By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
(Editor's note: Music is also part of social protest. In this case, various artists and producers from around the world have joined together to support Chileans in their demands, releasing this compilation of 52 intense tracks ready to celebrate on the dance floor, made not only to thrill the body but also to exercise the mind and soul.). In short, it is a happy fact that contradicts that flawed preconception that says that the party does not accompany the demands for change made by the most disadvantaged. Quite the opposite: the invitation is to combat selfishness with joy, with the finest sonic expressions. To best explain this album, we include the text by Ezequiel Fanego, which accompanies the press release for Despertar: Chile.
«This compilation was made urgently to draw attention to the current situation in Chile.. The friendship, community ties, rebellion, bodily autonomy, and egalitarian demands expressed in the streets these days constitute an image impossible for the neoliberal right to tolerate., because it allows us to glimpse that another, different life is possible.
The twenty years of Pinochet's bloody dictatorship not only ended Allende's socialist government, turning the country into the world's first neoliberal laboratory, but also succeeded in instilling a deep fear in its people. Any alternative vision to economic calculation, individualism, and meritocracy was silenced, even after the return of democracy. Despite high levels of social inequality, Chile was considered until a few weeks ago as a peaceful “oasis” within a continent marked by social conflict.
But Chile woke up. In October 2019, driven by the irreverence of the new generations, Millions of people are demanding a life worth living. President Piñera's government responded with the only language it knows to address these demands: repression. In cities across the country, protesters are being killed, tortured, and raped by brutal police and military forces, while the media conceals these state crimes. President Piñera insists that it is necessary to return to “normalcy.”, But the people no longer accept that normality. When there is nothing to lose, when there is no desire to go back, fear loses its effect.
We believe that in the spaces afforded by music and in the international networks woven around artistic creation, there also lies, as in the protests spreading across the globe, the promise of a non-liberal existence characterized by solidarity and empathy. This compilation, which will allocate all funds raised to institutions that defend human rights, He expresses that conviction and the hope that recent events will be the starting point for a profound and unstoppable transformation.".
Text by Ezequiel Fanego
Art by 1989
