Alturas de Machu Picchu

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Alturas de Machu Picchu
Studio album by Los Jaivas

Publication
(s)

1981

Genre (s)

Progressive rock , Andean folklore

Title (number)

7th

running time

37 min

occupation Los Jaivas
  • Gato Alquinta
  • Gabriel Parra
  • Claudio Parra
  • Eduardo Parra
  • Mario Mutis

Guests

  • Alberto Ledo
  • Patricio Castillo
chronology
Canción del Sur
(1977) 		Alturas de Machu Picchu Aconcagua
(1982)

Alturas de Machu Picchu (also published in the spelling Alturas de Macchu Picchu ) (German: The Heights of Machu Picchu ) is the 7th album by the Chilean band Los Jaivas , released in 1981 . With the album Los Jaivas set part of the eponymous chapter from Pablo Neruda's Canto General . Overall, Alturas de Machu Picchu is considered to be the band's most influential album and one of the most important rock albums in Latin America . The Chilean edition of Rolling Stone magazine listed the album in its compilation of the "50 best Chilean albums of all time" in second place behind Violeta Parras Las Últimas Composiciones . Los Jaivas manage to give Neruda's lines a musical counterpart that goes beyond the mere setting of the poems and sets its own accents. The musical support takes place in the band's typical fusion of progressive rock with Andean folklore , stylistically taking into account the Latin American character of Neruda's Canto General .

title

  • A side
  1. "Del Aire al Aire" (Alberto Ledo) - 2:17
  2. "La Poderosa Muerte" - 11:12
  3. "Amor Americano" - 5:28
  • B side
  1. "Águila Sideral" - 5:22
  2. "Antigua América" ​​- 5:38
  3. "Sube a Nacer Conmigo Hermano" - 4:46
  4. "Final" - 2:37

Unless otherwise indicated, the text is by Pablo Neruda and the music and arrangement is by Los Jaivas.

Movie

Almost as well known as the album itself is the concert film from 1981 in which Los Jaivas play the music from the album live in the ruins of Machu Picchu . Often the film is compared to Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii , because like the film it stages the ruins and the majestic landscape in addition to the music almost equally and also has a high cinematic quality of the recordings and post-production . The framework for the music is provided by an introduction and explanations by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa . It was first broadcast on October 8, 1981 on Peruvian television.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the CD release from 1993 at discogs.com
  2. ↑ http://pazciencia.bligoo.com/content/view/172211/Los-50-Mejores-Discos-Chilenos.html