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Digital Destinations: Special High-tech Tools for Music
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio In this section, we make it a point to guide our readers, especially those involved in music as professionals or aspiring careers, by...
When I was 10, I was with Michael Jackson at an amusement park in Munro
By Franco Contino @NTD_la Editor's Note: While we recharge our batteries at Zonagirante.com after such a strange start to the year, we asked our friends at NTD.la for permission to republish this article, originally written in 2015. We hope you enjoy it...
The three great forces that kill music (Ignore them at your own risk).
By Alfonso Pinzón @alfonsopinzonm Writing a musical summary of the most tragic year humanity has suffered since the end of World War II strikes me, frankly, with all due respect to my colleagues in this and other media outlets, as somewhat banal. Millions of...
2020, Annus horribilis
By José Gandour @gandour A friend told me that 2020 couldn't have produced better results, given that the most streamed musician on Spotify worldwide was Bad Bunny, with over eight and a half billion plays of his recordings. Not far behind is...
Maradona: Eternal thanks
By José Gandour @gandour I had a Uruguayan classmate in school, his last name was Gerstenblüth. He was a die-hard Peñarol fan. He would ask his friends in Montevideo to send him cassettes with the commentary of the "Aurinegros" matches, so he wouldn't miss a thing...
Aterciopelados: 25 years of El Dorado
By José Gandour @gandour Many may find this statement exaggerated, but I have no doubt that the most important album in the history of Colombian rock is El Dorado, by Aterciopelados. That said, let's clarify one point: If you ask me personally if...
Patricio Rey y los Redonditos de Ricota: The tragic death of that lonely Cuban cow
By Emiliano Gullo – @emilianogullo Editor's Note: Five years after reading this article, originally published on our friends' website NTD.la, we have decided to republish it and make it available to the readers of Zonagirante.com, with all the...
Music from the Park to the Home: With its back to Bogotá
By José Gandour @gandour Photos Oscar Perfer @perferoscar When the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Colombia, knowing what the virus had caused in other countries, strict quarantine and social distancing measures were taken, and businesses were closed...
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...
A text from quarantine
By José Gandour @gandour In 117 days of fluctuating quarantine in the city of Bogotá, I've only left my home once, and that was to see the doctor for a small wound on my foot. I went, was treated, returned, and went back into lockdown. It's been a long time since I've had the...
Musical Bogotá: From flourishing to catastrophe?
By José Gandour @gandour Photo @simonamalaika Let's be clear: From the capital's and Colombian state authorities, the music sector is still seen as a marginal expression of partying and revelry, and its significant contribution is not fully understood...
On the anniversary of Corazones, by Los Prisioneros…
By Loreta Neira @Loreta_L On May 20, 1990, Corazones, the fourth album by Los Prisioneros and their first without their longtime guitarist Claudio Narea, was released. Thirty years later, Chilean music websites and supplements are overflowing with...
Ode to bars (soundtrack of a nostalgia in the making)
By José Gandour @gandour It all really started in a bar, it all started with the first drinks and those conversations where we heard various musicians getting together and forming bands, or where the already established ones scheduled gigs for several groups. Love...
The Apocalypse: A Story and a Playlist for the End
By José Gandour @gandour Image by My friend Kruger It's 7:30 am Yes, Earth Day, 2022. I've been checking, with the little data left on my phone, what's new on social media, to see if anyone knows what's really going on. The...
