Ideas don’t come out of the vacuum, and of course Tierra Fertil is no exception: it draws inspiration from great records that are just laying there —we shared some in this post—, but also from some projects that set out to unearth something lost, bring to light anonymous creations, or reveal a stories that were …
The original goal for Tierra Fértil was to make a compilation album of good unknown songs from the underground Argentine scene. Maybe two. But, as soon as we started listening to records and expanding the scope beyond our personal collections, we realized that the amount of quality material that’s sitting there with no apparent destiny …
Following the thread from part one, we keep exploring some interesting projects that are based around the concept of covers. La Celebración (Various Artists, curated by Radio Colmena) A compilation celebrating 10 years of this stronghold of independent radio. It’s worth of mention not only because some of the tracks are excellent, but also because …
Vilified by some, deified by others, covers can many times be controversial. In their cheesy version it can be a tribute band with very little of themselves on top of the original. Sometimes it can go to their head: word is that the Lennon impersonator of a Beatlesque band would carry a gun backstage of …