The Choir incorporated Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Khasi in the album SHILLONG: From October, the Shillong Chamber Choir (SCC) has been on a virtual hunt of sorts. The attempt to record a hymn in ancient Aramaic — the now-dead language believed to have been spoken by Christ himself — took India’s best-known choir from Shillong to Switzerland. The result — a version of ‘Go Tell It On The Mountain’ with lyrics in English and ancient Aramaic, which dropped on December 18 — has been viewed 3.5 million times on YouTube and has furthered the choir’s reputation of multi-linguality. Not just Aramaic, ‘Come Home Christmas’, the eight-track album the hymn belongs to, incorporates Hebrew, Persian and Urdu, besides Khasi. This, the choir explained stemmed from a desire to bring back the Mediterranean in the story of Christmas and gently remind audiences that Christ was, after all, west Asian.