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Sample Track 1:
"De Donde Vengo" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 2:
"Flor de Kikuyo" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 3:
"Peguche" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 4:
"Sonando con Quito" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 5:
"Churay para los Yarina" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 6:
"Esta Historia no es de Risa" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 7:
"Diva" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 8:
"Taita Imbabura" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 9:
"Tarde de Lluvia en Guapulo" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 10:
"Hasta Siempre" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 11:
"Sanjuaneando" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 12:
"Ausencia" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
Sample Track 13:
"Caballito Azul" from Alex Alvear, Equatorial
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Alex Alvear, Equatorial
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ALEX ALVEAR/Equatorial:  Ok world beat fans, what do we know about Ecuadorian music?  Not much since life there seems to be so bad that the locals hate it.  Alvear didn’t get in touch with his own heritage until he fled the country, learned music at Berklee and eventually found out how much his local sounds from the general area had to do with all the music he was attracted to.  A musical travelogue that also serves as an emotional biography, this set has a lot of elemental fusion at it’s core but it also has enough indigenous style that you have a whole new sonic vector to explore.  A rocker with a jazz attitude, this is a cat that doesn’t recognize boundaries at a lot of levels so anyone that digs the mixmaster effect will enjoy this in many ways. 11/25/07 >> go there
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