Victor Jara – 'Complete' Anthology (1997)

 WELL IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, SEPTEBMER 11, when we stop to remember and commemorate the thousands who died as a result of one of the most inhumane attacks on liberty, freedom, and democracy that the modern world has even known.  I am talking, of course, about the brutal military coup in Chile that overthrew democratically-elected Salvador Allende and rounded up all the lefties in a stadium where they were beaten, tortured, “disappeared” and/or executed.  As  EVERYONE KNOWS BY NOW this coup was backed by the United States, at least partially staged if not quite orchestrated by the CIA after attempts to subvert the Allende government through all kinds of other strategies and covert operations, attempts begun in 1970 before he was even elected,  failed.  The coup ushered into power the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, also famously propped up by the US and later Margaret Thatcher and who oddly still has apologists.  Economists mentored by Milton Friedman  (‘The Chicago Boys) were flown in to use the Chilean economy as a laboratory for policies that would come to shape modern neoliberal economic policy that has more or less become the hegemonic view of how the allegedly ‘free’ market works. 

Although the disappearances, torture, and killings would continue throughout the Pinochet regime, a staggering majority of them happened in 1973 right after the coup.  The most famous of them has to be the murder of folk singer Victor Jara at the national stadium.

 This four-disc compilation is a bit odd.  It was released in Germany (on the label Plane Records) before his catalog was reissued in Chile and Argentina, and used vinyl records as the source for much if not all of the audio.  Also, Jara’s recorded legacy was subjected to a lot of confusing reissues and repackaging of his material under different titles and with different track sequencing, and issued by different labels.   So although this boxset was called “Complete”, it is far from it.  It features none of the material of the groups Cuncumén or Quilapuya of which he was a member, for example, nor does it represent all of the material he recorded on his own.  There is an 8-CD boxset out there that, I think, contains pretty much everything.  And in 2001 a handful of his individual albums were reissued with a lot of bonus tracks.

In any event, I had thought of only uploading “El derecho viver em paz” or “La pobación”, the records which are (rather unsurprisingly) my favorites out of these. 

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 Victor Jara aka Geografias
Released 1966

01 – El Arado (3:34)
02 – El Cigarrito (2:41)
03 – La Flor Que Anda De Mano En Mano (2:01)
04 – Deja La Vida Volar (3:26)
05 – La Luna Siempre Es Muy Linda (3:27)
06 – Ojitos Verdes (3:51)
07 – La Cocinerita (2:28)
08 – Paloma Quiero Contarte (3:03)
09 – ¿Qué Saco Rogar Al Cielo (3:07)
10 – No Puedes Volver Atrás (2:56)
11 – El Carretero (3:54)
12 – Jajai (2:25)

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Desde Lonquén hasta siempre aka EL VERSO ES UNA PALOMA
 Released 1967 Odeon / Alerce / Warner

13 – El Aparecido (2:18)
14 – El Lazo (3:54)
15 – Qué Alegres Son Las Obreras (3:14)
16 – Despedimiento Del Angelito (3:36)
17 – Solo (3:16)
18 – En Algún Lugar Del Puerto (4:22)
19 – Así Como Hoy Matan Negros (2:16)
20 – El Amor Es Un Camino Que De Repente Aparece (2:27)
21 – Casi, Casi (2:03)
22 – Canción De Cuna Para Un Niño Vago (3:41)
23 – Romance Del Enamorado Y De La Muerte (2:52)
24 – Ay, Mi Palomita (1:43)
Total (1:12:35)
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TE RECUERDO AMANDA
A 1970s European Repackaging of his album “Pongo en tus manos abiertas” from 1969, with a different track sequence.  Pretty obviously done to highlight his most internationally famous song (Te recuerdo Amanda), moved up front here as the opening track


1 – Te Recuerdo Amanda (2:34)
02 – Duerme, Duerme Negrito (2:51)
03 – A Desalambrar (1:38)
04 – Juan Sin Tierra (3:09)
05 – A Cochabamba Me Voy (2:28)
06 – A Luis Emilio Recabarren (2:48)
07 – El Martillo (2:50)
08 – Camilo Torres (3:03)
09 – Zamba Del ‘Che’ (3:39)
10 – Ya Parte El Galgo Terrible (1:52)
11 – Preguntas Por Puerto Montt (2:41)
12 – ‘Movil’ Oil Special (2:53)

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 CANTO LIBRE
Released     1970

13 – Inga (2:29)
14 – Cancion Del Arbol Del Olvido (2:55)
15 – La Pala (3:28)
16 – Lamento Borincano (4:10)
17 – Ventolera (3:06)
18 – El Tinku (3:27)
19 – Angelita Huenumán (4:03)
20 – Corrido De Pancho Villa (3:43)
21 – Caminando, Caminando (2:43)
22 – Quién Mató A Carmencita (4:49)
23 – Canto Libre (4:47)

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 LA POBLACION
DICAP – JJL 14 (1972)
 with Pedro Yáñez, Huamarí y Cantamaranto

01 – El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (4:30)
02 – Abre Tu Ventana (3:56)
03 – La Partida (3:26)
04 – A La Molina No Voy Más (3:13)
05 – Vamos Por Ancho Camino (3:17)
06 – El Nino Yuntero (3:44)
07 – A Cuba (3:54)
08 – Las Casitas Del Barrio Alto (2:25)
09 – El Alma Llena De Banderas (3:57)
10 – Ni Chicha Ni Limoná (3:20)
11 – Plegaria A Un Labrador (3:13)
12 – B.R.P. (3:09)

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LA POBLACION
Released 1972 – DICAP – JJL 14 (1972)

 

13 – Lo Unico Que Tengo (3:16)
14 – En El Río Mapocho (3:44)
15 – Luchín (3:16)
16 – La Toma – 16 Marzo 1967 (7:19)
17 – La Carpa De Las Coliguillas (2:42)
18 – El Hombre Es Un Creador (2:12)
19 – Herminda De La Victoria (3:59)
20 – Sacando Pecho Y Brazo (2:34)
21 – Marcha De Los Pobladores (3:13)

Total 1:14:19

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CANTO POR TRAVESURA
 Released 1973 DICAP – DCP 47
with Pedro Yáñez, Santos Rubio y Fernando Rodríguez
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01 – Brindis (0:54)
02 – La Palmatoria (3:16)
03 – Vengan A Mi Casamiento (3:21)
04 – La Fonda (2:19)
05 – La Edad De La Mujer (2:24)
06 – La Cafetera (2:06)
07 – La Diuca (2:45)
08 – Iba Yo Para Una Fiesta (3:04)
09 – Por Un Pito Ruin (4:39)
10 – La Beata (2:37)
11 – Adivinanzas (1:00)
12 – El Chincolito (1:58)

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 1974 Posthumous release featuring four songs recorded for an unfinished album in 1973
Also released as MANIFESTO (on TransAtlantic in the UK)

13 – Manifiesto (4:29)
14 – Caicaivilu (3:13)
15 – Cuando Voy Al Trabajo (3:53)
16 – Lamento Borincano (4:09)
17 – Pimiento (3:57)
18 – Poema 15 (3:36)
19 – Vientos Del Pueblo(2:37)
20 – Aquí Me Quedo (3:02)
21 – Venían Del Desierto (2:54)
22 – Doncella Encantada (4:19)

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13 Comments

  1. Muchas gracias. Gone but not forgotten.
    Sean

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    vibes

  3. Merci beaucoup, muchas gracias, thank you.

    Jean-François Trépanier
    from Québec City, Canada

  4. Gracias por recordar a Víctor y el 11 de Septiembre de 1973. Always great tunes, thanks a lot.

  5. Muchas gracias por recordar a Víctor Jara y el 11 de Septiembre de 1973. Always great music, thanks a lot.

  6. What a fine way to commemorate the "other" Sept. 11. I haven't listened to this for sound quality, but it's a pretty comprehensive collection. The 8-CD set you mention has great sound and lots of bonus tracks (45s, live performances), but doesn't include any of the material Jara did for Odeon — including two of his greatest, the 1967 album and Canto Libre. Around the same time as that box set came out, EMI Chile issued a 2-CD collection of the Odeon material, but the sequencing and packaging were slipshod, and in any case, it's almost impossible to find now — so enjoy it here.

  7. Yes, I remember this — the first Winnipeg Folk Festival was dedicated to Victor Jara; the event was fresh in everyone's memory at the time, tragic, yes, but inspiring to know that a single folk-singer could so threaten a government! Thank you for posting the anthology, I look forward to hearing more of his work.

  8. Thanks for your words as well as the music. Cheers, MB

  9. What a mess these re-releases with different titles and tracklists, it took me a while to get it.

    Great post, man.

    PS: apparently the only one missing here is "Canciones Folkóricas de América" – considering just the studio albums and discounting "Tiempos Que Cambian", which remained unfinished.

  10. What a mess these re-releases with different titles and tracklist orders, it took me a while to get it.

    Great post, man.

    PS: apparently the only one missing here is "Canciones Folkóricas de América" – considering just the studio albums and discounting "Tiempos Que Cambian", which remained unreleased.

  11. Hi! Could you reupload it?

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