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2	Los Jaivas (1963 - now) is a well-known Chilean folk/progressive rock band.
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4	The Parra brothers (Gabriel, drums Claudio, piano, and Eduardo, electric piano) met Mario Mutis (bass) and Eduardo “Gato” Alquinta (guitars and lead vocals) in their childhood and started to play music for fun. They became prominent in Viña del Mar, playing at many gigs with a bossa-nova/bolero style. The former name of the band was High & Bass. However, most of their fans believed they were called “Jaibas” (crabs). After a while they decide to correct their name and definitely change it to Los Jaivas.
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6	After a first phase characterized by a of more tropical sound they began to blend styles, experimenting with hippie sound, progressive rock and avant-garde jazz. Their most recognized feature it’s their blending of styles with the traditional sounds -and instruments- of the region. After the military coup in Chile the band moved to Argentina, where they stayed until 1977 when they moved to France.
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8	The band formation changed in 1988, when Gabriel died in Peru. His daughter Juanita tooked his place at the drums. In January of 2003, “Gato” (the cat) Alquinta died in Coquimbo (Chile) of a heart attack. Actually, various of the children of the original members take their places and continue with the band until today.
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11	!!Albums:
12	* Los Jaivas[[note]]aka El Volantin/The Kite[[/note]] (1971)
13	* Los Jaivas[[note]]aka La Ventana/The Window or Todos Juntos/All Together[[/note]] (1973)
14	* Los Jaivas[[note]]aka El Indio/The Native[[/note]] (1975)
15	* Cancion Del Sur[[note]]Song of the South[[/note]] (1977)
16	* Los Sueños de America[[note]]The Dreams of America[[/note]] (1979)
17	* Alturas de Macchu Picchu[[note]]The Heights of Macchu Picchu[[/note]] (1981)
18	* Aconcagua (1982)
19	* Obras de Creator/VioletaParra[[note]]The Works of Violeta Parra[[/note]] (1984)
20	* Si Tu No Estas[[note]]If You're Not Here[[/note]] (1989)
21	* ''Film/PalomitaBlanca'' soundtrack[[note]]Little White Dove[[/note]] (1992)
22	* Hijos de la Tierra[[note]]Children of the Earth[[/note]] (1995)
23	* Trilogia: El Reencuentro[[note]]Trilogy: The Reunion[[/note]] (1997)
24	* Mamalluca (1999)
25	* Arrebol[[note]]Afterglow[[/note]] (2001)
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27	!!Los Jaivas provides examples of:
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29	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: "Desde ''Li-MA'' vengo a mi Machaguay..."
30	* AlbumClosure: Various examples, particularly "Final" and "Que Pena Siente El Alma".
31	* AlbumIntroTrack: "Del Aire Al Aire" and "Alumno". Also, "Cacho" features a short piano introduction.
32	** "Marcha Al Interior Del Espiritu" was purposefully chosen to be the album opener.
33	** Most of "Arauco Tiene Una Pena" is a long, epic intro to the whole album.
34	** ''Palomita Blanca'' starts with the appropiately named "Tema De Los Titulos"[[note]]Theme Song [[/note]].
35	* AndeanMusic: Many of their songs take inspiration from Andean FolkMusic.
36	* BandOfRelatives: The group is mostly consisted on Parra family, first of brothers and cousins and later sons/daughters and grandsons/granddaughters.
37	* TheBandMinusTheFace: Mostly because of the death of various of the original members, included vocalist "Gato" Alquinta.
38	* BSide: Excluding their non-album singles, their 1972 singles had two songs that didn't appear in the original version of ''La Ventana'' (but did appear on reissues). Curiously, "Todos Juntos", one of the band's classics, was originally the b-side for a less remembered song, "Ayer Cache".
39	* ConceptAlbum: Most of the albums of the band are this. A good example is "Alturas de Macchu Picchu", which is Creator/PabloNeruda's famous poem translated into a music album.
40	* CoverAlbum: ''Obras de Violeta Parra'' is entirely composed of (mostly) prog versions of Violeta Parra's songs, considered as some of the greatest Chilean compositions ever.
41	* CultSoundtrack: ''Palomita Blanca''.
42	* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Del Aire Al Aire" from Alturas de Macchu Picchu and ESPECIALLY "Arauco Tiene Una Pena" (the song is 11 minutes long and has lyrics, but it features a 6 and a half-minutes long instrumental intro unrelated to the original song).
43	* EpicRocking: At least one example per album (except for Si Tu No Estas).
44	* FaceOnTheCover: Only two examples:
45	** ''Los Sueños De America'' has a picture of the band and Brazilian musician Manduka, surrounded by art from René Olivares, who made most of the covers in the band's studio discography.
46	** ''Aconcagua'' has art of the band, also made by René Olivares.
47	* FolkMusic
48	* GriefSong: "Si Tu No Estas" and "Rosas En El Jardin", from Si Tu No Estas, are dedicated to the band's former drummer Gabriel Parra, who died in a car accident in 1988.
49	* HiddenTrack: ''Trilogia: El Reencuentro'' features the sound effects heard at the beginning of "Date Una Vuelta En El Aire" (both the original and the re-recorded version heard in this album) after 8 minutes of silence.
50	* LastNoteNightmare: "Ultimo Dia".
51	* LocationSong: "Mambo de Machaguay". A special mention is "Alturas de Macchu Picchu", recorded (in audio and video) in Macchu Picchu ''itself''.
52	* LongestSongGoesLast: ''El Indio'', ''Aconcagua'' and ''Mamalluca'' fall into this trope.
53	** ''Trilogia: El Reencuentro'' technically also falls in this, however that's because the last track, while being only 51 seconds long, features some sound effects after 8 minutes of silence, making the track 10 minutes long.
54	* LoopedLyrics: "Marcha Al Interior Del Espiritu" and "Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano De La Soledad".
55	** "Ultimo Dia" too, to some extent.
56	** After some verses at the beginning of the song, most of "Dum Dum Tambora" is just the title being sung.
57	* MinisculeRocking: "Bolerito", "El Pasillo Del Condor", "Que Pena Siente El Alma", "Alumno", and some songs in ''Palomita Blanca''.
58	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Si Tu No Estas'' features heavy use of keyboards and synthesizers.
59	* NonAppearingTitle: Many examples, notably "La Poderosa Muerte".
60	* PosthumousCollaboration: "Aguamarina" and "El Dormilón Imposible" feature Gabriel Parra on drums and were released a year after his death.
61	* ProgressiveRock: One of the most known Latin American representants of the genre.
62	* {{Remaster}}: As expected, most albums got reissued and remastered on CD at some point, most notably ''La Ventana'', where the reissues mix up the tracklist and most of them have a song missing[[note]]("Ciclo Vital", whose master tapes got lost for 20 years until 2003, where it was found in terrible conditions, but it was still put into the recent reissues)[[/note]].
63	* TheRemake: Many of their songs have been re-recorded in studio over the years, particularly ''Trilogía: El Reencuentro'', where almost every song is a re-recording of an old one with guest artists.
64	* SelfReferentialTrackPlacement: "Ultimo Dia" in ''El Volantin'', if you don't count the 26-second long album closer (which wasn't in the vinyl tracklist anyways).
65	* SelfTitledAlbum: Their first three albums (not counting Los Sueños De America).
66	* TitleTrack: Most albums from ''Cancion Del Sur'' to ''Arrebol'' have one.

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