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Dias y Flores

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I you are looking for an album to start your Silvio Rodríguez collection. This is probably the best choice. Most of the songs have become classics, recorded by recognised artists all over the Spanish and Portugese speaking world and also played on the guitar in intimate venues with friends, at night, around the fire, etc. Regarding the individual songs: "Sueño con serpientes" (I dream of serpents) is one of my favourites ever. It starts with a quote from Bertold Bretch, praising those indispensable men who fight all their life for an ideal. "Santiago de Chile" (on the unfortunate fall of Salvador Allende in Chile), has become a hymn. The verse "Allí yo tuve un odio / una vergüenza: / niños mendigos de la madrugada / y el deseo de cambiar cada cuerda / por un saco de balas" will haunt me forever. "Playa Giron" (Bay of Pigs) was the name of the ship where Silvio spent a few months entertainting the Cuban fishermen. "El Mayor" (dedicated to Major General Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, on the 100th aniversary of his death in the battle of the sabana de Jimaguayú, 12-5-1873) has nother powerful image of the Major galloping on the froth of a sea of blackmen waving machetes and unchained. The list could continue as every single song is one of my favourites. Summary: Unmissable. It deserves not five but six stars!

PULSARDOPPLER17@HOTMAIL.COM Admiro la cualiadad de silvio para descifrar cada clave , exprimir la realidad de cada forma de cada sonido. Indudablemente no es musica para las masas por la sencilla razon que en muy poca gente puedes encontrar un mundo interior de la dimension del de silvio. Hollywood,Fla oscar mi Banda: MK2.3

This is probably the best Silvio album, and it's a good place to start for newcomers. These songs -- Sueno Con Serpientes, El Mayor, Como Esperando Abril, and more -- simply have no parallel in the English-speaking world. They're full of emotion, dignity and an empathy for the human condition. Incredible!

Along with "Rabo de Nube" and "Unicornio", "Dias y Flores" (Days and Flowers) ranks among the best albums ever recorded by Cuban trovadeur supreme Silvio Rodriguez. With a heavy political load in about half the songs (know what you're getting into before you delve into Silvio's music -this is a brilliant musician, but an open suporter of Fidel's communist regime as well), he presents an album that also contains some of the most sublime guitar & piano romantic songs you will ever hear. Even if your Spanish is not all that good, you only need to be a sensible person to not run away from his enchantment. From "La Verguenza", through "Sueño con Serpientes" and "Yo Digo que las Estrellas", and wrapping up with the outstanding "En el claro de la Luna" and the closing track that gives the album its title, Silvio is bound to make you stop and listen if nothing else... because if you let him, Silvio will set up a tent in your heart and make you sing out loud his ballads to your loved one looking at you down from her balcony. Give it a try, you won't regret it.

Excelente. Nunca compro discos por una, dos o tres canciones buenas en el disco, y este no es el caso ya que todo el disco es bueno, pero solamente con las canciones Playa Giron, Sueño con Serpientes y Santiago de Chile, es para darse uno por bien servido! Por eso, gracias Silvio por esa magia de combinar la poesia y la armonia de la musica de una manera brillante.

Muy buen disco de Silvio, uno de sus primeros, pero que no está a la venta en Chile. Sólo conocía la canción Días y Flores, una de mis favoritas por la combinación sin igual de fuerza y sentimiento. Desde que escuché todo el CD lo he buscado y recién ahora lo podré conseguir. ¡Gracias siglo XXI!

This is the first CD of Silvio I think, or the most clasic songs, very nice CD. Silvio is a very unique person, he may play with a guitar or a full simphony.

Muy buen disco de Silvio, uno de sus primeros, pero que no está a la venta en Chile. Sólo conocía la canción Días y Flores, una de mis favoritas por la combinación sin igual de fuerza y sentimiento, y cuya versión en el último CD Mariposas no es la original. Desde que escuché todo el CD lo he buscado y recién ahora lo podré conseguir. ¡Gracias siglo XXI!