Name: V.A. - The Paths Of Pain The Caife Label Quito 1960-68
Brand: Honest Jon's
SKU: 865810v1
Price: 27.99 EUR
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V.A.

The Paths Of Pain The Caife Label Quito 1960-68

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

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Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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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.

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.

Exhumations like the astoundingly out-there organist Lucho Munoz, from Panama, toying with the expressive and technical limits of his instrument; and our curtain-raiser Biluka, who travelled to Quito from Rio, naming his new band Los Canibales in honour of the late-twenties Cannibalist movement back home, dedicated to cannibalising other cultures in the fight against post-colonial, Eurocentric hegemony. He played the ficus leaf, hands-free, laying it on his tongue. One leaf was playable for ten hours. He spent long periods living on the street, in rags, when he wasn’t in the CAIFE studio recording his chamber jazz-from-space, with the swing, elegance and detail of Ellington’s small groups, crossed with the brassy energy of ska — try Cashari Shunguito — and an enthralling other-worldliness.
Utterly scintillating guitar-playing, prowling double bass, piercing dulzaina, wailing organ, rollicking gypsy violin, brass, accordion, harps, and flutes. Bangers to get drunk and dance to. Slow songs galore to drown your sorrows in, with wildly sentimental lyrics drawn from the Generacion Decapitada group of poets (who all killed themselves); expert heart-breakers, with the raw passion of the best rembetica, but reined in, like the best fado.

Sumptuously presented, in a gatefold sleeve and printed inners, with a full-size, full-colour booklet, with wonderful photos and excellent notes. Limpid sound, too, courtesy of original reels in Quito, and Abbey Road in London; pressed at Pallas.

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Honest Jon’s Records is a London-based record label founded by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield in 2002 and run in cooperation with Damon Albarn. It emerged from the 1974 by »Honest« Jon Clare founded record store of the same name in Portobello Road in the London borough Ladbrock Grove. The record store is specialized on jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and music from the most remote countries of the world. Honest Jon’s is clearly focused on collecting records that are rare or bizarre or special or all at once. This applies to the label as well as to the record store. For the makers digging is a technique of cultural preservation. First the label attracted attention with its series »London Is The Place For Me«, a retrospective to the music of the black population of the British capital since 1945. Meanwhile they released compilations which declared the niche to be something special like Britsh folk, Soca aus Port of Spain or a documentation of the calypso songs of Jamaican immigrants from the fifties to Afro-Cuban jazz how it is played in the Bronx. They also rediscovered artist like Moondog, Maki Asakawa, Bettye Swann and Cedric Im Brooks & The Light. With Candi Staton, Actress, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Mark Ernestus, Trembling Bells, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Simone White, Shackleton, Michael Hurley, Terry Hall or the Moritz Von Oswald Trio quite a lot well-known and talented contemporary artists are signed to that label. So here it is about nothing less than the salvation of the raw quality of music.

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