Mercedes Sosa en Argentina

Artist: Mercedes Sosa
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731451049927
EAN: 0731451049927
ASIN: B0000015SU

Release Date: 2007-03-02

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Tracks:

Sueno Con Serpientes
Maria Va
Al Jardin De La Republica
Gracias A La Vida
Alfonsina Y El Mar
Como La Cigarra
La Flor Azul
Los Hermanos
La Arenosa
Anos
Los Mareados
Cuando Ya Me Empiece A Quedar Solo
Volver A Los 17
Fuego En Anymana
Polleritas: a.Polllerita Colorada/b.Carnavalito Del Duende/c. Pollerita
Cancion Con Todos

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Customer Reviews:

Mercedes' Return!.......2005-08-05

Mercedes Sosa (1935) is one of the greatest Argentinean folk singer!
She jumped to public attention when she was only fifteen years old winning a singer's radio contest. From that point on she continues growing up as a notorious figure in the folk singers medium.
Due to difficult political situation at Argentina she was forced into exile by military Junta.
She made a triumphant and defiant return early in 1982 with a series of live concerts at Opera Theater. From those recitals this outstanding CD was recorded!

The songs of this CD reflect not only Argentinean music but a wide Latin American repertoire, collected by Mercedes in her forced errand.
"Sueýo con Serpientes" authored by Cuban Silvio Rodriguez presents the struggle between the Poet & the Serpent in a dream like language. Mercedes' voice reaches very high notes singing this song.
"Maria, Maria" authored by Brazilians Milton Nascimento & Fernando Brant, with unmistakable afro rhythm is interpreted brilliantly by Sosa.
Chilean composer Violeta Parra contributes with two top notch compositions: "Gracias a la Vida" sang fervently by all the audience and "Volver a los 17" are delivered with Mercedes giving way to all her sentiment.
"La Arenosa" whose text is authored by Manuel J. Castilla and music composed by Cuchi Leguizamon, two well known folklorists, is a composition more in line with Mercedes' traditional collection.
Finally Mercedes Sosa incursion in Argentinean Rock with Charly Garcia's "Cuando Ya me Empiece a Quedar Solo" and Argentinean Tango with Cobian & Cadicamo's "Los Mareados".
Two big hits to close the CD "Polleritas", traditional motif, sang with unquenchable fire and Isella's "Cancion con Todos" driving the audience absolutely mad!

You shouldn't miss this gem by all means!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.

Buenýsmo!.......2004-10-16

No pierdan tiempo y compren este CD. Es buenýsimo, una selecciýn de canciones que me dý ganas de haber estado en ese concierto....que pena! Pero gracias que hay este CD, que es hermoso como pocos podrýn ser. Y Mercedes estaba fantýstica, en lo mejor de su talento e inspiraciý

THE VOICE AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF A TRAGIC HISTORY.......2003-11-09

It is probably impossible to find new words to praise Mercedes Sosa's voice and place in Argentina's popular music. Through the better part of the last forty years, Mercedes has been the tender and fierce voice of everyone who has been suppressed and quieted by injustice, in Latin America. An exquisite tone and profound interpretation of each song she's chosen to sing has made her a goddess in Latin America and Europe.
Here's a true artist and a committed citizen, singing songs that make no concessions to their beauty nor their message.
This CD is probably her best in many levels, her choices here, cover every song she's made a classic, and the fact this concert marked her return to Buenos Aires -after her exile during the years of Argentina's "infamous decade"- proves that courage must exist closely to creativity to be timeless.
Here you'll find some of the best work from Latin America: Como La Cigarra (Maria Elena Walsh), Solo Le Pido A Dios (Leon Gieco), Sueýo Con Serpientes (Milton Nascimento), and many more great renditions of the best composers from the South of America.
William Carlos Williams said that "there are no news in poetry / yet people die, miserably, / from the lack of what is found there." Well, here is some of that poetry, which I know nourished me and so many others, during some of the worst moments of our beleaguered country.
Five starts because I could not give it ten!

New Fan.......2003-10-28

My Latin American Perspectives professor brought this CD in when we were studing about Argentina and once I heard it I had to get it! Truely fabulous music, I've bought another CD of hers since, but this one is my favorite. Knowing the history of Argentina and the Dirty War where 30,000 people were "disapeared" makes this CD that much more powerful. A definite buy for anyone who loves beautiful music!

ýEXCEPCIONAL!.......2002-04-19

This is just amazing! Her voice just bursts out and fills up any unoccupied corner in the room! To me, words just can't explain it...

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