Benítez Y Valencia - Impossible Love Songs from Sixties Quito (2021) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Benítez Y Valencia
- Title: Impossible Love Songs from Sixties Quito
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Honest Jon's Records
- Genre: Folk, World
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 1:01:41
- Total Size: 252; 500 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Gonzalo Benitez and Luis Alberto Valencia were kingpins of the musica nacional movement in Ecuador. Check them out on the cover, on a rooftop in Quito’s Old Town, surveying their dominion.
In 1970, when Valencia collapsed onstage during a performance of the yaravi Desesperacion — ‘My heart is already in ashes’ — and died four days later, aged 52, his coffin was carried through those city streets on the shoulders of a throng of his fans.
They began singing as a duo in their mid-teens. During twenty-eight years together they recorded more than six hundred songs, for Discos Ecuador, Nacional, Granja, Ortiz, Rondador, Onix, Fuente, Real, Tropical, Fadisa, RCA Victor — and of course CAIFE.
Their exquisitely romantic harmonising is a sublime blend of collected forbearance and abject self-annihilation, underpinned and elaborated by the heart-piercing, improvisatory guitar-playing of Bolivar Ortiz. Effectively the third member of the group. ‘El Pollo’ sets the tone and intensity for everything that follows: listen to his soloing at the start of our opener, Lamparilla.
Musically a pasillo — a cross between a Viennese waltz and the indigenous yaravi rhythm — Lamparilla draws its verses from a poem by Luz Martinez from Riobamba, written in 1918 when she was 15, under the influence of Baudelaire and Mallarme. Another pasillo here, Sombras (‘Shadows’) is one of the best-loved songs in the musica nacional canon, setting poetry about undercover sex and lost love by the Mexican poet Maria Pren, which was considered pornographic on publication in 1911. ‘When oblivion comes / I will lose you to the shadows / To the hazy gloom / Where one warm afternoon I laid bare my unbridled feelings for you / Never again will I search out your eyes / Or kiss your mouth.’
And Benitez & Valencia looked back still further, to the indigenous roots of Ecuadorian music, as the key to its future. Carnaval de Guaranda is their take on a song dating back to the era of the Mitimaes, a broad group of Bolivian tribes conquered by the Incas and displaced to Ecuador. ‘Impossible love of mine / I love you for being impossible / Who loves what is impossible / Is the truest lover.’
Fiercely beautiful, desolate music from the shadowy mists of time, the lip of oblivion, for anyone who had a heart, for anyone who ever dreamed.
1.01 - Benítez Y Valencia - Lamparilla (2:53)
1.02 - Benítez Y Valencia - Suplica (2:46)
1.03 - Benítez Y Valencia - Tormentos (2:38)
1.04 - Benítez Y Valencia - Lindos Ojos (2:48)
1.05 - Benítez Y Valencia - Quimera (2:50)
1.06 - Benítez Y Valencia - Corazon Que No Olvida (2:29)
1.07 - Benítez Y Valencia - Las Tres Marias (2:44)
1.08 - Benítez Y Valencia - Dicha (2:54)
1.09 - Benítez Y Valencia - Mi Panecillo Querido (2:32)
1.10 - Benítez Y Valencia - Sombras (2:41)
1.11 - Benítez Y Valencia - Amor de Mi Linda Guambra (2:42)
1.12 - Benítez Y Valencia - Vestida de Azul (2:29)
1.13 - Benítez Y Valencia - Amor en Tus Ojos (2:50)
1.14 - Benítez Y Valencia - Arbol Frondoso (2:37)
1.15 - Benítez Y Valencia - Carnaval de Guaranda (2:45)
1.16 - Benítez Y Valencia - Plegaria (2:39)
1.17 - Benítez Y Valencia - Tus Ojeras (3:05)
1.18 - Benítez Y Valencia - Limosna (3:01)
1.19 - Benítez Y Valencia - Invocacion Sentimental (2:52)
1.20 - Benítez Y Valencia - Nocturno (2:30)
1.21 - Benítez Y Valencia - Desesperacion (3:38)
1.22 - Benítez Y Valencia - Imploracion Indigena (3:19)
In 1970, when Valencia collapsed onstage during a performance of the yaravi Desesperacion — ‘My heart is already in ashes’ — and died four days later, aged 52, his coffin was carried through those city streets on the shoulders of a throng of his fans.
They began singing as a duo in their mid-teens. During twenty-eight years together they recorded more than six hundred songs, for Discos Ecuador, Nacional, Granja, Ortiz, Rondador, Onix, Fuente, Real, Tropical, Fadisa, RCA Victor — and of course CAIFE.
Their exquisitely romantic harmonising is a sublime blend of collected forbearance and abject self-annihilation, underpinned and elaborated by the heart-piercing, improvisatory guitar-playing of Bolivar Ortiz. Effectively the third member of the group. ‘El Pollo’ sets the tone and intensity for everything that follows: listen to his soloing at the start of our opener, Lamparilla.
Musically a pasillo — a cross between a Viennese waltz and the indigenous yaravi rhythm — Lamparilla draws its verses from a poem by Luz Martinez from Riobamba, written in 1918 when she was 15, under the influence of Baudelaire and Mallarme. Another pasillo here, Sombras (‘Shadows’) is one of the best-loved songs in the musica nacional canon, setting poetry about undercover sex and lost love by the Mexican poet Maria Pren, which was considered pornographic on publication in 1911. ‘When oblivion comes / I will lose you to the shadows / To the hazy gloom / Where one warm afternoon I laid bare my unbridled feelings for you / Never again will I search out your eyes / Or kiss your mouth.’
And Benitez & Valencia looked back still further, to the indigenous roots of Ecuadorian music, as the key to its future. Carnaval de Guaranda is their take on a song dating back to the era of the Mitimaes, a broad group of Bolivian tribes conquered by the Incas and displaced to Ecuador. ‘Impossible love of mine / I love you for being impossible / Who loves what is impossible / Is the truest lover.’
Fiercely beautiful, desolate music from the shadowy mists of time, the lip of oblivion, for anyone who had a heart, for anyone who ever dreamed.
1.01 - Benítez Y Valencia - Lamparilla (2:53)
1.02 - Benítez Y Valencia - Suplica (2:46)
1.03 - Benítez Y Valencia - Tormentos (2:38)
1.04 - Benítez Y Valencia - Lindos Ojos (2:48)
1.05 - Benítez Y Valencia - Quimera (2:50)
1.06 - Benítez Y Valencia - Corazon Que No Olvida (2:29)
1.07 - Benítez Y Valencia - Las Tres Marias (2:44)
1.08 - Benítez Y Valencia - Dicha (2:54)
1.09 - Benítez Y Valencia - Mi Panecillo Querido (2:32)
1.10 - Benítez Y Valencia - Sombras (2:41)
1.11 - Benítez Y Valencia - Amor de Mi Linda Guambra (2:42)
1.12 - Benítez Y Valencia - Vestida de Azul (2:29)
1.13 - Benítez Y Valencia - Amor en Tus Ojos (2:50)
1.14 - Benítez Y Valencia - Arbol Frondoso (2:37)
1.15 - Benítez Y Valencia - Carnaval de Guaranda (2:45)
1.16 - Benítez Y Valencia - Plegaria (2:39)
1.17 - Benítez Y Valencia - Tus Ojeras (3:05)
1.18 - Benítez Y Valencia - Limosna (3:01)
1.19 - Benítez Y Valencia - Invocacion Sentimental (2:52)
1.20 - Benítez Y Valencia - Nocturno (2:30)
1.21 - Benítez Y Valencia - Desesperacion (3:38)
1.22 - Benítez Y Valencia - Imploracion Indigena (3:19)
Year 2021 | Folk | Latin | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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