Corazones is an album

Album

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 by Chile

Chile

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an band Los Prisioneros

Los Prisioneros

Los Prisioneros was a chilean rock band formed in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1982. They began as a local band during the early 1980s, playing small shows in their neighborhood and high school...

, first released in 1990. It was produced by Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.-Life and career:...

 (with Anibal Kerpel's collaboration) for EMI

EMI

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 Odeon

Odeon Records

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 Chilena. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California

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The band left behind the social criticism on their lyrics, in order to persuade a whole new phase based in romantic and electronic stuff, with the support of Cecilia Aguayo on keyboards

Keyboard instrument

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 and Robert Rodríguez on guitar

Guitar

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s. This was also, the first record without the former member Claudio Narea

Claudio Narea

Claudio Narea is a Chilean rock musician, singer, and songwriter who is best known as the guitarist and back-up vocalist of the Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros from 1982–1989 and from 2000-2003....

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Once the promotion step of the album was finished, two performances followed in the 1991 edition of the International Music Festival of Viña del Mar

Viña del Mar

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. The band will later break apart, to return to the stage in 2001.

In the US

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, Corazones was released by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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According to the magazine Rolling Stone Chile, "Corazones" is in the ninth place of the best chilean albums. In addition, "La voz de los 80" is in the third place, and "Pateando piedras

Pateando piedras

Pateando piedras is the second album by Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros. According to the magazine Rolling Stone Chile, Pateando piedras is in the fifteenth place of the best Chilean albums.- Side A :...

" in the fifteenth place.

Track listing

• All tracks written by Jorge González
  Jorge González (musician)
  Jorge González is the former lead singer, main songwriter and sole composer of the Chilean band Los Prisioneros, and is currently the frontman of Los Updates. Los Prisioneros enjoyed a huge level of popularity and success initially in Chile and eventually all of Latin America beginning in 1984...
  
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1. "Tren al sur" (Train to the south) – 5:34
2. "Amiga mía" (My girlfriend - in the sense of "female friend") – 4:00
3. "Con suavidad" (With softness) – 5:02
4. "Corazones rojos" (Red hearts) – 3:30
5. "Cuéntame una historia original" (Tell me an original story) – 3:46
6. "Estrechez de corazón" (Heart narrowness) – 6:21
7. "Por amarte" (For loving you) – 6:02
8. "Noche en la ciudad (Fiesta!)" (Night in the city (Party!)) – 6:09
9. "Es demasiado triste" (It's too sad) – 4:50

Personnel

• Alejandro Barruel – Photography
• Anibal Kerpel – Associate Producer
• Tony Peluso – Mixing
• Gustavo Santaolalla – Producer
• Joel Stoner – Mixing Assistant

External links

• [ Review in Allmusic]
• Los Prisioneros Official Web Site
• The fifty better Chilean discs (according to Rolling Stone Chile)