Top tracks
Listeners also bought
Other World Fusion albums
Other Latin Jazz albums
Put your hands on the remote! browse music »
Lonquen by Francesca Ancarola
view larger image
fave it World Fusion | Latin Jazz
13 tracks | 64 minutes
Released May 2007
on Petroglyph Records
Click 
for a 30-second preview. All tracks are 192kbps high fidelity sound quality. Protected WMA $0.77 or unprotected MP3 $0.88.
listen album 30sec. shuffle buy CD review album promote album
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:09 Lonquen lyrics BUY MP3 02:09 Lonquen lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:09 Lonquen
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:20 Canto Libre lyrics BUY MP3 06:20 Canto Libre lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:20 Canto Libre
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:58 Lo Unico Que Tengo lyrics BUY MP3 03:58 Lo Unico Que Tengo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:58 Lo Unico Que Tengo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:09 El Lazo lyrics BUY MP3 06:09 El Lazo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:09 El Lazo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:31 Angelita Huenuman lyrics BUY MP3 05:31 Angelita Huenuman lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:31 Angelita Huenuman
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:07 Que Saco Rogar Al Cielo lyrics BUY MP3 08:07 Que Saco Rogar Al Cielo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:07 Que Saco Rogar Al Cielo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:43 El Derecho De Vivir En Paz lyrics BUY MP3 04:43 El Derecho De Vivir En Paz lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:43 El Derecho De Vivir En Paz
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:55 Luchin lyrics BUY MP3 03:55 Luchin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:55 Luchin
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 El Cigarrito lyrics BUY MP3 03:44 El Cigarrito lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:44 El Cigarrito
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:56 Poema 15 lyrics BUY MP3 05:56 Poema 15 lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:56 Poema 15
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 El Amor Es Un Camino lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 El Amor Es Un Camino lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 El Amor Es Un Camino
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:56 Te Recuerdo Amanda lyrics BUY MP3 03:56 Te Recuerdo Amanda lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:56 Te Recuerdo Amanda
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:29 Manifiesto lyrics BUY MP3 06:29 Manifiesto lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:29 Manifiesto
Francesca Ancarola pays tribute to legendary Chilean folk icon Victor Jara with her powerful vocals and contemporary latin jazz arrangements of some of Jara's greatest works.
Editorial review
In order to understand the potency of Francesca Ancarola's album-length tribute to the late Chilean folksinger Victor Jara, one must first understand who Jara was. Born in 1932, by the late '60s Jara had become one of the most popular artists in Chile, an anti-authoritarian protest singer and one of the founders of the country's politically charged "new song" movement. That militancy didn't sit well with the leaders of the coup who ousted General Augusto Pinochet from power in September 1973, and Jara was taken, along with thousands of others who disagreed with the right-wing brutes, to a stadium, where his hands and ribs were broken. Within a few days, as he sang defiantly to the crowd, Jara was murdered in a burst of machine gun fire at age 40. Many of his recording masters were subsequently destroyed, but that stadium now bears his name, testifying to his importance within Chilean culture. Ancarola was only five years old when Jara was killed, but like so many Chileans, she considers him an iconic figure in her life, hence this album. While Ancarola's arrangements are often quite different from Jara's own folksy style, she possesses a warm, rich voice that conveys the emotion that oozed from Jara's own work, and she breathes new life into the music not by copying the original ideas but by recasting it. Lonqu?n begins with the a cappella title track, the only original composition on the record, before diverging into an often jazzy, sometimes pop-ish direction, albeit one that never leaves the traditional Chilean elements too far behind. Ancarola prefers simple backing, heavy on the standup bass and acoustic guitar, but she makes great use of that minimal accompaniment, using it to accent her florid outpourings. Some familiar with the work of Jara -- what little that survived has been reissued by his widow -- might contend that Ancarola's vocal delivery is actually too sweet to put across the urgency of Jara's lyrics. Not true: although Jara's words were fiery, there was always an undercurrent of love, hope, and peace there, and Ancarola's creative interpretations make it clear that his work still has meaning today -- maybe even more than it did in his own time. ~ Jeff Tamarkin, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Francesca began composing music at the age of 9 but didn’t receive her first music lesson until she was 15. By 19, she was already winning awards and performing professionally not only in South America but also in Europe and North America. She studied jazz guitar under several masters and plays cello and piano.
Under a Fulbright Scholarship, Francesca attended the Manhattan School of Music where she earned her Masters Degree in Voice with Honors. While classically trained with several opera performances to her credit, Francesca prefers a more contemporary application of her wide-ranging vocal talents.
Widely acclaimed in her native Chile, Francesca was invited to perform for the Chilean Congress and for the new President. She teaches at the University level, continues her studio work and performs regularly in Chile, Europe and South America.
↓ more ↓