Encounters & Farewells -- 1996 -- Encuentros y Despedidas

Lyrics in English
Letras en español
Sergio Reyes & Carlos Muñoz (Viña del Mar, 1995)


A 60 min. tape of original music from today's Chile. Most of the songs are based on poems written by Chilean people's poet Carlos Muñoz-Aguilera, a resident of the city port of Valparaíso. The music are either original compositions by Sergio Reyes, or his arrangements of traditional folk rhythms of Chile, Argentina and Venezuela.

This tape is a solid denunciation of the current political situation in Chile: a democracy controlled by the military, and a brutal capitalist economic system. Chile is a country full of ex-socialists, now self-defined as "renewed" socialists. These politicians are members of government and of parliament and seem to have forgotten the terrible repression that produced nearly 4,000 missing people, killed thousands and imprisoned tens of thousands.

Reyes and Muñoz did not forget and have produced this unique brave account of their native country, today when many prefer to ignore the past and join in the dance of exploitation.

To order send $11 ($10 + $1 shipping in the U.S.) to:
Sergio Reyes
PO Box 1279
Cambridge, MA 02238
or call: 617 491-6229

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