Esperanzas y Tormentas

Esperanzas y Tormentas is not one of those songs that stand out for their length, but in those two minutes or so, something beats that makes it special: it is a piece that was trapped in time, like a musical sketch that never became what its creators imagined. Recorded at a time when Fito was still searching for his place between Argentine rock and the influences of Trova rosarina, this song is part of material that almost no one heard at the time. It was not a single, nor even a track intended for an official album, but rather a fragment from a 1988 demo called Novela, a project that never really took off.

The story behind Esperanzas y Tormentas is tied to a short film that never saw the light of day. According to accounts, Fito composed these melodies as part of the soundtrack, but financial problems with the project left everything on hold. What’s curious is that, years later, some of those ideas resurfaced elsewhere: what here sounds like an unreleased track ended up becoming songs with different names and on different albums, such as Circo Beat or Sol en Cinco. It’s as if this brief recording held the seed of something bigger, yet remained there, floating between what could have been and what ultimately was.