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Atahualpa Yupanqui

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This album commemorates the 110th anniversary of the birth of Atau Arpa Yupanqui, Argentina's world-class folklore master. This album features extremely rare recordings of Yupanqui, who usually performs alone as a solitary performer. The album features Yupanqui performing with the Folklore Unit, Los Cantores de Quijauasi, and Santiago Ajala, aka "El Chucaro," and shows a new side of the giant. Incidentally, this is a recording of Yupanqui's performance from the LP of the same name that was made to commemorate the success of the show "Magia Misterio del Folklore," which was performed at the Teatro Astrale in Buenos Aires in 1965 and received great acclaim. It also includes eight of the nine songs that Yupanqui left to Odeon Argentina in 1966, including the highly acclaimed "I want to be the light. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of his autobiographical masterpiece "Pajador, the Pursued," recorded on November 22, 1963, just prior to his first visit to Japan in January-February 1964.Although it was only released once in 1992 as a bonus disc in the 8-disc Yupanki Collection, it is an important masterpiece that cannot be avoided when learning about Yupanki.