Huehuetenango - Jonatan Alvarado & Ariel Abramovich

Music that connected continents before anyone thought of the word 'globalization' It seems like a find of Indiana Jones: the Huehuetenango manuscript from Northern Guatemala, or fifteen volumes of polyphony and Gregorian chant recorded between 1582 and 1635. The community that copied, preserved, and enriched this music with its own compositions lived isolated between the highest mountain ranges of Central America, far from colonial centers. From the more than 350 works, dream duo Alvarado & Abramovich fished out the mass parts, motets, chansons, and villancicos that best illustrate how Europe sounded on the other side of the Atlantische Oceaan.