Epic Chants by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2012 Epic Chants reworks film and pop anthems as choral, monastic settings, grand and oddly soothing.
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Posts related to Germany and German culture.
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Masters of Chant Chapter VIII by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2011 album sets pop and rock songs to choral chant, familiar tunes reshaped into something solemn.
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Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 2000 release, an atmospheric film score of mood and motion. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
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The Cross of Changes by Enigma
A late discovery of Enigma's 1993 album, a moody blend of world voices, chant, and downtempo electronica.
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Dark Side of the Chant by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2010 record, rock and pop songs reworked as choral chant, solemn and oddly moving.
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Masters of Chant Chapter II by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2001 second volume of chant covers, a richer set I came to after the first record.
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Masters of Chant Chapter VII by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2009 album recasts well-known rock and pop songs as solemn choral chant, calm and strangely moving.
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MCMXC a.D. by Enigma
Enigma's 1990 debut blends Gregorian chant with downtempo electronics, a strange hypnotic record I found years on.
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Masters of Chant by Gregorian
Gregorian's 1999 album of pop and rock songs sung as chant, a curious record I stumbled on much later.
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Seven Lives Many Faces by Enigma
Enigma's 2008 album mixes chant, beats and warm voices into a calm record about lives lived and faces worn.
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The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 1994 release, a cinematic score built to carry a story. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
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Masters of Chant Chapter VI by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2007 album turns more modern hits into solemn chant, from a Queen anthem to a Coldplay ballad.
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A Posteriori by Enigma
Enigma's 2006 album drifts into space and science, a mostly instrumental record about distance and wonder.
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Masters of Chant Chapter V by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2006 album reworks rock anthems as chant, with Sarah Brightman lending the famous opener Heroes.
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Downfall
Downfall (2004), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, shows the final days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker as the Soviet army closes in. Bruno Ganz plays Hitler. The film is based on the accounts of Traudl Junge, his last secretary, and the book by Joachim Fest.
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The Dark Side by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2004 album turns rock and gothic songs into solemn chant, finding the ache under famous music.
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Masters of Chant Chapter IV by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2003 album reworks famous pop and rock songs as solemn neo-Gregorian chant for a choir of voices.
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Voyageur by Enigma
Enigma's 2003 album drops the Gregorian chant for a brighter, more human electronic sound about travel and change.
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