It has been 8 years since Guardarraya last released an album. The new album title “Me Fui a Volver”, seems entirely fitting given their long absence – a nonsensical idiom that has been a staple of colloquial talk in Quito-, it roughly translates to “I went to return”.

Jazz the Roots take us on a cosmic trip to “Lúpiter”, a planet of dense rhythms and grandiose, sprawling soundscapes.

Marimba del Pacífico is a celebration of the shared afro tradition that is present in Ecuador and Colombia, told through the ancestral instrument that is its namesake (and which was in 2015 named by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.)

Hiato is an electronic duo whose energetic live performances have gained them a lot of recopgnition from the local public.

Delightful retro single “Disco” from Ecuadorian newcomers Boris Vian.

Classic rock n’ roll, psychedelic cumbia, hip-hop. It’s all in Hombre Pez’ latest.

Drawing from late 90s grunge and post-rock and stoner rock, Nuevo Bravo is a brand new band from Ecuador’s capital, Quito.

Cementerio de Elefantes is melodic, psychedelic, and indubitably tinted by the sonority of the Spanish language.

Pánico has remained, through the years, one of the more interesting (and prolific) projects in the local scene.

Ecuadorian group Morfeo delve even deeper into expertimental rock with more and more electronic elements – and sometimes nightmarish atmosphere.