VA - Primer festival internacional de la canción popular (1973)

When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile´s presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power. Folk singers emerged at the forefront, proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. As the CIA actively funded opposition media against Allende during his campaign, the New Chilean Song Movement (Nueva Canción) rose to prominence, viscerally persuading voters with its music. Victor Jara, a central protagonist at the time, became an icon in Chile, Latin America, and beyond for his revolutionary lyrics and life. Inti-Illimani, Quilapayun, and other musicians contributed by singing before audiences of workers outside factories or campesinos in Chile´s rural countryside.

Primer festival internacional de la canción popular is a live album released on the DICAP label (Discoteca del Cantar Popular). It features artists from Chile (Isabel Parra, Tito Fernandez, Inti-Illimani, Quilapayun, Aparcoa, from Uruguay (Alfredo Zitarossa), from Argentina (Cesar Isella( and from Finland (Agit-Prop).


Tracklist:

A1	–Unknown Artist	Obertura
A2	–Aparcoa	Que Se Vayan Del Canal
A3	–Rolando Ojeda	Guantanamera
A4	–Marcelo	Dónde Está La Paz
A5	–Tito Fernández	Cuando Sea Grande
A6	–Alfredo Zitarrosa	Chamarrita De Los Milicos
B1	–Isabel Parra	En Esta Tierra Que Tanto Quiero
B2	–Inti-Illimani	Cueca De La CUT
B3	–Flora Margarita	A Un Ave
B4	–Agitprop	Paz, Amistad, Solidaridad
B5	–César Isella	Soneto 93
B6a	–Quilapayún	El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido
B6b	–Quilapayún	Las Ollitas

VA - Primer festival internacional de la canción popular (1973)
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VA - New Orleans Rhythm & Blues - Good Rockin' Tonight

Half a century after holding jazz over the baptismal font, New Orleans breathed new life into Black popular music when the time came for rhythm & blues. 

In the wake of the great pianists – from a city whose culture was decidedly rainbow-coloured (Professor Longhair, Archibald, Champion Jack Dupree) –, a new generation of singers appeared post-war and tackled a conjugation of swing and blues with incomparable verve. Along with Fats Domino, who was the figurehead of the new wave, a multitude of creators came to light: shouter Roy Brown, bandleaders Dave Bartholomew and Paul Gayten, crooner Larry Darnell, adolescent duo Shirley & Lee, not to mention Guitar Slim, a flamboyant guitarist capable of electrifying the crowds whose first recordings were made with Ray Charles.

Tracklist:  

1	Mardi Grass in New Orleans (1949)	Professor Longhair		2:55
2	Heavy Heart Blues	Champion Jack Dupree		2:37
3	Careless Love	Fats Domino		2:22
4	Crescent City Bounce	Archibald		2:33
5	Her Mind Is Gone	Professor Longhair		2:41
6	She Won't Leave No More	Little Joe Gaines		2:31
7	Growing Old	Smiley Lewis		2:26
8	Good Rockin' Tonight Trompete: Tony Moret (1947-07) drums: Robert 'Bob' Ogden (1947-07) Altsaxophon: O'Neil Jerome (1947-07) Posaune: Clement Tervalone (1947-07) vocals: Roy Brown (blues musician) recording of: Good Rockin’ Tonight (1947-07) Komponist(in): Roy Brown (blues musician) (1947-07) Texter: Roy Brown (blues musician) (1947-07) Herausgeber: Knox Music, Inc. und Trio Music Co., Inc. spätere Version: I Heard the News (Jesus Is Coming Again) spätere übersetzte Version: Et la voix d'Elvis	Roy Brown		3:00
9	Black Bitin' Woman	Chubby Newsome		2:12
10	Good Jax Boogie	Dave Bartholomew		2:47
11	Where You At?	Lloyd Price		2:22
12	Long About Midnight	Roy Brown		3:15
13	For You My Love	Larry Darnell		2:39
14	The Fat Man	Fats Domino		2:49
15	Country Boy recording of: Country Boy Komponist(in): Dave Bartholomew und Antoine Dominique Domino Texter: Dave Bartholomew und Antoine Dominique Domino	Dave Bartholomew		3:06
16	3 x 7 = 21	Jewel King		1:52
17	I'll Never Be Free	Paul Gayten		3:09
18	Stack-A'Lee	Archibald		4:30
19	Bald Head	Professor Longhair		2:34
20	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Lloyd Price		2:35
21	I'm Gone	Shirley & Lee		2:24
22	The Things That I Used to Do	Guitar Slim		3:05

VA - New Orleans Rhythm & Blues - Good Rockin' Tonight
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VA - American Folk Blues Festival '65

From 1962 until 1971, the American Folk Blues Festival was responsible for bringing dozens of the most celebrated American blues artists to audiences from England to Poland. For many of the musicians, these were the largest audiences they'd ever played to, and the first (and often only) decent money they ever made.

This album is a collection of studio sessions, recorded in Hamburg October 7, 1965, on the occasion of  "The American Folk Blues '65" concert tour produced and presented by Lippmann and Rau-






Tracklist:

A1	–Fred McDowell	Highway 61
A2	–J.B. Lenoir	Slow Down
A3	–Big Walter "Shakey" Horton	Christine
A4	–Roosevelt Sykes	Come On Back Home
A5	–Eddie Boyd	Five Long Years
A6	–Eddie Boyd	The Big Question
B1	–Lonesome Jimmy Lee	Rosalie
B2	–John Lee Hooker	King Of The World
B3	–John Lee Hooker	Della May
B4	–Buddy Boy	First Time I Met The Blues
B5	–Big Mama Thornton	Hound Dog
B6	–Doctor Ross	My Black Name Is Ringing

VA - American Folk Blues Festival '65 
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Youssou N'Dour‎ - Set

Some of the most exciting sounds to come out of Africa in the late '80s and 1990s were produced by Senegal-born vocalist Youssou N'Dour. Although rooted in the traditional music of his homeland, N'Dour consistently sought new means of expression. In addition to recording as a soloist, N'Dour collaborated with a lengthy list of influential artists including Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Neneh Cherry, and Branford Marsalis.                

The title tune "Set" became the anthem of Senegalese youth in 1990. This is the first album N'Dour hasn't re-recorded for the international market. It's very African and his best recorded work to date.                

Tracklist:                                                     

1	Set (Clean)	2:45
2	Alboury	4:15
3	Sabar	2:32
4	Toxiques	3:28
5	Sinebar	4:45
6	Medina	3:22
7	Miyoko	3:42
8	Xale (Our Young People)	4:17
9	Fenene (Another Place)	5:17
10	Fakastalu (Watch Your Step)	3:52
11	Hey You!	3:38
12	One Day (Jaam)	3:26
13	Ay Chono La (Love Is)	3:12

Youssou N'Dour - Set                                   
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Sun Ra - St. Louis Blues (Solo Piano, Vol. 2) (1977)

On July 3, 1977, Sun Ra shared a bill with Paul Bley at Axis-In-Soho as part of the Newport in New York Festival, which was recorded by Bley’s "Improvising Artists" label. A portion of Sun Ra’s set was released on LP in 1978 as St. Louis Blues: Solo Piano, Volume 2. If Solo Piano, Volume 1 was an introspective studio album, Sun Ra is in an expansive, playful mood in front of a live audience. As Szwed points out in his biography, “Bley was surprised to see that once he was alone on stage, ‘Sonny was a ham who liked to clown and surprise the audience’” (Szwed p.343) and there is a bit of that to be found here.

This set finds the normally forbidding keyboardist digging not only into four fairly accessible originals, but "St. Louis Blues," "Three Little Words" and "Honeysuckle Rose." By this time, Ra was starting to reinvestigate his roots in Fletcher Henderson's music and in swing, but these occasionally traditional interpretations remain full of surprises. There is definitely a charm to Sun Ra's solo piano sets.

Tracks:
01 - Ohosnisixaeht (05:50)
02 - St. Louis Blues (05:00)
03 - Three Little Words (05:40)
04 - Honeysuckle Rose (03:20)
05 - Sky and Sun (06:05)
06 - I Am We Are I (06:15)
07 - Thoughts on Thoth (06:27)

Sun Ra - St. Louis Blues (Solo Piano, Vol. 2) (1977)
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