POLITICAL CHANTS FOR THE FUTURE
music album

Using audio material recorded live during the workshop at the ICA and taken from the epic documentary 'La Batalla de Chile' (dir. Patricio Guzman), I edited a series of new chants. Audio loops that disarticulate the meaning of the original chants whilst maintaining their formal structure. The aim is to resist the nostalgia and melancholia implicit in those 70's political chants. The political chants for the future are experienced as blocks of sound or sound weapons for cities of 50-100 million people.

composed by Leandro Cardoso
mastered by Alexandre Marino
CD cover design by Caetano Carvalho

In 1970, Salvador Allende was the first declared Marxist to be democratically elected president in the American continent. His plans for a socialist nation, and indeed, for a socialist continent, met a tragic end with the bombardment of the presidential palace in 1973 (the other 9/11). During the nearly three years of his government, the streets of Chile staged a multitude of protests for and against the Unidad Popular. Political chants marked territory and replicated messages nationwide and beyond. The chants functioned as rhythmic order-words, beams for an alternative communication network that included free radio, mural painting, public speeches, popular music, placards, processions, bomfires...