Canciones con fundamento

Four years after her debut, Mercedes Sosa released 'Canciones con fundamento', an album that showcases her artistic evolution and her commitment to singer-songwriter music and folkloric roots with social content. Recorded again at RCA studios, the album presents a more ambitious repertoire and a more careful production, with arrangements of guitars, bombos and charangos accompanying her deep and emotive voice. The title, 'Canciones con fundamento', is a declaration of principles: Mercedes did not sing just to sing, but to convey a message and a commitment to the causes of workers, peasants and indigenous peoples.

The album includes compositions by the great authors of Argentine folklore such as Atahualpa Yupanqui, Jorge Cafrune and Ariel Ramírez, among others. 'Canción del carretero' and 'Luna tucumana' are two of the standout tracks, performed with the passion and deep feeling that were already beginning to characterize Mercedes. Her voice had strengthened and her style was becoming more personal, less influenced by the conventions of the genre and closer to a unique artistic expression. Critics were beginning to pay attention to this singer who, from the north, proposed a different and committed perspective on the country's social reality.

The legacy of 'Canciones con fundamento' is that of an album that anticipates the political and artistic turn Mercedes would take in the following years. It is an important step in her consolidation as one of the most important voices of Argentine and Latin American folklore. The album also brings her closer to the Nuevo Cancionero movement, which promoted popular music committed to social issues and Latin American identity, a path that Mercedes would follow with coherence and passion throughout her career. A fundamental album for understanding the evolution of an artist who never sang without foundations.