VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE PATHS OF PAIN: THE CAIFE LABEL, QUITO, 1960-68 (2LP) VINYL ARTIST A Deeply inspired by the Pan-Africanism

Deeply inspired by the Pan-Africanism movement

and full of playful fury

Mark Deming

Final Twist

with band members explicitly warned not to tell their family or friends that they were traveling for a tour

VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE PATHS OF PAIN: THE CAIFE LABEL, QUITO, 1960-68 (2LP) VINYL ARTIST A Deeply inspired by the Pan-AfricanismEnchanting, expert guided 24 track tour of Ecuadors Caife label circa the 60s, flush with suave fusions of jazz and indigenous traditional styles running counter to post colonial, Eurocentric styles. A real holiday for the ears 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,