Various - Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 2LP xx2006 transportive documentary poems that breathe

transportive documentary poems that breathe anecdotal and impressionistic life into a sonic-social history about which most can only speculate

whispers and conversations—layering them with electronics in patient

And even as though those darker themes recur

virtually all of the elements are in place: the poetry

comforting and fading at the same time

Various - Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 2LP xx2006 transportive documentary poems that breatheOn 12 February 1949 an angry mob stormed into the centre of the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, burning the offices of the citys main newspaper and its oldest radio station to the ground. On that tragic day Radio Quito had just broadcast a local adaptation of H. G. Wellss The War of the Worlds. The novel first published in 1898 and famously adapted into a radio series by Orson Welles is one of the earliest stories to depict a conflict between mankind and