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Música libre 2010
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Música libre

The album Música libre by Los Bunkers arrived in November 2010 with an unexpected twist: they recorded it in Mexico, far from their native Chile, and did so with Emmanuel del Real —from Café Tacuba— in charge of production. The result was a 12-track album of covers of songs by Cuban Silvio Rodríguez, an artist the band had admired since childhood. They weren’t just paying tribute: the project began almost as a game. During a rehearsal, while testing a version of «La era está pariendo un corazón», they found the sound fit their style. Francisco Durán put it this way: «Sometimes we warm up with others’ songs that inspire us. This is pure freedom.»

Year
2010
Songs
1
Duration
4 min 1 seg
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About the album

Música libre, according to DoReSol

The first single, «Sueño con serpientes», was released in September 2010, and its video —directed by Ángel Flores— premiered a month later. The song made a strong impact: in Chile, the album was sold in newsstands alongside the newspaper Las Últimas Noticias starting in December, and by January 2011 it was already topping sales charts, remaining among the top 10 bestsellers for a year. In March of that year, the industry awarded it a gold record for surpassing five thousand copies. By June 2013, it had sold twenty thousand copies in Chile, making it the fifth best-selling Chilean album in physical format of the 21st century.

Two songs stood out in promotion. «Quién fuera» reached number one in Chile, while «Ángel para un final» —released in April 2011— climbed to seventh place. But it was «Santiago de Chile» that found an unexpected home: it was used as the theme for Los Archivos del Cardenal, a TVN series reconstructing cases from the Vicaría de la Solidaridad during Pinochet’s dictatorship. The music video, uploaded in June 2011, accompanied the series’ premiere a month later. More than a covers album, Música libre became a bridge between generations and a gesture of connection with history.