We will happily return to the caves (Imagining the post-pandemic world)
By José Gandour @gandour In these days of strange fatalism and apocalyptic dreams, I haven't stopped thinking about a song, recorded in the early nineties, which was very popular at the time in Bogotá's alternative scene. The song is called...
Digital Destinations: Rare Effects Pedals: The Toys of Creative Musicians
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante 💡 Distortions that defy logic Let's just say it: rock—and all its sonic relatives—would be much more boring without that arsenal of magic boxes that distort, delay, reverberate, multiply, melt, and...
Los Auténticos Decadentes / Andrés Calamaro: The idols reminisce about the old days
By José Gandour @gandour There's an old saying in the music industry that a good new song is a future good old song. It seems like a truism, but it's a good warning that foreshadows the significance of what will become a classic....
The world behind the wheel April 19, 2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Although this section focuses on highlighting the graphic design work that Latin American bands and musicians publish daily to promote their performances, we occasionally like to use this...
The world behind the wheel April 11/2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante. We slept in a lot during Holy Week and ended up with a mountain of promotional design pieces for Latin American music. Today the gallery opens up, and we can enjoy the flyers we made for past events...
The world behind the wheel March 30, 2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Some of you ask about the importance of image in music. Well, here's a story: Exactly fifty-six years ago, John, Paul, Ringo, and George arrived at photographer Michael Cooper's studio in...
The world behind the wheel March 23, 2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante One day before another anniversary of the civic-military coup in Argentina, we remember a recently released song in homage to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, written by our friend Ramiro Abrevaya: Pulsión de...
The world behind the wheel March 15, 2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante March has always been an inspiring month, both in sounds and images. It's supposed to be the end of the Southern Hemisphere summer and the retreat of the northern cold. It's the anticipation of the arrival of the northern spring and the spirit...
The world behind the wheel March 02/2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante A month begins that, although it's the third of the year, seems to be considered in many parts of the continent as the true start of a new year. The previous fifty-nine days (or sixty, if we're talking about...).
The world behind the wheel February 22/2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Seeing the events and statements from some world leaders at this point in February, more than one person is venturing to say that we won't make it to June. The most prestigious bookmakers have invited their clients...
The world behind the wheel February 07/2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagiranteA Is it too romantic and unrealistic to pretend that a poster or flyer for a music event could aspire to be a collector's item for a graphic arts enthusiast, hanging on the wall like a happy...
The world behind the wheel January 16, 2023
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante 2023 begins and the world remains full of color. For now, we continue to escape the darkness and avoid living on a planet populated by irremediable shadows. There is color, and it continues to accompany music in its promotion....
The world behind the wheel December 14, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante This is the last installment of this section for the year. We're pleased to reach this point having achieved public recognition for our love of graphic arts related to music. Although there are increasingly...
The State and Music: Let's Talk About Decisions and Consequences
By José Gandour @gandour Let me tell you the following, to give you some context for what I'm going to talk about: I believe in a strong and present State where the population, and especially the most disadvantaged, need it. I believe in the State as a vital element for...
The world behind the wheel November 23, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante We've fallen in love with apps that create images using artificial intelligence. When there's not much else to do, we go to one of those websites and start messing with our brains, and...
