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    The Paths Of Pain: The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68Various Artists

    Honest Jon's Records
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    • – Biluka y Los Canibales - Cotopaxi
    • – Duo Mendoza-Ortiz - Cansados Pies Corazon Mio
    • – Mendoza Suasti - Ingratitud
    • – Olga Gutierrez - Dulce Mirada
    • – Los Inaquingas - Ensonacion
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    • – Los Tres Ases - Lejos De Ti
    • – Conjunto Caife - Vaca Lechera
    • – Benitez y Valencia - Amor De Mi Linda Guambra
    • 1. Biluka y Los Canibales - Cotopaxi
    • 2. Duo Mendoza-Ortiz - Cansados Pies Corazon Mio
    • 3. Mendoza Suasti - Ingratitud
    • 4. Olga Gutierrez - Dulce Mirada
    • 5. Los Inaquingas - Ensonacion
    • 6. Hermanos Castro - Taita Salasaca
    • 7. Benitez y Valencia - Desesperacion
    • 8. Los Tres Ases - Lejos De Ti
    • 9. Conjunto Caife - Vaca Lechera
    • 10. Benitez y Valencia - Amor De Mi Linda Guambra
    • 11. Biluka y Los Canıbales - El Anacu de Mi Guambra
    • 12. Lucho Munoz - Pasional
    • 13. Benitez y Valencia - Carnaval de Guaranda
    • 14. Los Tres Ases - La Naranja
    • 15. Duo Aguayo Huayamabe - Mi Dulce Amor
    • 16. Hermanas Mendoza Suasti - Sangrante Corazon
    • 17. Benitez y Valencia - Plegaria
    • 18. Hermanos Castro - Los Huachis
    • 19. Raul Emiliani y Hector Bonilla - Chola Cuencana
    • 20. Biluka y Los Canibales - Cashari Shunguito
    • 21. Hermanas Mendoza Suasti - Longuito Enamorado
    • 22. Duo Aguayo Huayamabe - Desde que tu te Fuiste
    • 23. Segundo Bautista - Sendero del Dolor
    • 24. Benitez y Valencia - Corazon Que No Olvida

    Honest Jon's survey the last, bohemian flowering of the so-called Golden Era of Ecuadorian musica national, before the oil boom and incoming musical styles - especially cumbia - swept away its achingly beautiful, phantasmagorical, utopian juggling of indigenous and mestizo traditions.

    Forms like the tonada, albazo, danzante, yaravi, carnaval, and sanjuanito; the yambo, with roots in pre-Incan ritual, and the pasillo, a take on the Viennese waltz, arriving through the Caribbean via Portugal and Spain.

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