This record is an imaginary journey through time, from 1936 to 1939, and space, from Asturia to La Mancha, from the lands of the Basques to Andalusia, from Castille to Estremadura. Throughout it appear and vanish the shadowy figures of the Republican Militiamen, the International brigades, la Pasionaria, Durruti, Federico Garcia Lorca. The verses of Louis Aragon could serve as an introduction and a conclusion: I remember a tune that one could not hear Without the heart beating and the blood catching fire, Without the fire rekindling like a heart beneath the ashes And one knew at last why the sky is blue.
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