ossory

Quito, a city founded on ashes and named for the equatorial line it misses by two hundred and forty metres, run start to finish in this fusion — Carcelén to Quitumbe, Mariscal to Guápulo, Cumbayá to San Roque — with a basilica kept deliberately unfinished so the world won't end, and a Virgin statue with her back to the south.

L117 The Local Anthems Andean Folk Fusion

The Middle Of The World Mas O Menos

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Style

A fast, minor-key sanjuanito-pasacalle fusion with a yumbo drive at 152 BPM shifting from a hard 2/4 into 6/8 at the breaks, built on deep bombo and hand percussion, rondador and pingullo answering charango, requinto and street brass, with alternating male and female leads and a joyful street-chorus crowd.

Tags

  • #Quito
  • #Ecuador
  • #MitadDelMundo
  • #Sanjuanito
  • #Pasacalle
  • #Yumbo
  • #AndeanMusic
  • #FolkFusion
  • #LatinFolk
  • #EcuadorianMusic
  • #CityAnthem
  • #SatiricalSong
  • #Guapulo
  • #Panecillo
  • #LaRonda
  • #originalsong
  • #ossory