"Arriba en la Cordillera" (translanted: "Up in the Mountain Range") is a song by the Chilean singer-songwriter Patricio Manns released as single in 1965 and included in the 1966 studio album Entre Mar y Cordillera. It reached #1 on the Chilean charts and was chosen as the most popular song at Huaso de Olmué Festival in 2009.
| "Arriba en la Cordillera" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 7" single label (1965) | ||||
| Single by Patricio Manns | ||||
| from the album Entre Mar y Cordillera | ||||
| Language | Spanish | |||
| B-side | "Ya no Canto tu Nombre" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:41 (Original Version) 3:38 (1999 Version) | |||
| Label | Demon | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Patricio Manns | |||
| Producer(s) | Camilo Fernández | |||
| Patricio Manns singles chronology | ||||
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Background
editIn 1965, he left several of his jobs to settle in Santiago de Chile as a journalist for Canal 9 of the University of Chile.[3] In it, Manns met Luis "Chino" Urquidi, a composer and arranger who worked with Los Cuatro Cuartos, a group that cultivated neofolk.[4] In April of that year, the Peña de los Parra was inaugurated and he met the most important Chilean producer of the time, Camilo Fernández, an Demon label executive (later called Arena) who had the intention of recording with all the musicians of the peña, including Manns. Fernández proposed the idea of recording a disk and promote him as a key figure of the Nueva canción chilena.[3]
Composition and recording
editHe wrote the song in a single night using as inspiration the memories he had of different moments in his young life.[5] Especially one in which Manns and his cousin, emboldened by alcohol in their hometown, Nacimiento, decided to burn down the sawmill of a relative with whom "they were at odds". Although they did not get to perpetuate the act, the police went after them. Both started on horseback towards the Andean hills during weeks.[6]
They first entered the interiors of Los Angeles,[7] to then leave the place and travel towards the Atacalco pass, settling in Laguna del Laja—known as lagos cumbrereros—where they lived and knew the experiences of a group of muleteers, those who earned their living as rustlers steal Argentine cattle to sell them to Chilean territory such as Los Angeles or Mulchén.[1][6] One of them told Manns that his father had been shot dead in Atacalco by Argentine gendarmerie while stealing cattle from their territory.[8]
Manns also captured through the song's huapango rhythm his Mexican music lessons learned during childhood.[6] The next day, Manns recorded it on the Demon label thanks to Camilo's initiative.[3][9] It featured the chorus of Los Cuatro Cuartos,[10] and two members from Las Cuatro Brujas, both summoned by Urquidi.[11][12]
Release
editThe song was released as single in 1965 on Demon label,[13][14] it began to play on radio stations not accustomed to folk music and several copies of the single were sold out in almost all the record stores in Santiago,[12] becoming the label's best-selling disk.[3] It also reached No. 1 on the Chilean music charts,[15] and then it was included along with other songs of his such as "Bandido" or "Los mares vacios" in 1966 album Entre Mar y Cordillera (Between Sea And Mountain Range),[3] which was also released on said label and "which marked the development of nueva canción as an increasingly distinctive musical genre and exposed a wider public to this form of musical expression."[16][17]
Music video
editThe official music video was released in October 1972 under the direction of Hugo Arévalo, who is considered «the father of the video clip in Chile». In it, Patricio rides on horseback in Andes Mountains with a group of muleteers that both Manns and Arévalo obtained from the area of Farellones. According to the Arévalo words: "He had made this same story, this same section, he only tells his real experience, what he lived".[18][19]
Legacy
editManns after the success of "Arriba en la Cordillera", he was recognized as one of the main figures of neofolk.[9] It was performed by various bands and singers such as Quilapayun, Inti-Illimani, Mon Laferte or Los Miserables.[20][21][22] Ginette Acevedo achieved great success for his respective version of "Arriba en la Cordillera".[23] Antuco declared Manns as an illustrious citizen for this song.[24] In 1987, the Chilean rock band Emociones Clandestinas released the album Abajo en la costanera, with a parody title of the song.[25]
It is considered one of the songs most representative of the Nueva canción chilena and one of the most important Chilean popular music of the 20th century as well as other such as "Gracias a la vida" by Violeta Parra or "Te recuerdo amanda" by Victor Jara.[1] In January 2009, it was chosen as the most popular song in the history of Chile at Huaso de Olmué Festival, and as award, Manns received the Golden Guitrapin and 4 million pesos.[26][27] Surpassing other compositions nominated as "Si somos americanos" by Rolando Alarcon, "Te recuerdo amanda" by Víctor Jara, "Volver a los 17" by Violeta Parra and "Viva Chile" by Luis Bahamonde.[28][29]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Memorias de Biobío: El paso de Atacalco que está "Arriba en la cordillera" (de Biobío)". La Tribuna (in Spanish). 22 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ Redolés, Mauricio (29 September 2021). "VOCES| ¡Sorry Pato!: La íntima despedida de Redolés a Patricio Manns". El Desconcierto - Prensa digital libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Daza, Baltasar (September 2021). "Arriba en la cordillera: historia de una canción urgente de Patricio Manns". PANIKO.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ Vergara, Pablo Retamal N. y Claudio (25 September 2021). "Patricio Manns: la huella mayúscula de un hombre clave de la cultura popular chilena". La Tercera. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Universidad Central de Chile (3 July 2015). "50 años de "Arriba en la Cordillera" y de carrera musical, Patricio Manns en concierto" [50 years of "Arriba en la Cordillera" and a musical career, Patricio Manns in concert] (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ a b c Leiva, Jorge (1 October 2021). "El Chile profundo de Patricio Manns". CIPER Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ "El "condoro" de Patricio Manns que inspiró "Arriba en la cordillera", su tema más emblemático". BioBioChile - La Red de Prensa Más Grande de Chile (in Spanish). 25 September 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ Ponce, David; Díaz, Iñigo; Leiva, Jorge; García, Marisol (1 January 2021). Fundamentales de la música chilena (in Spanish). Hueders. p. 117. ISBN 978-956-365-207-9. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ a b "Patricio Manns (1937–2021)". Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ Iturra, Jorge Montealegre (1 January 2018). Wurlitzer: Cantantes en la memoria chilena (in Spanish). Canopus Editorial Digital Sa. p. 16. ISBN 978-956-9985-44-7. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ "Arriba en la cordillera/Ya no canto tu nombre (Patricio Manns) [1965]". Cancioneros - Diario Digital de Música de Autor. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ a b Culto, Equipo de (25 September 2021). "Grabada en una noche producto de la urgencia: la historia tras Arriba en la Cordillera". La Tercera. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ Rodríguez, Juan Pablo González; Vásquez, Oscar Ohlsen; Cruz, Claudio Rolle. Historia social de la música popular en Chile, 1950- 1970 (in Spanish). Ediciones UC. ISBN 978-956-14-2632-0. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ "Hits Of The World". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 23 October 1965. p. 33. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ "Hits Of The World". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 11 September 1965. p. 37. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ "Patricio Manns: Entre mar y cordillera". Perrerac (in Spanish). January 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ Mularski, Jedrek (28 November 2014). Music, Politics, and Nationalism In Latin America: Chile During the Cold War Era. Cambria Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-62196-737-8. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ ""Arriba en la cordillera": La historia detrás de la canción más emblemática de Patricio Manns". T13. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Patricio Manns: Arriba en la Cordillera (1972)". Perrerac (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Luto en la música chilena: a los 84 años falleció Patricio Manns". Es Hoy (in Spanish). 25 September 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ Hugo Lagos. "Arriba en la cordillera". Quilapayun.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Los Miserables's 'Arriba en La Cordillera' - Discover the Original Song". WhoSampled. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Ginette Acevedo". MusicaPopular.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ Rivera, Juvenal (11 January 2021). "Antuco declarará ciudadano ilustre a Patricio Manns por canción "Arriba en la Cordillera"" [Antuco will declare Patricio Manns an illustrious citizen for the song "Arriba en la Cordillera"]. La Tribuna (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Bustamante L., Marcelo (14 December 2016). "Emociones Clandestinas y su nuevo disco: la leyenda que vive". LaRata.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ "Manns a toda orquesta". Revista Nos (in Spanish). 29 September 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ^ "Festival de Olmué proclama a "Arriba en la Cordillera" como la canción chilena más popular". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Chile. 26 January 2009.
- ^ "Patricio Manns: Haber triunfado en Olmué significa mucho para mi carrera". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 26 January 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ^ "Arriba en la Cordillera elegida la mejor canción chilena de todos los tiempos en Festival de Olmué". La Tercera (in Spanish). 26 January 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2021.