Sol y Lluvia

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Sol y Lluvia at a concert in May 2012

Sol y Lluvia ( Spanish : sun and rain ) is a band from Chile that has existed since 1978 , which musically belongs to the genre of Nueva canción and is one of the most popular music groups in their home country. One of their mostly politically influenced songs is the title Adios General, one of the most famous Chilean protest songs .

history

Charles Labra, a member of Sol y Lluvia from its inception until 2000, performed in July 2010 with his later band Antu Kai Mawen

Sol y Lluvia was founded in August 1978 by the brothers Amaro Labra ( vocals and guitar ) and Charles Labra ( drums ) together with other musicians. The band was created in the context of resistance against the military dictatorship that had existed in Chile since the 1973 coup . From the mid-1980s, Jonny Labra, the younger brother of Amaro and Charles Labra, played bass in the group. She became known in German-speaking countries through an appearance in the GDR at the 19th Festival of Political Song in February 1989. The following year, the live album Adiós general, adiós carnaval , a recording of a concert with around 30,000 visitors on March 10, 1990 in the Estadio Santa Laura was released . The background to this was Augusto Pinochet's handover of office to his democratically elected successor, Patricio Aylwin, on the following day, which was one of the most important events during Chile's return to democracy .

Since 1996, Harley Labra, Amaro Labra's son, has also been part of the band. At a concert in April 1999 at the Estadio Nacional de Chile , Sol y Lluvia became the first Chilean music group with more than 50,000 visitors to perform. A year later, Charles Labra left the group due to differences in commercial success. In the following years he founded his own band, whose name Antu Kai Mawen also means sun and rain in the indigenous Mapudungun language . For the most part, the group plays the same repertoire as Sol y Lluvia, but mainly performs on a smaller scale such as street concerts. With Juan Flores, who first switched to Illapu and later to Inti-Illimani , and Patricio Quilodran, who joined Chico Trujillo , other members left the band. In 2013 Jonny Labra also left.

style

The lyrics of most of the songs by Sol y Lluvia are shaped by the politically progressive attitude of the musicians and accordingly have socially critical topics as their content. Stylistically, the band can be assigned to mestizo music and part of the nueva canción genre , which originated in Chile and combines typical elements of Latin American music with political texts . Her best-known titles include Adios General , En Un Largo Tour and Voy a Hacer el Amor . The band's instruments include modern as well as classical and traditional instruments, including plucked instruments such as various guitars and charango , percussion instruments such as drums and percussion , wind instruments such as flute , panpipes and saxophone, and keyboard instruments such as keyboard and piano .

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1986: Canto + vida
  • 1987: A desatar esperanza
  • 1988: Mas personas
  • 1989: Testimonio de paz
  • 1993: Hacia la Tierra
  • 2000: La vida siempre
  • 2004: La conspiración de la esperanza
  • 2013: Clima humana

Live albums

  • 1982: Canto es vida
  • 1989: El aire volverá
  • 1990: Adiós general, adiós carnaval
  • 1992: Somos gente de la tierra
  • 2005: Sol y Lluvia vive !!!
  • 2012: Sol y LLuvia 30 Años en Vivo !!!

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Bugueño: Sounds and Colors: Top 10 Chilean Protest Songs Released June 10, 2015 (last accessed July 13, 2015)
  2. ↑ Jorge Leiva: musicapopular.cl: Antu Kai Mawen ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicapopular.cl archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (last accessed on July 13, 2015)