[Audio] – El Kinto – “Don Pascual” (1968)
El Kinto – “Don Pascual” (1968)
I was turned onto El Kinto by the proprietor of Twisted Village in Cambridge, Mass. and I must thank him for the perfect soundtrack for a trip to the beaches of the Cape on a lovely spring day. Despite being apparent linchpins of Uruguay’s early rock/psych-candombe fusion scene, there’s seemingly very little information about them out there, other than that they really never recorded, and exist on record now only through several live-for-tv performances that were miraculously rescued and released a decade after their creation. It’s a good thing–and the music tells you all you need to know: beautiful, spare, careful melodies and harmonies, understated rythms, unadorned guitar work. [A compendium of El Kinto's known surviving recordings is in and out or print, but very worth hunting down. El Kinto is featured on one of my favorite mixes at Musicophilia.]
El Kinto was a great band!!!! One of the best Psych bands (here, people call this Candombe-Beat) in South America ever. And in the world. Yes, i think that. The composer and song writer, Edurdo Mateo, is a legend here, specially in the “Rio de la Plata” (River Plate, that means Uruguay and Argentine). If you hear all of Eduardo Mateo’s albums, you will found a mythical poet and excellent musician. You can found all of this albums in the web. Sorry for my really bad english. Greetings from Uruguay. Ernesto.
Thank you, Ernesto! (And your English is very good, no need to be sorry!) I’ve heard only a little of Edurdo Mateo’s solo work, but I need to hear more. What are your favorite albums of his? Thank you so much for listening and commenting.
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