41:23 | |||
| Label | DICAP Warner Bros. Records |
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| Producer | Víctor Jara | |||
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Pongo en tus manos abiertas ("I Put Into Your Open Hands") is an album recorded by Víctor Jara with the musicians from Quilapayún in June, 1969. It was the third album released by the DICAP record label.
The name given to the album is the opening line to Jara's homage to the founder of the Chilean labour movement and Communist Party of Chile, Luis Emilio Recabarren:
The album includes recordings of songs written by Jara and songs that Jara interprets of other Latin American Nueva Canción (New Song) singer-songwriters, such as the Uruguayan Daniel Viglietti and the Argentine Atahualpa Yupanqui that were highly influential to artists of the Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song) movement.
There is a song in tribute to Che Guevara and a song about the revolutionary Colombian priest and one of the first martyrs of the Liberation theology movement, Camilo Torres.
This albums also contains a song written by Jara commenting on a massacre that occurred in the city of Puerto Montt in Chile in 1969. In it, Jara condemns the then Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior Edmundo Pérez Zujovic for the death of 11 men, women, and children during the massacre of Puerto Montt.
In the early morning of March the 9th, 1969 the wealthy businessman and Interior Minister, Pérez Zujovic, authorized 250 armed police to attack and open fire on 91 homeless peasant families who were occupying private wastelands in the remote part of Puerto Montt. Tear gas grenades, dogs and machine gun fire were used to terrorize and evict the impoverished peasant squatters. Many of the peasants suffered shot wounds, many were killed, including a 9-month-old child.
The album contained one of Víctor Jara most famous and beautiful songs, "Te recuerdo Amanda" ("I remember you Amanda"), which has been adapted to various languages and interpreted by various artists from all over the world such as Joan Baez, Robert Wyatt, Raimon and Cornelis Vreeswijk.
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