1. I will be deleting a few of the older entries whose albums are still available in stores (Mulatu, Sun Ra, Miles, Roots of Chicha) and change my focus to only albums that are out of print and hard to find.
2. All uploads from now on will be vinyl-rips from my own personal record collection. I'm still perfecting the art, so they'll be better as time goes on... But please enjoy the 320kbps mp3s.
3. As part of my love for music is: what else is going besides music, I will be doing more infrequent postings but they will be great records and include extensive information.
Thanks, enjoy the blog!
Victor Jara - Vientos Del Pueblo (Monitor, 1976)
Read my analysis of Jara's poetics and politics on Jaguar Press.
I've been wanting to upload this since day one! Victor Jara is the golden voiced folk singer from Chile, killed by the merciless military coup that ousted the worlds first democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende. Jara was campaigning for Allende, for the Popular Unity party, for Chileans and for the rights of all those suffering at the hands of Imperialism until his last breath. He was shot in the head while a group of 15 prisoners watched as he sang songs of revolution until his tongue no longer moved. His wife and two children spent four days not knowing of his whereabouts as the military regime placed curfews and patrols shot indiscriminately at anyone who looked suspicious.
