''Basta'' ''(Enough!/Das genügt!)'' is an album that was released by

Quilapayún Quilapayún () are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the ''Nueva Canción Chilena'' movement and genre. Formed during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution th ...

in 1969. It brings together popular and folk songs from Latin America, the former USSR, and Italy. This album included "La muralla"/The wall - one of the most popular folk songs in Latin America - based on the text of a poem by the Cuban poet

Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 17 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.

. The vocal arrangements reach their peak in ''“ Bella Ciao”, “Por montañas y praderas”'' and ''“Patrón.”'' This album – as X Vietnam - shows the

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of Nueva Cancion Chilena/ New Chilean Song.

Liner notes

The

liner notes Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for cassettes. Origin Liner notes are desc ...

below are from the original Basta album release in 1969 and in the re-edition of the album in Italy in 1974, but may not appear with more recent editions.

Track listing

#”A la mina no voy” (I won’t go back to the mine) (

Colombian folklore Colombian folklore are beliefs, customs and cultural traditions in Colombia. Cultural influences Colombia has traditional folk tales and stories about legendary creatures, which are transmitted orally and passed on to new generations. Some ...

) #”La muralla” (The wall) (

) #”La gaviota” (The gull) (Julio Huasi –

Eduardo Carrasco Eduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard (born July 2, 1940 in Santiago) is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 t ...

) #” Bella ciao” (Goodbye, my beautiful) (Italian folk -

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Hymn) #”Coplas de baguala” (Verses of Baguala) (Argentinian Folk) #”Cueca de Balmaceda” (Cueca dance for Balmaceda) (Popular) #” Por montañas y praderas (Over mountains and prairies) (

Soviet Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

Hymn) #”La carta” (The letter) (

Violeta Parra Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal an ...

) #”Carabina 30-30" ( A commonly used rifle) (from the Mexican Revolution) #”Porqué los pobres no tienen...” (Why don’t the poor have...) (

) #”Patrón” (Landlord)(Aníbal Sampayo -

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an folk) #”Basta ya” (Enough, already!) (

Atahualpa Yupanqui Atahualpa Yupanqui (; born Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburu; 31 January 1908 – 23 May 1992) was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century. Biography ...

)

Personnel

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* Willy Oddó *

Patricio Castillo Patricio Castillo may refer to: * Patricio Castillo (actor, born 1974), Spanish-Chilean voice actor, singer and songwriter * Patricio Castillo (actor, born 1940) (1940–2021), Chilean-born Mexican actor * Patricio Castillo (folk musician) Patr ...

*Hernán Gómez * Rodolfo Parada

References

External links

Out-of-date-link - no longer leads to Basta Album Lyrics
{{Authority control Quilapayún albums Spanish-language albums 1969 albums