By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone

Seventy-seven years have passed since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, therefore, January 27th, since 1945, has been observed as Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

The complex Auschwitz(whose official name in German is «Konzentrationslager Auschwitz»It consisted of several Nazi German concentration and extermination camps in occupied Polish territories during World War II. Located in Oświęcim, about 43 km west of Kraków, It was the largest Nazi extermination center, where nearly 1.3 million people were sent, of whom 1.1 million died., The vast majority were Jewish (90 million), although Poles, Gypsies, prisoners of war, communists, regime dissidents, etc. should also be counted.

Due to the large number of subcamps at Auschwitz, there were six prisoner orchestras. There was one orchestra composed of women and four or five others of men, one of them the so-called "Gypsy Orchestra.". “The women’s orchestra” reached a level far superior to that of the men. The orchestra had to play every morning and afternoon as the prisoners marched to or from work. The SS used camp orchestras and songs as a means of humiliation, breaking the prisoners' will, and torture. Both the music played over loudspeakers and the songs prisoners were forced to sing while marching (usually on the way to and from forced labor) were a manifestation of the power wielded by the SS who ruled the camp. The orchestra also played during public executions to force prisoners to listen to certain carefully chosen songs. Sometimes the prisoners' orchestra had to play when deportation trains arrived so that the newcomers wouldn't suspect anything and would walk without resistance towards the gas chambers.

There are still people who deny everything that happened or simply trivialize it. Fortunately, the same music, corrupted by the murderers, has served to soothe the wounds of those who survived and their subsequent generations. Every January 27th, from here to eternity, We owe it to ourselves to remember and honor our dead. 

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For the fourth time in 2022, we're releasing a new weekly chart of new songs made in Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, labeled as Pop, Fusion, Folk, Hip Hop, Folklore, Electronic, Reggae and Rock. Among others, we added the new single from Planet No,  the latest production of Sagan, the new publication of Laguna Pai and the most recent recording of Negra Chávez.

We repeat once again our favorite phrase for these kinds of occasions: Find your headphones, step away from the world and listen. This is the Zonagirante.com playlist for January 28, 2021. 

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Participants:

Sagan (Colombia)

Celest (Mexico)

Sleeper car (Argentina)

Campo Mate (Mexico)

Negra Chávez (Argentina)

Planet No (Chili)

Laguna Pai (Peru)

From Bruces to me + Lion Reggae (Colombia)

Bar + Rossy War (Peru)

Ha$lo Pablito + Ruzto (Colombia)

Magical Dromedaries (Mexico) + McKlopedia (Venezuela)

Elsa and Elmar (Colombia)

Cancamusa (Chili)

Alex Ferreira (Dominican Republic) + Vanessa Zamora (Mexico)

Çantamarta+ Irepelusa (Venezuela)

Emaflu (Chili)

Siddhartha (Mexico)

Toby Deltin (Argentina)

Burning Caravan (Colombia)

Carla Rivarola (Mexico)

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