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Imagine · John Lennon · Imagine, 1971 · Apple Records
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Chet Baker Sings
Chet Baker · 1954
I heard it for the first time in a bar in Montevideo at 2 in the morning. My Funny Valentine was playing and nobody was talking. That doesn't happen with just any record.
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The Jazz: The Music that Invented Freedom as a Technique (1900–1970)
New Orleans at the end of the 19th century was the most musically complex city in North America: an international port where French, Spanish, African, Caribbean and Anglo-Saxon com…
The Paraguayan Contemporary Music: The Generation that Mixes Everything (2000–present)
There is a before and an after in the history of contemporary Paraguayan popular music, and that turning point is not a record or an artist: it's the internet.
The Guarani and its Great Voices: The Genre that Spoke for a Nation (1925–present)
The Guarania was born out of an uncomfortable question. In 1925, <b>José Asunción Flores</b> — the young man from Chacarita who had arrived at the Police Band of Asunción by a mist…
Berta Rojas: The Talking Guitar in Guarani (1966–present)
When Agustín Pío Barrios Mangoré died in San Salvador in 1944, he left no formal school, no institution, and no published method that could transmit his way of playing. He left sca…
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Piano · 4 min
Bohemian Rhapsody would not exist without Freddie's piano
When Freddie sat down at the piano in Rockfield Studio in 1975, he was not writing a song. He was writing a complete work. Without the piano as the backbone, the four sections of the song fall apart.
Armónica · 3 min
Bob Dylan's harmonica reinvented the protest song
Blowin' in the Wind has three chords and a simple melody. What made it timeless was something else: Dylan's harmonica responding to each verse like a second voice made of air.
Guitarra · 5 min
The Stairway Arpeggio: 8 Seconds That Defined a Decade
Four notes. The descending chromatic bass line. And a Harmony Sovereign acoustic guitar recorded with little air. That is how the most imitated arpeggio in the history of rock was born.
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