Cantos Cautivos
58 results where found for «Far Away»
- Music piece by:Djordje Marinkovic. Chilean adaptation of traditional Serbian song, originally composed in 1916.
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « At Compingin Camp on the island, Mario started telling us about the Spanish lyrics of the Yugoslav song 'Tamo daleko'. The song was not Croatian: it was Serbian. »
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- « Translation from Serbian:
Over there, far away
away by the sea
there is my village
there is my love. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Pedro Humire Loredo
- Testimony by:Pedro Humire Loredo
- Experience in:Tenencia de Carabineros Nueva España, Población San Gregorio, September 1973
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- « This
tonada recalls the horrible situation I was subjected to in the cells of the police station in the San Gregorio district in southern Santiago. »- [...]
- « now that I am far away from you. »
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- Music piece by:Hermanos Núñez
- Testimony by:Germán Larrabe
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 -1976
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- « A very sad song, often performed by parents of young children. »
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- « anguish close by and my child far away! »
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- Music piece by:Julio Numhauser
- Testimony by:Carolina Videla
- Experience in:Cárcel Pública de Arica, 1989-1990
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- « My guitar accompanied me for the entire time that I was deprived of freedom. It was like a magnet. In the afternoon we would sing and play in the courtyard. »
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- « no matter how far away »
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- Music piece by:Collective creation
- Testimony by:Ignacio Puelma
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque, February 1975
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- « The sound of the sea was carried over the cabins of the Ritoque Prison Camp by the wind. It was the daily music given to us as a gift by the ocean. »
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- « 'Se escucha muy lejos' (You Hear It from Far Away), was the title of the song. The lyrics and the music, driven by the instruments, gave life to a song that departed from the traditional music of the Chilean left of the time. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Felipe Chiang Martínez
- Experience in:Regimiento de Infantería Motorizada Nº 23, Copiapó, October-December 1973
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- « I was born in Vallenar, but I have lived in Copiapó practically all my life. At the age of 18, I started working in the mines and also began my political activity. »
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- « when I look at the good so far away from evil »
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- Music piece by:Luis Mella Toro
- Testimony by:César Montiel
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- « The Navy sailors made us sing every day, when we got up very early to raise the flag. We, as the squaddies, had to sing military songs, their songs. »
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- « far away a thousand fortunes await you »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Paicavi Painemal
- Experience in:Cárcel de Temuco, 1985
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- « We set up a band with a group of fellow prisoners. They were young, university students. One of them had a guitar. »
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- « I’m so far away »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Pedro Mella Contreras
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- « In January 1987, when solitary confinement was lifted and we were able to receive visitors, a brother who lived in Santiago travelled to see me. »
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- « I’m so far away »
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- Music piece by:Julio Numhauser, popularised by the band Amerindios
- Testimony by:Carlos Muñoz
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975 - 1976
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- « One of the most important songs in the detention centres. Impossible to count how many times we sang it. Every time someone was released from a detention camp or there was credible information that a person would be sent into exile, a gigantic chorus would sing this song, in a powerful unison. No one could possibly forget it. Especially significant at Tres Álamos, as this was the “exit” camp. »
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- « If freedom was decreed when the prisoner was at another camp, the prisoner would be transferred to this detention centre. In the version sung in the camps, the verse that goes, 'se va, se va, se va y regresará' ('going away, going away, going away and will come back') was replaced by 'se va, se va, se va y no volverá' ('going away, going away, going away, never to come back'). »
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