Program Note

• The title Raíces Azules (“Blue Roots”) arises from the deep connection between El Salvador’s indigo tradition and the spiritual sound world of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.

  Indigo, once called the “blue gold” of El Salvador, is more than a dye—it is a cultural heritage rooted in the land and in collective memory. Similarly, the music of Raíces Azules seeks to anchor itself in a tonal root, evoking Pärt’s tintinnabulitechnique: one voice remains bound to the fundamental arpeggio (the roots), while another unfolds in simple, transparent melody (the blue).

  The result is a soundscape suspended between the earthly and the spiritual, between the firmness of the root and the expansion of color. Just as indigo transforms fabric into a deep blue rich with subtle shades, the piece stains silence with minimalist resonances that invite contemplation.

  Raíces Azules is, at its core, a bridge between the cultural landscape of El Salvador and the meditative sonority of Arvo Pärt: music where earth and sky, the ancestral and the eternal, breathe as one.

  Juan Guerra González