Artist Inda Ledesma, Héctor Alterio & Armando Tejada Gómez

Release Vietnam

Year Unknown

Label Pincén # 0234

Format LP · Album

Country Argentina

Language Spanish

Songs here 4 in the archive

Unknown date · Album · Pincén # 0234 · Argentina

Poetry / spoken-word record, released in Argentina (Pincén # 0234) with writers associated with the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement. This included: Armando Tejada Gómez, born 21 April 1929 in Mendoza, Argentina, died on 3 November 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Héctor Alterio, born on 21 September 1929 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Inda Ledesma, an actress, born 29 March 1926, in Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died 26 January 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Track titles included: "Pequeña oda a Vietnam" ("Little Ode to Vietnam"), "Viet Cong" , "Informe del ultimo marine en Vietnam" ("Report of the Last Marine in Vietnam") (discussed above), and "Alerta en Vietnam" ("Alert in Vietnam"). The back of the LP said:

"The songs of the Ho-Chi-Minh jail open this exemplary album and serve as a starting point to delve into these fine poetic expressions of a fighting people. The drama of Viet-Nam, which has given rise to a new dimension to human worth, to its capacity for resistance to suffering, and tempered to the maximum limit its integrity, arouses at the same time indignation and admiration, to the point that nowhere country, and where a division is drawn between the defeat of the most powerful empire and the victory of a poor and modest nation that imposes itself by its proud decision to survive and win.

Poetry has flourished in Vietnamese land with the same need to repel the aggressor, we have compiled poems from both the South and the North and in all of them the urgency to rescue as our own patrimony what was known by the foreigner. And what fine spirituality is expressed in them! It will be noted that the deepest and most eternal human feelings are manifested here: love, nostalgia, memory, the need to fulfill civic duties in the face of threats looming over the country. But, above all, love, love as a nourishing source of the energy of the heart in the midst of battles, love for the companion who shares the sacrifice and sleeplessness, the love that one day will be the supreme conquest of beings in a free land.

No aggression against any nation has aroused so much indignation as the one against Viet-Nam; and the protest has consequently taken on a worldwide character. Since the so-called 'dirty war' began, the international clamor has risen in tone, in the universities and in the labor centers where there may be men with a clear conscience, the repudiation of the massacre and violence has not ceased to be expressed for a single day, adhesion to the combatants.

So also poets from different latitudes and different concerns condemned that war and exalted with love that intrepid and small town. The most important creators of our language, preferably Latin American, were chosen to represent this unanimous song of solidarity with the heroic Viet-Nam. Above all geography these poems come together and a living thread of shuddering passion weaves them together. In order to give greater harmony to these two alternate phases of the song, that of the Vietnamese themselves and that of the Spanish language, and to confer greater pathos and grandeur, Inda Ledesma and Hector Alterio have been chosen, two magnificent interpreters, who harmoniously channel that unique and bleeding song of tribute to Viet-Nam and its faith in its victory. The selection of the poems and the translation of the Vietnamese texts are the work of the Paraguayan poet Elvio Romero. I close this record, accentuating the Argentine adherence, a poem by Armando Tejada Gomez said by himself"
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Spanish: "Las canciones de la carcel de Ho-Chi-Minh abren este disco ejemplar y sirven de punto inicial para adentrarnos en estas finisimas expresiones poeticas de un pueblo combatiente. El drama del Viet-Nam, que ha originado una nueva dimension al valor humano, a su capacidad de resitencia al sufrimiento, y templado hasta el limite maximo su entereza, concita al mismo tiempo la indignacion y la admiracion, hasta el punto que en ningun pais, y donde se traza una divisoria entre la derrota del mas poderoso imperio ya la victoria de una nacion pobre y modesta que se impone per su orgullosa decision de supervivir y vencer. La poesia ha florecido en tierra Vietnamito con la misma neceidad de repeler al agresor, hemos compilado poemas tanto del Sur como del Norte y en todos ellos palpita la urgencia de rescatar como patrimonio propio lo que fue holado por el extranjero. Y que fina espiritualidad se express en ellos! Se podra notar que aqui se manifestan los mas hondos y eternos sentiementos humanos: el amor, la nostalgia, el recuerdo, la necesidad de complir con los deberes civicos ante las amenazas que se ciernen sombre la patria. Pero, sobretodo, el amor, el amor como fuente nutricia de la energia del corazon en medio de las batallas, el amor a la companera que comparte el sacrificio y los desvelos, el amor que un dia sera la conquista suprema de los seres en una tierra liberato.

Ninguno agresion a nacion aiguna ha despertado tanta indignacion como la electuada contra el Viet-Nam; y la protesto ha tomado consiguientemente caracter mundial. Desde que se iniciara la llamda 'guerra sucia', el clamor internacion ha subido de tono, en las universidades y en los centros obreros dondres quiera hayan hombres de conciencia limpia, no ha dejado de expresarse un solo dia el repudio a la mantanza ye la adhesion a los combatientes"

Asi tambien poetas de distintas latitudes y diferentes preocupacions condenaron esa guerra y exaltaron con amor a ese intrepido y pequeno pueblo. Los mas importantes creadores de nuestra lengua preferentemente latinamericanos, fueron los escogidos para representar ese canto unanime de solidaridad al Viet-Nam heroic. Por encima de toda geografia se hermanan estos poemas y un hilo vivo de estremecido pasion los entreiaza. Para dar mayor armonia a estas dos faces alternadas del canto, la de los, Vietnamitas mismos y la proveniente de lengua hispanica, y para conferires mayor patetismo y grandeza, se ha escogido a Inda Ledesma y a Hector Alterio, dos magnificos interpretes, quines encausan armoniosamente esa unica y sangrante cancion de homenaja al Viet-Nam y de su fe en su victoria. La seleccion de los poemas y la traduccion de los textos Vietnamitas son obra del poeta paraguayo Elvio Romero. Cierro esto disco, acentuando la adhesion argentina, un poema de Armando Tejada Gomez dicho por el mismo".

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