The Trackless Wild began with the idea of focusing on one song to build a film around, a 19th century lyric that led from the Argentine pampas back to Ireland.  In the early stages of the filming four further ballads emerged, hidden in the pages of El Monitor de la Campaña, all signed by the same curious name: A Wandering Tip.

Filmed over three years in Argentina, the film brings together song, landscape, archival material, animation, and lyrical narration to follow these ballads not as relics, but as living things, still traveling, still wandering, though their author is long gone.

Ecos Amigos: Irish Ballads on the Argentine Pampas
read the article

The Trackless Wild, Irish Song of the Pampa
listen to the album

Press Kit
download (English)
download (Español)

Both the film and album were funding by this crowdfunding campaign. The soundtrack to the film was sponsored by the Kerry County Council.

“Steer my bark, steer my bark, o'er the wild pampa main, oh ye winds be more calm there are shoals on the plain!”

A Wandering Tip, 1873