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Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas (album)
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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.
, Luis Emilio Recabarren:
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
.
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.
, Robert Wyatt
, Raimon
and Cornelis Vreeswijk
.
I PUT IN YOUR OPEN HANDS…
Laughter and blows,
Hope and protest.
A shout emerges crossing the large expanse of our territory.
It is the peasant nailing a plough on the land,
the worker filling the air with protest on May Day,
the student and his word
in street battles,
the youth,
that for being young,
cannot but look forward into the future.
And all this is present
in the youth that struggles
and in the song of protest.
The new song of Victor Jara unites,
from his position as activist of the people’s cause,
the spirit of the young generation of our land,
the lengthy tradition of the workers struggles
the awaken conscious of the artist
which is identified more than compromised with the people.
During these days in which the Communist Youth
gather for their VI Congress
to reassert their decision to receive the message
which places in their “OPEN HANDS”
the visionary father of the New Homeland,
Luis Emilio Recabarren.
We also place in the open hands
of all the Chilean youth
These songs that speak to us
about our convictions,
our hopes
of ourselves.
Víctor Jara
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
with the musicians from Quilapayún
Quilapayún
Quilapayún are an instrumental and vocal folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential exponents of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement. Formed in Chile during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution that occurred in the popular music of the...
in June, 1969. It was the third album released by the DICAP record label.
Luis Emilio Recabarren
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 ChileCommunist Party of Chile
The Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...
, Luis Emilio Recabarren:
| Pongo en tus manos | Into your open |
| abiertas | hands |
| mi guitarra de cantor, | I place my singers guitar |
| martillo de los mineros, | the hammer of the miners |
| arado del Labrador. | the peasant’s plough Plough The plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture... . |
Che and Camilo Torres
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 VigliettiDaniel Viglietti
Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart is an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s.He founded, in 1971, along with other musicians like José...
and the Argentine Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....
that were highly influential to artists of the Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song) movement.
There is a song in tribute to Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
and a song about the revolutionary Colombian priest and one of the first martyrs of the Liberation theology
Liberation theology
Liberation theology is a Christian movement in political theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions...
movement, Camilo Torres
Camilo Torres Restrepo
Father Camilo Torres Restrepo was a Colombian socialist, Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of liberation theology and a member of the National Liberation Army guerrilla organisation...
.
Preguntas por Puerto Montt
This albums also contains a song written by Jara commenting on a massacre that occurred in the city of Puerto MonttPuerto Montt
Puerto Montt is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of the Reloncaví Sound in the Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region. The commune spans an area of and had a population of 175,938 in 2002. It is located 1,055 km to the south of the capital, Santiago...
in Chile in 1969. In it, Jara condemns the then Christian Democrat
Christian Democrat Party of Chile
The Christian Democratic Party is a political party in Chile and governs as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. In the 2009 election it won 19 congress seats and 9 senate seats....
Minister of the Interior Edmundo Pérez Zujovic
Edmundo Pérez Zujovic
Edmundo Pérez Zujovic was a Chilean politician of the Christian Democrat Party. He was minister of the Interior, Public Works and Finance under the government of President Eduardo Frei Montalva ....
for the death of 11 men, women, and children during the massacre of Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of the Reloncaví Sound in the Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region. The commune spans an area of and had a population of 175,938 in 2002. It is located 1,055 km to the south of the capital, Santiago...
.
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.
| Usted debe responder | "You will have to answer |
| señor Pérez Zujovic | Mr Pérez Zujovic |
| porqué al pueblo indefenso, | why were defenseless people |
| contestaron con fusil. | replied to with guns. |
| Señor Pérez su conciencia | "Mr Pérez your conscience |
| la enterró en un ataúd | is now buried in a coffin |
| y no limpiarán sus manos | and all the southern rains |
| toda la lluvia del sur. | won't clean your hands. |
Te Recuerdo Amanda
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 BaezJoan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
, Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
, Raimon
Raimon
Ramon Pelegero Sanchis, who takes the stage name of Raimon , is a Valencian Spanish singer, one of the most important exponents of the musical style of Nova Cançó and one of the most well-known veteran artists in the Catalan language.-Youth:...
and Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk , was a singer-songwriter, poet and actor born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands.He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the age of twelve. He was educated as a social worker and hoped to become a journalist, but became increasingly involved in music, performing at...
.
Liner notes
Laughter and blows,
Hope and protest.
A shout emerges crossing the large expanse of our territory.
It is the peasant nailing a plough on the land,
the worker filling the air with protest on May Day,
the student and his word
in street battles,
the youth,
that for being young,
cannot but look forward into the future.
And all this is present
in the youth that struggles
and in the song of protest.
The new song of Victor Jara unites,
from his position as activist of the people’s cause,
the spirit of the young generation of our land,
the lengthy tradition of the workers struggles
the awaken conscious of the artist
which is identified more than compromised with the people.
During these days in which the Communist Youth
gather for their VI Congress
to reassert their decision to receive the message
which places in their “OPEN HANDS”
the visionary father of the New Homeland,
Luis Emilio Recabarren.
We also place in the open hands
of all the Chilean youth
These songs that speak to us
about our convictions,
our hopes
of ourselves.
—Santiago, June 1969
Track listing
- "A Luis Emilio Recabarren" (To Luis Emilio Recabarren) (Víctor Jara) 2:49
- "A desalambrar" (Tear down the fences) (Daniel VigliettiDaniel VigliettiDaniel Alberto Viglietti Indart is an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s.He founded, in 1971, along with other musicians like José...
) 1:36 - "Duerme, duerme, negritoDuerme NegritoDuerme Negrito is a popular Latin American folkloric lullaby, originally from an area near the Venezuelan and Colombian border. The song was compiled by Atahualpa Yupanqui when visiting this region and popularized by himself and other musicians, such as Mercedes Sosa and Daniel Viglietti, when...
" (Sleep little black child) (Traditional, Adapt: Atahualpa YupanquiAtahualpa YupanquiAtahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....
) 2:49 - "JuanJuanJuan is a given name, the Spanish language version of John. It is very common in Spain and in Spanish-speaking communities around the world. The feminine form is Juana, or Juanita on its diminutive....
sin Tierra" (Landless Juan) (Jorge Saldaña) 3:09f - "Preguntas por Puerto MonttPuerto MonttPuerto Montt is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of the Reloncaví Sound in the Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region. The commune spans an area of and had a population of 175,938 in 2002. It is located 1,055 km to the south of the capital, Santiago...
" (Questions about Puerto Montt) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 2:39 - "Móvil Oil Special" (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 2:46 - "Cruz de Luz, Camilo TorresCamilo TorresCamilo Torres may refer to:*Camilo Torres Restrepo, liberation theologian, priest and guerrilla member in Colombia during the 1960s*Camilo Torres Tenorio, political leader of Colombia's independence struggle against Spain in the 1810s...
" (Cross of Light, Camilo Torres) (Daniel VigliettiDaniel VigliettiDaniel Alberto Viglietti Indart is an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s.He founded, in 1971, along with other musicians like José...
) 3:04 - "El martillo" (If I had a hammerIf I Had a Hammer"If I Had a Hammer " is a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the progressive movement, and was first recorded by The Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman, and then by Peter, Paul and Mary.- Early...
) (Lee Hays/Pete SeegerPete SeegerPeter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
– Adapt: Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) - "Te recuerdo Amanda" (I remember you Amanda) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 2:33 - "Zamba del CheChe GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
" (Zamba song for "Che") (Rubén Ortiz Fernández) 3:39 - "Ya parte el galgo terrible" (The ferocious greyhoundsSighthoundSighthounds, also called gazehounds, are hounds that primarily hunt by speed and sight, instead of by scent and endurance as scent hounds do.-Appearance:...
attack) (Pablo NerudaPablo NerudaPablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
– Sergio OrtegaSergio OrtegaSergio Ortega was a Chilean composer and pianist.- Biography :Ortega was born in Antofagasta, Chile. He studied composition with Roberto Falabella and with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt in the National Conservatory at the Universidad de Chile...
) 1:50 - "A CochabambaCochabambaCochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...
me voy" (I am going to Cochabamba) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 2:26
Extended 2001 Reissue
The reissue of Pongo en tus manos abiertas historic recording by Warner in March 2001 was extended with 6 bonus tracks:- 13. “Plegaria a un Labrador” (Prayer to a laborer) [Single version with QuilapayúnQuilapayúnQuilapayún are an instrumental and vocal folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential exponents of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement. Formed in Chile during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution that occurred in the popular music of the...
] (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 3:02 - 14. “Cueca de Joaquín Murieta” (from Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquín Murieta LP) (Pablo NerudaPablo NerudaPablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
– Sergio OrtegaSergio OrtegaSergio Ortega was a Chilean composer and pianist.- Biography :Ortega was born in Antofagasta, Chile. He studied composition with Roberto Falabella and with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt in the National Conservatory at the Universidad de Chile...
) – 1:36 - 15. “Tonada para guitarra” (live at the Peña de los Parras, 1970) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 1:14 - 16. “Te recuerdo Amanda” (live at the Peña de los Parras, 1970) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 3:06 - 17. “Plegaria a un Labrador” (live at the Peña de los Parras, 1970) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
- Patricio Castillo) 3:32 - 18. “El arado” (The ploughPloughThe plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture...
) (live, 1970) (Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
) 3:48