VariousThe Paths Of Pain (The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68)

Description

Cumbia, Latin … A dazzling survey of 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.