The songs included in this album come from diverse origins, united by the subtle narrative, poetic and musical threads all common to the Spanish repertoire. Pieces of literary traditions from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries are intermingled with others belonging to folklore, all of them taken from non-Spanish sources, and organized into five thematic groups, alternating between each other as if they were refined panels in a Renaissance altarpiece. Engaging with this music involves entering a singularly vast field, rich with centuries old intersections, borrowings and appropriations between cultures; a natural occurrence, considering the identity of the old American colonial territories and their population- their complex and mixed nature. Through this program, the artist aims to expose the varied processes of appropriation and transculturation, especially significant to the Latin American colonial repertoire, informed by the interpretive tradition that Jonatan Alvarado inherited and built between the spheres of the popular and the academic.