- Music Samples

     Here are some MP3 samples from several music groups that have recorded in Viña's studio. Just click on the MP3 title below to download the files, or to play them on your default player. Because the pieces have have been compressed to MP3 format the sound quality has been degraded.

Artist: Voces Acapella
Album: Cante Al Señor
Track: Cante Al Señor
Language: Kiche

A group from the town of Santa Cruz del Quiche, who sing accappela in four-part harmony. Most of the songs on their album are translated from English into Spanish, with this one song done in the Kiche language.

Artist: Music School Graduates, Sololá, 2003
Album: Yin Penetaq Chawach Nata’ (I come to you Lord)
Track: Nya’ Num Aquij Nata’ (I Praise You Lord)
Language: Kakchiqel
Label: Ethno-Worship

This album was the result of a music school taught at the Viña studios for young Christian urban Maya who are bi-cultural and whose music preference is more contemporary than that of their parents. Each member of the class was involved in composing lyrics and music in the Kakchiqel language for this album.

Artist: Familia Aguilar Cos
Album: Nimalaj ki' kotemal
Track: K'o' Wechabal Ruk' Ri wajaw
Language: Kiche’

This album contains original compositions, of the Aguilar Cos family. They sing in Kiche and hale from the Totonicapan area. This piece is done in a style known as “corrido”.

Artist: Music School graduates, Nebaj, 2004
Album: B’itz Tetz Tiixh tu yolb’al Naab’a’
Track: Uma’l kuxhé u Tiixhé ati
Language:Ixil
Label: Ethno-Worship

This album is the result of a music school (composition) taught by Viña staff in the town of Nebaj. Each one of the students composed a song in the Ixil language for this production. Some of the songs were recorded in Nebaj, others in the Viña studio in Sololá. This piece is sung in the Andean style, a genre that is becoming very popular in Guatemala.

Artist: DESDA
Album: Todo Por Mi (All for You)
Track: Jun ti b’ix (One Small Song)
Language:Kakchiquel

The name of this group: DESDA, uses letter from the phrase “Descendants of Abraham” (DEscendientes De Abraham). They are all members of the “Bethel” Assemblies of God church in Sololá.

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