Latin american leftist folk music

[Kingnothing]

Hey, if anyone is looking for latin american revolutionary music i would defenetely recommend these:
Victor Jara (chilean communist murdered by pinochet)
Quilapayun (latin american folk)
Paco Ibañez (spanich communist folk)
Leon Gieco (argentine rock/folk)
Pedro y Pablo (argentine 70´s protest songs)

[ZaPaTiStA SoCiAlIsTa]

Cafe tacuba is also very traditional in its latin american sounds! they are my fav. band. I would recomend:
-Flores de color de la mentira
-tropico de cancer
-el fin de la infancia
I also recomend Los fabulosos cadillacs, who have very political messages in their music. They have a song dedicated to victor jara, its called "El matador"
well those are my recomendations!!!

[Kingnothing]

I´ve hear some cafetacuba and i think they have nice rythims but.. are there lyrics any good? iv´e never read any... Some of the lyrics of the mexican band Molotov are very good...

[ZaPaTiStA SoCiAlIsTa]

Well, those three songs have excellent lyrics, the rest of their songs are just great rythims, but Los fabulosos cadillacs are very good! try them out, especially those songs i posted!

[Kingnothing]

I have heard los fabulosos cadillacs, i´ve got thier cd vasos vacios which inculdes the song matador.. it´s lyrics are excelent and the rythym is very catchy.. waht else do you recomend?

[Malvinas Argentinas]

AGUANTE LOS REDONDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LA BANDA DE LA GENTE

encima, el indio(el cantante), es rojo a muerte

[elizquierdista]

I'm surprised at you guys. You forgot to mention:
Daniel Viglietti
Mario Benedetti (excellent poems)
Mercedes Sosa

[chupacabra]

A mi me gusta Manu Chao !

[chupacabra]

Bruce Cockburn has spent years composing
songs that rebel against the injustices he has witnessed during his travels in Latin America. This is a song on the land where I was born.

Nicaragua
.....breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze --
on the cliff the U.S. Embassy frowns out over managua like dracula's tower the kid who guards fonseca's tomb
cradles a beat-up submachine gun --
at age fifteen he's a veteran of four years of war
proud to pay his dues he knows who turns the screws
baby face and old man's eyes blue lagoon and flowering trees -- bullet-packed masaya streets full of the ghosts of the heroes of monimbo women of the town laundry work and gossip and laugh at me -- they don't believe i'll ever send them the pictures i took for every scar on a wall there's a hole in someone's heart where a loved one's memory lives
in the flash of this moment you're the best of what we are -- don't let them stop you now nicaragua
sandino in his tom mix hat gazes from billboards and coins
"sandino vive en la lucha por la paz" sandino of the shining dream who stood up to the u.s. marines --
now washington panics at u2 shots of "cuban-style" latrines
they peek from planes eavesdrop from ships voyeurs licking moistened lips 'cause in the flash of this moment
you're the best of what we are --
don't let them stop you now nicaragua

From "Stealing Fire" (Managua February 1983)

[El Che]

Hola mutchatchos! I love latin american leftist music, but I like the old stuff, you know in the style of carlos puebla or the venezuelan ali primera. So please if you know any good cantantes de la protesta in that style post the names! thanks!

[RedRevolutionary87]

what about carlos puebla

[lacha]

Ali primera is the best!

but don't think you will find him at amazon.com
try the streets of caracas or visit his website.

several songs about El Che and the sandanistas and Ho Chi Mihn , and Angela Davis, and Tania, and Allende etc. etc.