Acoustic Roots

Jonatan Alvarado comes from Argentina. In the past he performed in the programme De Musyck Kamer, a Concertzender programme on Early Music. When he played early Argentinian folk music, we were deeply moved by his voice and guitar playing and immediately thought: Jonatan belongs in Acoustic Roots. Finally this has come true.

The world music genre is a denominator for a broad musical landscape: folk music with its roots in cultures and time periods. Sometimes these roots go back so deep and so far, that perhaps it will cause musicologists to shake their heads, asking: where’s the line between Early Music and early Folk Music?

Jonatan started his studies at the Martinez Zarate Conservatory in his birthplace Mercedes, Buenos Aires. Shortly after that, he started studying for his Bachelor’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting and Composition at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina. He took some singing lessons at the same time, and he discovered and embraced Early Music when singing Bach motets. He assembled a baroque orchestra and performed music by Charpentier, Scarlatti, Telemann and Bach. He also played in the first Argentinian authentic performance of the St John Passion.

After this he settled in The Netherlands and now he is studying singing and Basso Continuo for plucked instruments at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He also founded an ensemble here: Seconda Prat!ca. Their first album was recently released.

Jonatan Alvarado performed for us in the Kargadoor, singing and playing baroque guitar in those early Argentinian folk songs mostly. Purity to the core, an acoustic unity: Acoustic Roots by Jonatan Alvarado.

1.  Codex Zuola: Que importa que yo lo calle

2.  Codex Zuola: Pajarillo fugitivo
3.  Codex Zuola: Hijos de Eva tributarios
4.  Oh pajarillo que cantas (Argentinian traditional song)
5.  El pajarillo (Argentinian traditional song)
6.  Codex Zuola: A cierto galán su dama
7.  Rio de Sevilla (Anonymous)
8.  Ribericas del rio de Manzanares
9.  Codex Zuola: Entre dos álamos verdes
10. Malograda fuentecilla
11. Repicaban las campanillas
12. Etienne Moulinié: Orillas del claro Tajo