my camarada & recent compañero de trabajo/co-conspirator sergio is sort of a jack of all trades.
for one thing he's kind of a rock star. for reals. as in he's played shows all over the us, uk, continental europe, and japan. as in he's one-third of this band, from monument to masses which plays its last show ever tonight at the great american music hall in sf. what kind of music? ummmm... post-rock? i admit to not really knowing exactly what that means except that it's the kind of music like electrelane or stereolab... maybe?? like heavy on the instrumental, light on the vocals, structurally unorthodox. i think. and in the case of fmtm anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist. ok, good.
it's the last weekend of august. weddings, birthday parties, panteon rococo... all kinds of good places to be. but maybe you also need to be at gamh to see fmtm? i hear they put on a great show :)
from monument to masses
the final show
tonight! saturday, 28 august
@ great american music hall, san francisco
doors: 8pm, show: 9
$15
**
the quiet before (thunderbirds are now! mix)
deafening
comrades & friends (loquat mix)
**
wow. on defening that's a translation of victor jara's last poem, written just before his assassination in the estadio chile (audio here by his widow?). beautiful.
but suddenly my conscience awakes
and i see that this tide has no heartbeat,
only the pulse of machines
and the military showing their midwives’ faces
full of sweetness.
...
how hard it is to sing
when i must sing of horror.
...
to see myself among so much
and so many moments of infinity
in which silence & screams
are the end of my song.
what i see, i have never seen
what i have felt and what i feel
will give birth to the moment…...
Showing posts with label victor jara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label victor jara. Show all posts
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
ska-p sings victor jara
so, speaking of favorite cover-songs and of victor jara...
here is ska-p's version of jara's juan sin tierra (landless juan). theirs contains the original lyrics, which comprise a mexican revolution corrido, and also a few lines in honor of jara himself:
no olvidamos el valor de victor jara
dando la cara siempre a la represión
le cortaron sus dedos y su lengua
y hasta la muerte gritó revolución
we don't forget the courage of victor jara
always standing up to repression
they cut his fingers and his tongue
and til death he shouted revolution
juan sin tierra : ska-p (original, victor jara)
and speaking of the land for those who work it (!!)... i was recently developing curriculum on the mst, the brazilian landless workers movement, and came across this history of slogans from 1979 to 2012. ¡que viva el mst!
1979-1983:
Terra Para Quem Nela Trabalha!
Land for Those Who Work on It!
1984-1988:
Sem Reforma Agraria nao havera democracia e só ocupaçao é a soluçao!
Without Land Reform, there will be no democracy & land occupation is the only solution!
1988-1995:
Ocupar, Produzir, Resistir!
Occupy, Produce and Resist!
1995-2000:
Reforma agraria: Uma luta de todos!
Agrarian Reform: A fight for all!
2000-2007:
Reforma Agraria: Por um Brasil Sem Latifundios!
Agrarian Reform: for a Brazil without Large Plantations!
2007-2012:
Reforma Agraria: Por Justica Social e Soberania Popular!
Agrarian Reform: For Social Justice & Popular Sovereignty!
here is ska-p's version of jara's juan sin tierra (landless juan). theirs contains the original lyrics, which comprise a mexican revolution corrido, and also a few lines in honor of jara himself:
no olvidamos el valor de victor jara
dando la cara siempre a la represión
le cortaron sus dedos y su lengua
y hasta la muerte gritó revolución
we don't forget the courage of victor jara
always standing up to repression
they cut his fingers and his tongue
and til death he shouted revolution
juan sin tierra : ska-p (original, victor jara)
and speaking of the land for those who work it (!!)... i was recently developing curriculum on the mst, the brazilian landless workers movement, and came across this history of slogans from 1979 to 2012. ¡que viva el mst!
1979-1983:
Terra Para Quem Nela Trabalha!
Land for Those Who Work on It!
1984-1988:
Sem Reforma Agraria nao havera democracia e só ocupaçao é a soluçao!
Without Land Reform, there will be no democracy & land occupation is the only solution!
1988-1995:
Ocupar, Produzir, Resistir!
Occupy, Produce and Resist!
1995-2000:
Reforma agraria: Uma luta de todos!
Agrarian Reform: A fight for all!
2000-2007:
Reforma Agraria: Por um Brasil Sem Latifundios!
Agrarian Reform: for a Brazil without Large Plantations!
2007-2012:
Reforma Agraria: Por Justica Social e Soberania Popular!
Agrarian Reform: For Social Justice & Popular Sovereignty!
fotos : mst (movimento dos trabalhadores rurais sem terra), brazil. of course, sebastião salgado.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
¡justicia para victor jara!
from today's guardian:
It was the atrocity which symbolised Chile's descent into dictatorship: soldiers used rifle butts to smash the hands of Victor Jara, a political activist and folk singer, so he could not play guitar. Then they shot him 44 times.
Yesterday, almost 36 years later, justice caught up with one of killers. José Adolfo Paredes Márquez, a former conscript in Augusto Pinochet's army, was charged with murder.
The burly 54-year-old was tracked down in San Sebastian, a spa town outside the capital Santiago, where he was working as a waiter and gardener.
Activists who have campaigned for the case to be reopened welcomed the announcement but urged authorities to focus on arresting commanding officers. "There are other people responsible – those who ordered the torture and the execution," said Joan Turner Jara, the singer's English-born widow.
¡¡no a la complicidad!! ¡¡¡justicia para el pueblo chileno!!!
¡¡¡que viva victor jara!!!
**
ni chicha ni limoná : victor jara
It was the atrocity which symbolised Chile's descent into dictatorship: soldiers used rifle butts to smash the hands of Victor Jara, a political activist and folk singer, so he could not play guitar. Then they shot him 44 times.
Yesterday, almost 36 years later, justice caught up with one of killers. José Adolfo Paredes Márquez, a former conscript in Augusto Pinochet's army, was charged with murder.
The burly 54-year-old was tracked down in San Sebastian, a spa town outside the capital Santiago, where he was working as a waiter and gardener.
Activists who have campaigned for the case to be reopened welcomed the announcement but urged authorities to focus on arresting commanding officers. "There are other people responsible – those who ordered the torture and the execution," said Joan Turner Jara, the singer's English-born widow.
¡¡no a la complicidad!! ¡¡¡justicia para el pueblo chileno!!!
¡¡¡que viva victor jara!!!
**
ni chicha ni limoná : victor jara
Monday, January 19, 2009
pinche u.s. government, stealing from us again
mierda. mierda. mierda. this makes my stomach turn...
foto : sf chronicle
it's not enough apparently to steal our land and our labor. also now our music.
not enough to build a 3-tiered fence, extend it all the way into the ocean, put floodlights and barbed wire on it, and set armed men and dogs to guard it. not enough to enact policies that separate families, that force transnational workers to cross further into the desert where they are more likely to die. no, the migra has to try to disguise state propaganda as popular music and infiltrate the mexican radio airwaves as well. but a song cannot go up against the desire to feed a family... a todos los inmigrantes: que dios los proteja en el camino...
culture is a weapon (thank you, amilcar cabral). time for us to use it against them. ¡la tierra es para quien la trabaja!
**
and now for some corridos de verdad (as opposed to the fake migra-sponsored variety)...
here is amparo ochoa's version of a famous corrido which dates from the days of the mexican revolution:
adelita : amparo ochoa
victor jara (chileno) had such an affection for the corrido that he recorded a mexican revolution one too:
el corrido de pancho villa : victor jara
also here is the obligatory narco-corrido, perfected by los tucanes:
niño de oro : los tucanas de tijuana
and, of course, any proper discussion of these songs should include the beloved corridos of los tigres del norte. and since it's awhile since i posted any rock en español, here are 3 corridos from the tributo a los tigres del norte album, a great compilation of roqueros covering tigres songs.
la tumba falsa : ely guerra
el circo : maldita vecindad
contrabando y traición : la lupita
these lines are from el circo, about political corruption in mexico & the pri party/salinas family despotism. i think they also work for the above-mentioned migra scheme. que se vayan a la chingada esos running dogs.
pura tranza. puro circo. pura farsa.
la misma tranza, la misma farsa, es pura tranza, la misma farsa
pura pura tranza, puro puro circo, pura pura pura pura farsa!
...the Border Patrol now has migracorridos that sing of the danger immigrants face when crossing the border illegally...What Mexican listeners don't know is that the migracorridos are the U.S. government's latest effort to convince migrants to stay home.
: san antonio express-news
foto : sf chronicle
it's not enough apparently to steal our land and our labor. also now our music.
not enough to build a 3-tiered fence, extend it all the way into the ocean, put floodlights and barbed wire on it, and set armed men and dogs to guard it. not enough to enact policies that separate families, that force transnational workers to cross further into the desert where they are more likely to die. no, the migra has to try to disguise state propaganda as popular music and infiltrate the mexican radio airwaves as well. but a song cannot go up against the desire to feed a family... a todos los inmigrantes: que dios los proteja en el camino...
culture is a weapon (thank you, amilcar cabral). time for us to use it against them. ¡la tierra es para quien la trabaja!
**
and now for some corridos de verdad (as opposed to the fake migra-sponsored variety)...
here is amparo ochoa's version of a famous corrido which dates from the days of the mexican revolution:
adelita : amparo ochoa
victor jara (chileno) had such an affection for the corrido that he recorded a mexican revolution one too:
el corrido de pancho villa : victor jara
also here is the obligatory narco-corrido, perfected by los tucanes:
niño de oro : los tucanas de tijuana
and, of course, any proper discussion of these songs should include the beloved corridos of los tigres del norte. and since it's awhile since i posted any rock en español, here are 3 corridos from the tributo a los tigres del norte album, a great compilation of roqueros covering tigres songs.
la tumba falsa : ely guerra
el circo : maldita vecindad
contrabando y traición : la lupita
these lines are from el circo, about political corruption in mexico & the pri party/salinas family despotism. i think they also work for the above-mentioned migra scheme. que se vayan a la chingada esos running dogs.
pura tranza. puro circo. pura farsa.
la misma tranza, la misma farsa, es pura tranza, la misma farsa
pura pura tranza, puro puro circo, pura pura pura pura farsa!
Friday, December 5, 2008
victor jara
te recuerdo, amanda,
la calle mojada
corriendo a la fábrica
donde trabajaba manuel.
la lluvia en el pelo...
**
i remember, amanda
the street wet,
you running to the factory
where miguel worked.
the wide smile
the rain in your hair...
luís sent along this beautiful video, created for victor jara's te recuerdo amanda. jara was a favorite of the chilean working class in the 60s & 70s. he regularly performed at demonstrations and marches, and his songs came to be anthems for unidad popular, the coalition of left organizations & parties that brought socialist salvador allende to the chilean presidency in 1970. in 1973 allende was overthrown by a cia-sponsored coup orchestrated by fascist augusto pinochet, and a dirty war was unleashed on chilean workers, organizers, activists, students, left intellectuals, cultural workers, and others. victor jara was arrested with thousands of suspected dissidents the day after the coup, taken to the chile stadium, tortured, and executed three days later. he was defiant throughout, writing poems and singing songs of resistence until his last moments.
jara's mother's name was amanda, and his father's manuel. this is an approximate translation of his introduction to the song: this song is called te recuerdo amanda (i remember you, amanda), and it talks about the love between two workers... the same ones seen on the street, sometimes without realizing what exists in their souls... two workers, in any factory, in any city, in whichever place in our continent.
te recuerdo amanda : victor jara
gracias, luís, for sending this :)
la calle mojada
corriendo a la fábrica
donde trabajaba manuel.
la sonrisa ancha,
la lluvia en el pelo...
**
i remember, amanda
the street wet,
you running to the factory
where miguel worked.
the wide smile
the rain in your hair...
luís sent along this beautiful video, created for victor jara's te recuerdo amanda. jara was a favorite of the chilean working class in the 60s & 70s. he regularly performed at demonstrations and marches, and his songs came to be anthems for unidad popular, the coalition of left organizations & parties that brought socialist salvador allende to the chilean presidency in 1970. in 1973 allende was overthrown by a cia-sponsored coup orchestrated by fascist augusto pinochet, and a dirty war was unleashed on chilean workers, organizers, activists, students, left intellectuals, cultural workers, and others. victor jara was arrested with thousands of suspected dissidents the day after the coup, taken to the chile stadium, tortured, and executed three days later. he was defiant throughout, writing poems and singing songs of resistence until his last moments.
jara's mother's name was amanda, and his father's manuel. this is an approximate translation of his introduction to the song: this song is called te recuerdo amanda (i remember you, amanda), and it talks about the love between two workers... the same ones seen on the street, sometimes without realizing what exists in their souls... two workers, in any factory, in any city, in whichever place in our continent.
te recuerdo amanda : victor jara
gracias, luís, for sending this :)
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