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La Tierra del Olvido (song)

January 01, 1970

"La Tierra del Olvido" ("The Land of the Forgotten") is a song by Colombian singer Carlos Vives from his seventh studio album of the same name (1995). The song was written by Iván Benavides and Vives, who handled production alongside Richard Blair. It was released as the lead single from the album in 1995. The song is a neo-vallenato number that utilizes the folk guitar and accordion, on which Vives longs for his homeland. The song received positive reactions from three music critics, being found as one of the album's catchiest tunes by them. It was a recipient at the ASCAP Latin Awards in 1996.

"La Tierra del Olvido"
The caption is taken from a poem by the Kogi people. It translates: "The sea existed first. Everything was dark. There was no sun, no moon. There were no people, no animals, no plants, only the sea, everywhere. The sea was the Mother."[1]
Single by Carlos Vives
from the album La Tierra del Olvido
Released1995
StudioCriteria Recording, Miami FL
Estudio Audiovision, Bogota, Colombia[2]
GenreNeo-vallenato
Length4:25
LabelSonolux
Songwriter(s)
  • Carlos Vives
  • Iván Benavides
Producer(s)
  • Carlos Vives
  • Richard Blair
Carlos Vives singles chronology
"Compae Chipuco"
(1995) 		"La Tierra del Olvido"
(1995) 		"Pa' Mayte"
(1995)
Music video
"La Tierra del Olvido" on YouTube

Commercially, the song peaked at number five on the Hot Latin Songs chart and number one on the Latin Pop Airplay chart in the United States. A music video for the song was filmed in Colombia in which the band performs at Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range while also depicting a love story with a couple; it was nominated for Video of the Year at the 1996 Lo Nuestro Awards. In 2015, Vives re-recorded "La Tierra del Olvido" with several fellow Colombian acts. Its music video features the musicians performing the song in various locations of Colombia and further received a nomination for Video of the Year at the 2016 Lo Nuestro Awards.

Background and composition edit

In 1993, Vives released his sixth studio album Clasicos de la Provincia, a collection of vallenato covers performed by the artist. The album was a modern pop take on the genre, which helped revitalize its popularity and sold over 2.5 million copies.[3][4] Following the album's release, Vives and his band La Provincia spent weeks in a farm conceptualizing music for Vives' next project.. The result was La Tierra del Olvido, which blends Colombian folk music with contemporary music. The title track was written by Iván Benavides and Vives, who handled production alongside Richard Blair.[5][6] Benavides commented that the song was "the result of a creative laboratory that allowed us to create a powerful concept, in which the local culture dialogued with the world".[7] Vives remarked it "was a moment to understand that we could have global hits without losing our local connection".[5]

Musically, "La Tierra de Olvido" is a neo-vallenato song that utilizes the folk guitar and accordion. According to the Miami Herald writer Fernando Gonzalez, the track sounds "closer to nuevo tango than vallenato".[3] In her book, Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom (2010), Maria Elena Cepeda wrote that the song's lyrics are allegedly about a "patient ode to a far-away lover" and that it "narrates the pain and longing provoked by distance". However, Cepeda noted that when read as a homage to Colombia, it references the country's culture.[8] Similarly, the Los Angeles Times editor Agustin Garza interpreted the song's meaning as an "aching nostalgia for his homeland".[9]

Promotion and reception edit

The song was released as the album's lead single by Sonolux Records in 1995.[10] The music video for "La Tierra del Olvido" was filmed in at the Tayrona National Natural Park in Santa Marta, Colombia and directed by Germano Saracco.[11] It was filmed with a 35 mm movie camera and digitally remastered in 2015.[7] Billboard's Leila Cobo regarded the video as a "love letter to Vives' Colombia, beautifully depicted via a love story set in some of the country’s most gorgeous vistas".[12] The video depicts Vives and his band performing the song at the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range as well as a couple "synthesizing the feeling of a wounded country and at the same time hopeful in better times".[7] Jose Vasquez of La Mezcla felt that it is "an emblematic audiovisual work from the 90s era in Colombia".[7] At the 8th Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 1996, it was nominated Video of the Year,[13] but lost to "Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo" by Ricky Martin.[14] Vives performed "La Tierra del Olvido" live at the Radio City Music Hall in 1995 and the Universal Amphitheatre in 2002.[4][9] Vives opened the 2020 Premios Nuestra Tierra awards ceremony, where he performed an interpretation of the song with Fonseca, Sebastián Yatra, Camilo, Andrés Cepeda, and Goyo.[15] A live version of the track was recorded for Vives' album Más + Corazón Profundo Tour: En Vivo Desde la Bahiá de Santa Marta (2015).[16]

Parry Gettelman of the Orlando Sentinel "complimented the song as "definitely one of the most hummable songs of the year".[17] The New York Daily News critic Mary Talbot cited "Pa' Mayte" and "La Tierra del Olvido" as La Tierra del Olvido''s "two infectious danceable Afro-Colombian numbers".[4] Likewise, an editor for RPM magazine listed the latter of the two as one of the songs from the album that "seamlessly consolidate influences and innovation without losing the crucial campfire feel".[18] The track was recognized as one of the best-performing songs of the year at the 1996 ASCAP Latin Awards.[19] In the United States, the song peaked at numbers five and eight on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Tropical Airplay charts, respectively; it also reached the top of the Latin Pop Airplay chart.[20][21][22]

2015 re-recording edit

20 years later, Vives re-recorded "La Tierra del Olvido" with eight Colombian musicians.[23] The acts include Maluma, Fanny Lu, Fonseca, "El Cholo" Valderrama, Herencia de Timbiqui, Andrea Echeverri, and Coral Group.[12] This version was included as a bonus track for Más + Corazón Profundo Tour: En Vivo Desde la Bahiá de Santa Marta.[16] The music video for the song's 2015 version was produced by ProColombia and premiered at the Expo 2015 in Milan, Italy. It features the musicians performing the song in various locations of Colombia including Bogota, the Amazon River, Valle del Cauca, and San Andrés. It received over two million views within two days of its release on YouTube and was also nominated for Video of the Year at the 28th Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 2016.[12][24]

Charts edit

Chart performance for "La Tierra del Olvido"
Chart (1995) Peak
position
US Hot Latin Songs (Billboard)[20] 5
US Latin Pop Airplay (Billboard)[22] 1
US Tropical Airplay (Billboard)[21] 8

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bierhorst, John (2002). Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. p. 316. ISBN 9780375714399. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. ^ "La Tierra del Olvido - Carlos Vives". AllMusic. from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b Gonzalez, Fernando (16 August 1995). "Vives' music still a joy, even if the production isn't". Miami Herald. p. 45. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Talbot, Mary (21 August 1995). "Vives 'vallenatos' fill Radio City". New York Daily News. p. 165. from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  5. ^ a b Cobo, Leila (4 August 2020). "Carlos Vives' 'La Tierra del Olvido' Turns 25: Juanes, Goyo, Cepeda & More on the Song's Impact". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Por Fin! El Disco de Vives". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 28 June 1995. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d Vasquez, Jose (10 August 2020). "Carlos Vives Celebrates 25 Years of 'La Tierra del Olvido'". La Mezcla. from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  8. ^ Cepeda, María Elena (2010). Musical imagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. New York: New York University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0814716922. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  9. ^ a b Garza, Agustin (30 September 2002). "Vives Keeps Fans on Their Feet". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  10. ^ La Tierra del Olvido (CD single liner notes). Carlos Vives. Sonolux Records. 1995. CDP-1488.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  11. ^ Garay, Adriana (2 August 1995). "Traera Vives 'La Tierra'". Reforma (in Spanish). p. 4.
  12. ^ a b c Cobo, Leila (3 August 2015). "Carlos Vives Revisits 'Tierra del Olvido' With a Little Help From His Friends: Watch". Billboard. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Univision Announces the Nominees for Spanish-language Music's Highest Honors Premio Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina". Univision. 27 March 1996. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  14. ^ (in Spanish). Univision. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  15. ^ Mejía, Daniel Felipe (16 May 2020). "'La Tierra del Olvido' abre los Premios Nuestra Tierra 2020" (in Spanish). La Mega. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  16. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. "Más + Corazón Profundo Tour: En Vivo Desde la Bahiá de Santa Marta - Carlos Vives". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  17. ^ Gettelman, Parry (13 October 1995). "Carlos Vives". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Carlos Vives – La Tierra del Olvido" (PDF). RPM: 15. 19 August 1996. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  19. ^ "The Third Annual El Premio ASCAP". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 38. 23 September 1995. p. 16. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  20. ^ a b "Carlos Vives Chart History (Hot Latin Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  21. ^ a b "Carlos Vives Chart History (Tropical Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  22. ^ a b "Carlos Vives Chart History (Latin Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  23. ^ "Carlos Vives lanza nueva versión de la canción La tierra del olvido". El Heraldo. 17 July 2015. from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  24. ^ Flores, Griselda (1 December 2015). "Premio Lo Nuestro 2016: Lista completa de nominados". Variety Latino (in Spanish). Penske Media Corporation. from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.

January 01, 1970
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La Tierra del Olvido The Land of the Forgotten is a song by Colombian singer Carlos Vives from his seventh studio album of the same name 1995 The song was written by Ivan Benavides and Vives who handled production alongside Richard Blair It was released as the lead single from the album in 1995 The song is a neo vallenato number that utilizes the folk guitar and accordion on which Vives longs for his homeland The song received positive reactions from three music critics being found as one of the album s catchiest tunes by them It was a recipient at the ASCAP Latin Awards in 1996 La Tierra del Olvido The caption is taken from a poem by the Kogi people It translates The sea existed first Everything was dark There was no sun no moon There were no people no animals no plants only the sea everywhere The sea was the Mother 1 Single by Carlos Vivesfrom the album La Tierra del OlvidoReleased1995StudioCriteria Recording Miami FLEstudio Audiovision Bogota Colombia 2 GenreNeo vallenatoLength4 25LabelSonoluxSongwriter s Carlos Vives Ivan BenavidesProducer s Carlos Vives Richard BlairCarlos Vives singles chronology Compae Chipuco 1995 La Tierra del Olvido 1995 Pa Mayte 1995 Music video La Tierra del Olvido on YouTube Commercially the song peaked at number five on the Hot Latin Songs chart and number one on the Latin Pop Airplay chart in the United States A music video for the song was filmed in Colombia in which the band performs at Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range while also depicting a love story with a couple it was nominated for Video of the Year at the 1996 Lo Nuestro Awards In 2015 Vives re recorded La Tierra del Olvido with several fellow Colombian acts Its music video features the musicians performing the song in various locations of Colombia and further received a nomination for Video of the Year at the 2016 Lo Nuestro Awards Contents 1 Background and composition 2 Promotion and reception 3 2015 re recording 4 Charts 5 See also 6 ReferencesBackground and composition editIn 1993 Vives released his sixth studio album Clasicos de la Provincia a collection of vallenato covers performed by the artist The album was a modern pop take on the genre which helped revitalize its popularity and sold over 2 5 million copies 3 4 Following the album s release Vives and his band La Provincia spent weeks in a farm conceptualizing music for Vives next project The result was La Tierra del Olvido which blends Colombian folk music with contemporary music The title track was written by Ivan Benavides and Vives who handled production alongside Richard Blair 5 6 Benavides commented that the song was the result of a creative laboratory that allowed us to create a powerful concept in which the local culture dialogued with the world 7 Vives remarked it was a moment to understand that we could have global hits without losing our local connection 5 Musically La Tierra de Olvido is a neo vallenato song that utilizes the folk guitar and accordion According to the Miami Herald writer Fernando Gonzalez the track sounds closer to nuevo tango than vallenato 3 In her book Musical ImagiNation U S Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom 2010 Maria Elena Cepeda wrote that the song s lyrics are allegedly about a patient ode to a far away lover and that it narrates the pain and longing provoked by distance However Cepeda noted that when read as a homage to Colombia it references the country s culture 8 Similarly the Los Angeles Times editor Agustin Garza interpreted the song s meaning as an aching nostalgia for his homeland 9 Promotion and reception editThe song was released as the album s lead single by Sonolux Records in 1995 10 The music video for La Tierra del Olvido was filmed in at the Tayrona National Natural Park in Santa Marta Colombia and directed by Germano Saracco 11 It was filmed with a 35 mm movie camera and digitally remastered in 2015 7 Billboard s Leila Cobo regarded the video as a love letter to Vives Colombia beautifully depicted via a love story set in some of the country s most gorgeous vistas 12 The video depicts Vives and his band performing the song at the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range as well as a couple synthesizing the feeling of a wounded country and at the same time hopeful in better times 7 Jose Vasquez of La Mezcla felt that it is an emblematic audiovisual work from the 90s era in Colombia 7 At the 8th Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 1996 it was nominated Video of the Year 13 but lost to Te Extrano Te Olvido Te Amo by Ricky Martin 14 Vives performed La Tierra del Olvido live at the Radio City Music Hall in 1995 and the Universal Amphitheatre in 2002 4 9 Vives opened the 2020 Premios Nuestra Tierra awards ceremony where he performed an interpretation of the song with Fonseca Sebastian Yatra Camilo Andres Cepeda and Goyo 15 A live version of the track was recorded for Vives album Mas Corazon Profundo Tour En Vivo Desde la Bahia de Santa Marta 2015 16 Parry Gettelman of the Orlando Sentinel complimented the song as definitely one of the most hummable songs of the year 17 The New York Daily News critic Mary Talbot cited Pa Mayte and La Tierra del Olvido as La Tierra del Olvido s two infectious danceable Afro Colombian numbers 4 Likewise an editor for RPM magazine listed the latter of the two as one of the songs from the album that seamlessly consolidate influences and innovation without losing the crucial campfire feel 18 The track was recognized as one of the best performing songs of the year at the 1996 ASCAP Latin Awards 19 In the United States the song peaked at numbers five and eight on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Tropical Airplay charts respectively it also reached the top of the Latin Pop Airplay chart 20 21 22 2015 re recording edit20 years later Vives re recorded La Tierra del Olvido with eight Colombian musicians 23 The acts include Maluma Fanny Lu Fonseca El Cholo Valderrama Herencia de Timbiqui Andrea Echeverri and Coral Group 12 This version was included as a bonus track for Mas Corazon Profundo Tour En Vivo Desde la Bahia de Santa Marta 16 The music video for the song s 2015 version was produced by ProColombia and premiered at the Expo 2015 in Milan Italy It features the musicians performing the song in various locations of Colombia including Bogota the Amazon River Valle del Cauca and San Andres It received over two million views within two days of its release on YouTube and was also nominated for Video of the Year at the 28th Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 2016 12 24 Charts editChart performance for La Tierra del Olvido Chart 1995 Peakposition US Hot Latin Songs Billboard 20 5 US Latin Pop Airplay Billboard 22 1 US Tropical Airplay Billboard 21 8See also editList of Billboard Latin Pop Airplay number ones of 1994 and 1995References edit Bierhorst John 2002 Latin American Folktales Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions 1st ed New York Pantheon Books p 316 ISBN 9780375714399 Retrieved 1 February 2021 La Tierra del Olvido Carlos Vives AllMusic Archived from the original on 5 February 2021 Retrieved 1 February 2021 a b Gonzalez Fernando 16 August 1995 Vives music still a joy even if the production isn t Miami Herald p 45 Retrieved 20 January 2021 a b c Talbot Mary 21 August 1995 Vives vallenatos fill Radio City New York Daily News p 165 Archived from the original on 6 February 2021 Retrieved 20 January 2021 a b Cobo Leila 4 August 2020 Carlos Vives La Tierra del Olvido Turns 25 Juanes Goyo Cepeda amp More on the Song s Impact Billboard Prometheus Global Media Archived from the original on 13 November 2020 Retrieved 1 February 2021 Por Fin El Disco de Vives El Tiempo in Spanish 28 June 1995 Retrieved 1 February 2021 a b c d Vasquez Jose 10 August 2020 Carlos Vives Celebrates 25 Years of La Tierra del Olvido La Mezcla Archived from the original on 13 December 2020 Retrieved 1 February 2021 Cepeda Maria Elena 2010 Musical imagiNation U S Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom New York New York University Press p 164 ISBN 978 0814716922 Retrieved 19 January 2021 a b Garza Agustin 30 September 2002 Vives Keeps Fans on Their Feet Los Angeles Times Retrieved 20 January 2021 La Tierra del Olvido CD single liner notes Carlos Vives Sonolux Records 1995 CDP 1488 a href Template Cite AV media notes html title Template Cite AV media notes cite AV media notes a CS1 maint others in cite AV media notes link Garay Adriana 2 August 1995 Traera Vives La Tierra Reforma in Spanish p 4 a b c Cobo Leila 3 August 2015 Carlos Vives Revisits Tierra del Olvido With a Little Help From His Friends Watch Billboard Retrieved 1 February 2021 Univision Announces the Nominees for Spanish language Music s Highest Honors Premio Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina Univision 27 March 1996 Archived from the original on 15 December 2013 Retrieved 11 June 2013 Lo Nuestro Historia in Spanish Univision Archived from the original on 26 June 2015 Retrieved 8 March 2014 Mejia Daniel Felipe 16 May 2020 La Tierra del Olvido abre los 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