Basta (album) explained

Basta Album
Type:	Album
Artist:	Quilapayún
Cover:	Quila-ba-69.jpg
Released:	1969
Recorded:	June 1969
Genre:	Folk music World Music Latin Music
Length:	42:44
Label:	WEA International
Producer:	Quilapayún/Eduardo Carrasco
Prev Title:	Quilapayún Tres
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	Quilapayún Cuatro
Next Year:	1970

Basta (Enough!/Das genügt!) is an album that was released by Quilapayún in 1969. It brings together popular and folk songs from Latin America, the former USSR, and Italy. This album included "La muralla"/The wall - one of the most popular folk songs in Latin America - based on the text of a poem by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén.^[1]

The vocal arrangements reach their peak in “Bella Ciao”, “Por montañas y praderas” and “Patrón.” This album – as X Vietnam - shows the internationalism of Nueva Cancion Chilena/ New Chilean Song.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Liner notes

The liner notes below are from the original Basta album release in 1969 and in the re-edition of the album in Italy in 1974, but may not appear with more recent editions.

Track listing

1. ”A la mina no voy” (I won’t go back to the mine) (Colombian folklore)
2. ”La muralla” (The wall) (Nicolás Guillén - Quilapayún)
3. ”La gaviota” (The gull) (Julio Huasi – Eduardo Carrasco)
4. ”Bella ciao” (Goodbye, my beautiful) (Italian folk - Italian partisans Hymn)
5. ”Coplas de baguala” (Verses of Baguala) (Argentinian Folk)
6. ”Cueca de Balmaceda” (Cueca dance for Balmaceda) (Popular)
7. ”Por montañas y praderas (Over mountains and prairies) (Soviet Red Army Hymn)
8. ”La carta” (The letter) (Violeta Parra)
9. ”Carabina 30-30" (A commonly used rifle) (from the Mexican Revolution)
10. ”Porqué los pobres no tienen...” (Why don’t the poor have...) (Violeta Parra)
11. ”Patrón” (Landlord)(Aníbal Sampayo - Uruguayan folk)
12. ”Basta ya” (Enough, already!) (Atahualpa Yupanqui)

Personnel

• Eduardo Carrasco
• Carlos Quezada
• Willy Oddó
• Patricio Castillo
• Hernán Gómez
• Rodolfo Parada

External links

• Out-of-date-link - no longer leads to Basta Album Lyrics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Quilapayún– Basta - Canti Rivoluzionari. discogs.com. 1 January 2014.
2. Web site: Basta - versión original 1969. last.fm. 1 January 2014.
3. Web site: Basta-Versión Original 1969. shazam.com. 1 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200320/http://www.shazam.com/music/web/album?id=53298673. 2 January 2014. dead.
4. Web site: Basta - versión original 1969 by Quilapayún . playlists.net . 1 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200324/http://playlists.net/artists/Quilapay%C3%BAn/album/Basta%2B-%2Bversi%C3%B3n%2Boriginal%2B1969-355314 . 2 January 2014 .