Toda Violeta Parra: El folklore de Chile Vol. VIII explained

Toda Violeta Parra: El folklore de Chile Vol. VIII
Type:studio
Artist:Violeta Parra
Cover:Toda Violeta Parra.png
Released:1961
Genre:Chilean folklore
Length:44:38
Label:Odeón
Prev Title:Tonadas
Prev Year:1961
Next Title:El folklore de Chile según Violeta Parra
Next Year:1962

Toda Violeta Parra: El folklore de Chile Vol. VIII is an album by Violeta Parra released on the Odeón label in late 1961. It was the fifth full-length album by Parra and part of Odeón's "El folclore de Chile" series to which Parra contributed five albums. The album contains 14 songs collecting Parra's work as a folk songwriter at different stages of her career. The album was Parra's first to explore issues of social justice and includes three tracks (A5, A7, and B5) in which she set to music poems of Nicanor Parra and Pablo Neruda.[1] [2]

The album cover features photographs by Fernando Krah. The original release included liner notes by Gastón Soublette.[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Violeta Parra, except tracks A5 and A7 (lyrics from poems of Nicanor Parra) and B5 (lyrics from poem of Pablo Neruda).

Side A

  1. "Hace falta un guerrillero" (tonada) 3:49
  2. "Veintiuno son los dolores" (canción "golpeadita") 2:16
  3. "Por la mañanita" (tonada) 2:53
  4. "El día de tu cumpleaños" (chapecao) 1:51
  5. "El chuico y la damajuana" (refalosa) (Nicanor Parra, Violeta Parra) 2:16
  6. "Yo canto la diferencia" (canción "chicoteada") 2:16
  7. "El hijo arrepentido" (tonada) (Nicanor Parra, Violeta Parra) 4:10

Side B

  1. "Amigos tengo por ciento" (décimas por los elementos) 3:12
  2. "Por pasármelo Toman..." (cueca "recortada") 1:37
  3. "Qué te trae por aquí" (canción tonada a lo guitarrón) 4:12
  4. "Casamiento de negros" (parabienes) 1:44
  5. "El pueblo" (Pablo Neruda, Violeta Parra) 3:03
  6. La jardinera" (tonada) 3:03
  7. Puerto Montt está temblando" (décimas en contrapunto por el terremoto) 5:50

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Toda Violeta Parra (Violeta Parra) [1961]]. Cancioneros.com. November 24, 2020.
  2. Liner notes from the first edition.