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312: Victor Jara // Manifiesto
Manifiesto
Victor Jara
1975, Discos Pueblo
Manifiesto is assembled from recordings intended for an album that was to be called Tiempos que cambian (literally Times That Change, or New Times) smuggled out of Chile by Jara’s widow Joan after the folksinger’s torture and murder by the Pinochet junta in 1973. It was simultaneously released by different labels under a variety of titles around the world. My copy hails from Mexico, released by leftist folk label Discos Pueblo, who make their intentions clear in a statement (machine-translated by me) on the back of the sleeve that reads in part:
“We find it necessary to point out that due to its quality and value, Victor Jara’s work should be disseminated, but always by those who identify with it, and not by the transnational companies that financed his return to Chile by organizing the bloody military coup of 1973. [Ed. Something in their use of word “retorno” is probably being lost in translation here; I think it implies something like Jara’s “return to whence he came,” e.g. his burial in Chilean soil.]
Those transnational corporations that today benefit from Victor Jara’s singing, filtering out its combative aspects and presenting it as incomplete, seem to ignore the deep paths that people use to preserve the integrity of the voice of their singers.
This album is our answer.”
The LP is clearly a work of love (and economy), the sleeve purposely left unglued so that it can be opened like a gatefold, revealing testimonies by his peers. There’s scarcely an inch that isn’t crammed with text—even the flaps that cradle the inner sleeve itself hide lyrics to two of the album’s key songs:
The sleeve unfolded.
“I don’t sing for the sake of singing,
or for having a good voice,
I sing because the guitar has sense and reason,
it has a heart of earth and wings of a dove,
it is like holy water that blesses my sorrows.
This is where my song fits, as Violeta said,
a hard-working guitar that smells of spring.
It is not a rich man’s guitar or anything like that,
my song is the scaffolding to reach the stars.
The song has meaning when it beats in the veins
of the one who will die singing truths,
not fleeting flattery or foreign fame,
but the song of a lark to the bottom of the earth.
There, where everything arrives
and where everything begins,
a song that has been brave
will always be a nueva cancion [New Song].”
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Jara’s artistry (which, besides spearheading the nueva cancion movement, also included poetry and theatrical direction) was inseparable from his politics, and the music of Manifiesto is a stirring testament to his talents and the historical moment he occupied, when Chile like Cuba before it seemed on the verge of breaking free from centuries of resource extraction-driven imperialism and making its own way. These songs cannot help but feel elegiac given the circumstances of their release, and indeed they do frequently mourn the historical oppression of the common worker. Jara’s was a lark’s voice, not that of a conventional rabble rouser, and most of these songs seem best suited for night-time gatherings of comrades and lovers or, in the case of the dazzling instrumental “Caicai Vilu” (referencing a Mapuche creation myth), perhaps a rural cotillion. But these songs were recorded during the years of Salvador Allende’s triumph, a movement that Jara had personally helped galvanize, and there is the sense that these are songs about moving in a changed world that still feels almost surreal. Only at the very end, with the rock-inflected call to arms “Canto libre,” does Jara’s Revolutionary sentiment take on a more martial beat, finally unfurling a flag of victory.
That victory would be short-lived of course, as U.S. imperialists would soon back Pinochet’s reign of terror and grind the Chilean people under the heel of fascism for another generation. It’s hard to make an argument that Jara and Allende’s side “won” in any meaningful sense (without an appeal to some abstracted moral arbiter anyway). It may be blinkered to even try, knowing that Pinochet died obscenely wealth in his nineties and that there were never meaningful consequences for his even wealthier American backers, while a despairing Allende perished at his own hand and Jara with his fingers broken and his body riddled with bullets. Yet I do believe that a song can transcend the accounting of atrocities and persist on its own terms. Music like Jara’s will endure as long as there are human beings who seek a recognition of their own worthiest qualities in art. As one of the Mexican edition’s compilers says:
“…his voice will not have coffins or crematoriums, nor dark prisons nor barbed wire, comrades! His voice and his guitar continue the fight, they remain alive seeking victory. And they will also return as flags when the Homeland regains its joy.”
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#victor jara#chilean music#salvador allende#protest music#latin american music#chile#latin america#andean folk#revolutionary music#socialism#operation condor#augusto pinochet#'70s music#leftism#music review#vinyl record
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Happy birthday, June Millington! (b. April 14, 1948)
"I don’t think I came to music. I think music came to me—or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth. And that feels really good because it’s part of the fabric that makes me feel a part of everything." (x)
#happy birthday!#June Millington#Fanny band#Fanny Walked the Earth#classic rock#blues rock#pop rock#rock music#'70s music#1970s#guitar goddess#I TOLD YOU ALL I WAS GONNA SPOTLIGHT JUNE PLAYING SLIDE GUITAR :') or at least for this#I still unfortunately need to legitimately make a gifset of June playing slide guitar. I just don't know which performances to gif!#at least writing IDs/captions take longer than they do to make gifs. LOL I don't know if my IDs are any good but I try :(
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My media this week (18-24 Jun 2023)
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
😊Spark (maribeau) - 44K, Brokenwood Mysteries Kristin/Daniel canon divergence
😍As Sharp as Satin (blackthorn_possum) - 170K, stucky - post-WS Bucky recovery fic - wonderful & stuffed with all the best 'bucky recovery' tropes including but not limited to: avengers family, hurt/whump/comfort, 'the asset becoming bucky' and the few kinks that are not my thing (HTP, mild bloodplay) were easily skippable without damaging the story
😊👂Calculated Risks (InCryptid #10) (Seanan McGuire, author; Emily Bauer, narrator) - finally getting back to the adventures of the Price family, esp Annie, Artie & Sarah who are unfortunately stuck in a different dimension but math will save the day
😊is it a cry i hear (from the deep wood) (steviesunrises (riverdraft), author; grandmacore, artist) - reread for stucky bookclub - 59K, shrunkyclunks with gnc garden witch bucky & a cap!steve who needs to learn to have a life
💖💖 +92K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
Heart Trouble (MoreThanSlightly (cadignan)) - Ted Lasso: Keeley/Roy/Jamie, 6K - post-fight canon divergence - great character voices, several LOL lines
Five Stars (Dira Sudis (dsudis)) - The Sandman: Dreamling, 3K - fully human AU - a very funny 'accidental bath selfie' fic
Up For Grabs (Call_Me_Kayyyyy (Cheeky9274), HaniTrash) - MCU: stucky, 5K - funny, crack-y & pretty hot - love a fic that gives me an Edna Mode cameo
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
Um, Actually - s8, e6-7
Dirty Laundry - s1, e7
Kate Khavari in discussion with Deanna Raybourn
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
Re: Dracula - June 18: Turned his Mind
⭐Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Roxane Gay
Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News - Episode 2: Florida’s First War on Woke
Vibe Check - We’re Sharing War Stories Now
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Flavor Graveyard
ICYMI Plus - The Super Bowl of Private Chef TikTok
⭐Into It - The Culture That Made Me Queer
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Secret Places with Ashley Ray
⭐Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - From Cylinders to Streaming
The Waves Plus - A Year Without Roe
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Hand Collection
Ologies with Alie Ward - Native Melittology (INDIGENOUS BEES) with Krystle Hickman
99% Invisible #541 - The Frankfurt Kitchen
Dear Prudence Plus - How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up With a Friend? Help!
Endless Thread - Deepfake Law 101
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Bone Wars
Switched on Pop - Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant
Strong Songs - "The Chain" and "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac [Recast]
The Soundtrack Show - Jaws, Williams and Spielberg: An Introduction
Re: Dracula - June 24: Dreadful Thing of Night
⭐The Soundtrack Show - Jaws: the Music (Part I & II)
The Allusionist - 178. Uranus
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
Shucked (Original Broadway Cast Recording) {2023}
R&B Radio • 1970s
The Donnas Radio • Popular
Kylie Minogue Radio • Upbeat
Rock Radio • Pump-up
The Hits: '50s
Jaws (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [John Williams] {1975}
Rock Radio • 1990s
#sunday reading recap#bookgeekgrrl's reading habits#bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks#incryptid series#fanfic ftw#kate khavari#deanna raybourn#back at it again with the collegehumor/dropout game shows#shucked#'70s music#the donnas#kylie minogue#'50s music#'90s music#vibe check podcast#the soundtracks show podcast#20k hz podcast#into it podcast#re: dracula#99% invisible podcast#switched on pop podcast#strong songs podcast#the atlas obscura podcast#rachel maddow presents: déjà news#endless thread podcast#ologies podcast#icymi podcast#the waves podcast#dear prudence podcast#the allusionist podcast
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comment on 10cc - im not in love
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Doing a poll on 70s music as a whole since I did a poll on disco
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#Stand By Me#'70s music#covers#Jimmy Ruffin#David Ruffin#the Ruffin brothers#duets#1970s#soul music#Jimmy & David Ruffin#Youtube#I Am My Brother's Keeper#this cover is a an absolute gem
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Debbie Harry & Joan Jett, 1977
#debbie harry#joan jett#punk girl#aesthetic#vintage#old school cool#style#70s style#70s aesthetic#70s fashion#beauty#70s girl#blondie#the runaways#70s music
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Eddie Van Halen
#classic rock#rock#hard rock#heavy metal#Van Halen#Eddie Van Halen#'70s music#'60s music#rock and roll
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273: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band // Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1972, United Artists
Who can endure a sentimentalist music critic? Still, this morning anyway, my heart’s fit to weep over a one-hundred-and-ten minutes of exultant roots music and a beautiful idea executed to perfection. The notion behind Will the Circle Be Unbroken was to use the Dirt Band, a crew of talented longhairs from California, as a bridge between the trendy country rock of the day and the genre’s pantheon of avuncularly voiced pioneers. (And I guess in Maybelle Carter’s case ‘aunticularly voiced.’) Many of these sorts of intergenerational tribute projects give me queasy tasting notes of hapless arts council funding or the rap number from Walk Hard, but somehow this triple LP from the heart of rock’s imperial phase manages to be both reverent of traditional country and bluegrass history and present these genres as living organisms.
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The Dirt Band are joined by a Field of Dreams cast of legends, plus an adjunct wing of ace players like fiddle genius Vassar Clements, and while the Dirties sneak in one original the focus is squarely on the standards. None of these takes supplant the originals, but the recording fidelity, superlative playing, and warm communal energy make for lovely alternatives. Merle Travis’s “Dark as a Dungeon,” one of the greatest folk and country songs of the century, has never sounded more lovely or doomed; Doc Watson gives Jimmie Driftwood’s “Tennessee Stud” a broad-shouldered boisterousness; Earl Scruggs and the Dirt Band’s John McEuen present the classic fiddle reel “Soldier’s Joy” as an infectious banjo duel.
Many of the songs include snatches of studio chatter between the band and their guests: Mother Maybelle sounds like the sweetest old thing imaginable; Roy Acuff comes off like as much of a pompous Haven Hamilton-type as I’d always heard he was; Jimmy Martin gives elderly prospector cricket. The tapes are even rolling for the first meeting of guitar legends Travis and Watson, who have an adorably awkward little chat before declaring themselves “buddies.” These peeks into the process are part of Circle’s artifice, but it feels like an honest attempt to capture the historic nature of the summit. The album rounds off with nods to the deep past in the form of a number of Carter family cuts, an homage to bluegrass father “Uncle” Dave Macon, and a group singalong of the spiritual “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” But then, right there at the end, we get 17-year-old Randy Scruggs performing a solo instrumental take on Joni Mitchell’s 1968 “Both Sides, Now.” The symbolism of the teenaged son of Earl Scruggs playing such a recent (and aptly-named) tune is clear, quietly closing the circle between past and present, a pact sealed.
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#the nitty gritty dirt band#merle travis#doc watson#roy acuff#mother maybelle carter#maybelle carter#vassar clements#uncle dave macon#earl scruggs#jimmy martin#bluegrass#country#'70s music#music review#vinyl record
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
#the rocky horror picture show gif#70s musicals#horror comedy#richard o'brien#time warp#jim sharman#charles gray#cult movies#70s horror#dance number#70s movies#seventies#1975#gif#chronoscaph gif
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My media this week (25 Sep-1 Oct 2022)
🎶 🎶it's the moooost wonderful time of the year🎶 🎶
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
🥰👂 Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot #41) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - I just really love Ariadne Oliver. Absolutely bonkers nonsense plot. So full of 'the youth today is terrible' stuff but for some reason I just find it amusing in this
🥰👂 A Little Light Mischief (The Turners #3.5) (Cat Sebastian, author; Morag Sims, narrator) - adore this novella about Molly (former thief, now lady's maid) & Alice (wrongfully disowned) who team up to be gay and do crime (as reparative justice)
🥰 Stately Homes of Wiltshire (waspabi) - Drarry, 57K, more magical house stuff, on the more lighthearted side (but not without its share of angst)
🥰👂 The Body In The Library (Miss Marple #2) (Agatha Christie, author; Stephanie Cole, narrator) - Stephanie Cole is the perfect narrator for Miss Marple
😍 This, You Protect (Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail #1) (owlet) - 64K, recovering WS Stucky, one of the preeminent classics in the Stucky fandom featuring Cat Eleanor, The Olds, grilled cheeses and sheep pj pants - reread because it's been over 2 years
😍 Team-Building Exercises (Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail #2) (owlet) - 22K, vignettes and short one-shots of the first year of recovery after contact; delightful on its own but made to wrap around the longer sequel
💖💖 +223K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
all i need from you (is all your love) (wearing_tearing) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 34K - just a sweet canon-divergent AU with two loveable dumbasses falling for each other
Behind the Lens and Eye of the Beholder (rhysiana) - TW: Sterek, 2K & 8K - AU where Derek is a landscape photographer - the first is their meet cute, the 2nd is their camping and photography date; a truly delightful AU
Here Lies Steve Rogers, Death By Bucky Barnes (fingerprintbruises) - MCU: Stucky, 11K - oblivious friends/roommates to lovers via accidental dick pics
Keep It for Me (stereobone) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 9K - no one's seen Eddie for 7 years since he was whisked off to witness protection but he resurfaces again for Lucas & Max's wedding
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
nothing to report, watched zero things
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
Hit Parade - Without The Beatles
Hit Parade - The Bridge: Nostalgic for Number Ones
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Enchanted Hart Haus
Switched on Pop - The Vergecast: The future of music pt I
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Broken Angel
Hit Parade - We Are Stardust, We Are Gold-Certified
99% Invisible #509 - Tale of the Jackalope
Vibe Check - The Gag of the Century
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Oyotunji African Village
Shedunnit Book Club - Bonus: Ask Me Anything Part Three
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - MicroHertz #7: Trailers Through the Decades
Into It - Queer Guys for Straight Eyes (Plus: What is Guy Branum Into?)
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
Almost Paradise: '80s Love Ballads
'80s Soft Pop
Presenting Santana
Mexican Rock Legends
Dub Instrumentals
Future Bass Instrumentals
Classic Rock Instrumentals
'70s Mellow Gold
#sunday reading recap#bookgeekgrrl's reading habits#bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks#agatha christie#the turner series#fanfic ftw#infinite coffee and protection detail series#the olds and cat eleanor#vibe check podcast#hit parade podcast#99% invisible podcast#20k hz podcast#the atlas obscura podcast podcast#into it podcast#switched on pop podcast#shedunnit podcast#'80s music#'70s music#carlos santana#fan makers are a *gift*
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Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
1977
"The Chain" is a song by British-American rockband Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album Rumours, which won Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammy Awards and received Diamond certifications in several countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US, in where it is certified 21× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). As of February 2023, Rumours has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the 5th best-selling album of the 1970s and the 9th best-selling album of all time. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2017, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.
"The Chain" was created from combinations of several previously rejected materials, including solo work by Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie. The song was assembled, often manually by splicing tapes with a razor blade, at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Stevie Nicks wrote the lyrics about Lindsey Buckingham as their relationship was falling apart. Buckingham and Nicks share lead vocals on the song.
In 1997, Fleetwood Mac released a live concert CD/DVD package called The Dance, which featured the reunion of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac members. The rendition of "The Chain" reached number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, the studio version began appearing on the charts in 2009, where it peaked at number 81 in the UK. In October 2023, the song was certified quadruple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales and streams of over 2,400,000 units.
"The Chain" received a total of 92% yes votes!
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