Silvio Rodríguez

La era esta pariendo un corazon

Mascarones · Cuba

La era esta pariendo un corazon – Silvio Rodríguez (Sleeve (front))

Artist
Silvio Rodríguez
Title
La era esta pariendo un corazon
Release
Vietnam mascarones
Label
Mascarones
Format
LP · Album
Language
Spanish
Country
Cuba
Songwriter
Silvio Rodríguez
Genre
Hispanic Music · Nueva canción latinoamericana
Primary theme
Vietnamese Patriotic

Notes

Mascarones production (logo with a portrait of Che Guevara and "Producción Mascarones"); no catalogue number or year printed. The front sleeve shows a pop-art Vietnamese woman fighter in a leaf-camouflaged helmet with a stethoscope, foliage on her back and a machine gun, before a yellow star on blue and red, lettered "Vietnam" and "Mascarones"; "Portada: Recreación sobre un cartel cubano: Javier Salinas". The back is typewritten, with a painting of Ho Chi Minh raising his fist over massed crowds, and the dedication "Al heroico pueblo de Viet-Nam, vanguardia y ejemplo en la lucha contra el imperialismo yanki. Viet-Nam, un mundo donde el hombre alcanza su dimensión más alta." Poems are by Félix Pita Rodríguez, "poeta cubano (1909), de su libro 'Viet-Nam, notas de un diario'"; songs by Silvio Rodríguez (1946) and Pablo Milanés (1943), "jóvenes compositores de Cuba"; adaptation and voices…

About the artist

Cuban singer-songwriter, born 29 November 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba; leading figure of the nueva trova movement. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War · Vietnamese Patriotic · Vietnamese Perspective

In collections

Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music

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