Alianza (album)
Encyclopedia
Alianza is a 1992 album
by a group of Anglo-Chilean musicians who performed under the name Alianza
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by a group of Anglo-Chilean musicians who performed under the name Alianza
Alianza (band)
Alianza were a unique Anglo-Chilean collaboration between three British musicians, Steve Knightley, Phil Beer, and Dave Townsend, and three exiled Chilean musicians, Sergio Avila, Mauricio Venegas and Vladimir Vega...
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Track listing
- "Morna" (Steve KnightleySteve KnightleySteve Knightley is a singer-songwriter, musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Career:...
) / "Tobin's Favourite" (TradTradTrad is generally an abbreviation of the word "Traditional". Its meaning varies with context, but the following have been observed:* In music, trad may refer to:** Traditional music** Trad jazz, also known as "Dixieland"...
) - "Ojos Azules" (Trad) / "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy" (Trad)
- "Ay Paloma" (Mauricio Venegas)
- "Man Of War" (Knightley)
- "Nuca Llacta" (Trad)
- "Surtierra" (Venegas)
- "Buttered Peas" (Trad) / "Carnival" (Knightley)
- "Shallow Brown" (Trad) / "Elegva" (Venegas)
- "Tall Ships" (Knightley)
- "Idbury Hill" (Trad)/"Carnavolito" (Trad)
- "List For A Sailor" (Trad)
- "Santiago" (Knightley)
Personnel
- Sergio Avila – Bombo, Kena, Kenacho, Moceno, Zampona
- Phil BeerPhil BeerPhil Beer is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and one half of English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Biography:...
– Fiddle, Guitarra, MandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single... - Mauricio Venegas – Bombo, Chajchas, CharangoCharangoThe charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, 66 cm long, traditionally made with the shell of the back of an armadillo. Primarily played in traditional Andean music, and is sometimes used by other Latin American musicians. Many contemporary charangos are now made with...
, Congas, Guitarra, Kena, Maracas, Moceno, PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, Zampona - Steve Knightley – Cello-mandolinMandocelloThe mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa . It is to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.-Construction:Mandocello construction is similar to the...
- Vladimir Vega – Charango, Kena, TipleTipleTiple is the Spanish word for treble or soprano, is often applied to specific instruments, generally to refer to a small chordophone of the guitar family. A tiple player is called a tiplista.-Colombian tiple:...
, Zampona - Dave Townsend – AccordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, ConcertinaConcertinaA concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it...