Pongo en tus manos abiertas

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Pongo en tus manos abiertas
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Studio album by
Víctor Jara
ReleasedJune, 1969
Recorded1969
VenueSantiago, Chile
GenreFolk music
Protest music
Nueva canción
Length41:23
Label
Warner Bros. Records
ProducerVíctor Jara
Víctor Jara chronology
Canciones folklóricas de América
(1968) 		Pongo en tus manos abiertas
(1969) 		Canto libre
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4.5/5 stars[1]

Pongo en tus manos abiertas ("I Put Into Your Open Hands") is the fourth studio album recorded by the Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara with musicians from Quilapayún in June, 1969. It was the third album released by the DICAP record label.[2]

In April 2008, the magazine Rolling Stone Chile ranked this album in fifth place within the 50 best Chilean albums of all time.[3]

Composition and lyrics[]

The album includes songs written by Jara like "A Luis Emilio Recabarren", a song tribute to the founder of the Communist Party of Chile, Luis Emilio Recabarren:[4]

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

The album include Jara's versions from songs "A desalambrar" and "Camilo Torres" (known also as Cruz de Luz), both are by Uruguayan composer Daniel Viglietti, this latter is a tribute song to the Colombian priest of the same name. The album also include Latin American lullaby, "Duerme, duerme negrito", collected by Atahualpa Yupanqui,[5] "Juan Sin Tierra", a tribute song to the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata written by Jorge Saldaña and sung by Víctor Jara.[6] "Zamba del Che", a tribute song to the Argentine guerrilla Che Guevara, composed in 1967 by Mexican Rubén Ortiz Fernández,[7] and "Ya parte el galgo terrible", written by Sergio Ortega and Pablo Neruda.[8]

"Preguntas por Puerto Montt" is a song commenting Puerto Montt massacre, Chile,[1] in March 9, 1969. Jara condemns the then Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, one of the main authors of the massacre and for the death of 11 men, women, and children during the massacre of Puerto Montt. In this massacre the Minister of the Interior Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, the Mayor surrogate of the area , and authorized 200 armed police in the operation, to 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 population suffered shot wounds, many were killed, including a 9-month-old child.[9]

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.

The album contained "Te recuerdo amanda" ("I remember you Amanda"), one of Víctor Jara most famous songs,[10] which has been adapted to various languages and interpreted by various artists from all over the world such as Joan Baez, Robert Wyatt, Raimon and Cornelis Vreeswijk.

Liner notes[]

Luis Emilio Recabarren (1876-1924): the founder of the Chilean labor movement and the Communist Party of Chile in 1922. He dedicated his life to the political organization of the working class and he was the first to emphasize the important role that cultural activity and the arts could play in the development and emancipation of working-class people. Though Recabarren was not primarily an artist his conception of art and politics profoundly influenced progressive and popular artists and culture in Chile.

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.

—Santiago, June 1969 [11]

Track listing[]

Side A

All tracks are written by Víctor Jara, except where indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."A Luis Emilio Recabarren" 2:49
2."A desalambrar"Daniel Viglietti, versioned by Víctor Jara1:36
3."Duerme, duerme negrito"Latin American lullaby, versioned by Víctor Jara2:49
4."Juan sin Tierra"Jorge Saldaña, versioned by Víctor Jara3:09
5."Preguntas por Puerto Montt" 2:39
6."Móvil Oil Special" 2:46
Total length:14:28

Side B

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Camilo Torres"Daniel Viglietti, versioned by Víctor Jara3:04
2."El Martillo"Lee Hays and Pete Seeger, versioned by Víctor Jara2:49
3."Te recuerdo amanda" 2:33
4."Zamba del Che"Rubén Ortiz Fernández3:39
5."Ya parte el galgo terrible"Sergio Ortega and Pablo Neruda, versioned by Víctor Jara1:50
6."A Cochabamba me voy" 2:26
Total length:16:27

2001's extended version[]

Re-release from March, 2001 by Warner

All tracks are written by Víctor Jara.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Plegaria a un Labrador" (a Single version what Víctor Jara composed with the group Quilapayun.)Víctor Jara & Patricio Castillo3:02
2."Cueca de Joaquín Murieta" 1:36
3."Tonada para guitarra" (Version in live at the "Peña de los Parra" of 1970.) 1:14
4."Te Recuerdo Amanda" (Version in live at the "Peña de los Parra" of 1970.) 3:06
5."Plegaria a un Labrador" (Version in live at the "Peña de los Parra" of 1970.)Víctor Jara & Patricio Castillo3:32
6."El arado" (Version in live of 1970.) 3:48
Total length:16:22

Bibliography[]

  • Jara, Joan. (1983). Victor: An Unfinished Song. Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 0-224-01880-9

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Pongo en Tus Manos Abiertas - Victor Jara | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic: www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. ^ Discoteca del Cantar Popular (Record Label of Popular Song) was a record label established by the Communist youth that would issue music albums that commercial record companies were not prepared to release in Chile at the time.
  3. ^ "Los 50 Mejores Discos Chilenos - RYM/Sonemic". Rate Your Music: rateyourmusic.com. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  4. ^ Rodríguez, Juan Pablo González; Vásquez, Oscar Ohlsen; Cruz, Claudio Rolle. Historia social de la música popular en Chile, 1950- 1970 (in Spanish). Ediciones UC. ISBN 978-956-14-2632-0. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  5. ^ Carreño Bolivar, Rubí. (2017). La rueda mágica (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universidad Alberto Hurtado. ISBN 978-956-357-108-0. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Antiwar Songs (AWS): Víctor Jara - Juan Sin Tierra". www.antiwarsongs.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  7. ^ Tello, Judith Amador (21 July 2020). "Evocación de Rubén Ortiz y su famosa 'Zamba del Che"". www.proceso.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Ya parte el galgo terrible (Pablo Neruda - Sergio Ortega)". CANCIONEROS.COM. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  9. ^ Jara, Joan (1983), pp.124-125
  10. ^ ADN Radio Chile (17 September 2020). ""Letra y Música" y el legado musical y político de Víctor Jara, a 47 años de su asesinato". ADN (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  11. ^ Liner notes that appeared on the original DICAP Pongo en tus manos abiertas release in June, 1969. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2011-10-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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