Chant: Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

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Is anyone aware of these Gregorian chants? I found a cassette copy at Goodwill last night and looked up information while I was in the store, and I suppose it was a pretty big deal when it was re-released in the 90s. The only other post about it on the forum is mine from the “what song are you listening to” thread, so I’m wondering if anyone here has heard it.
 
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Yes, they were kind of a big deal. 😉 They had several releases, I have a couple on CD. I bet you can find used ones on Amazon very inexpensively.
 
If you go to Amazon and search on “gregorian chant silos”, you can find several CDs featuring these monks. I bought the Chant CD back when it was still on the charts, and since then I have picked up several others of their CDs.
 
This reminds me of people tweeting, “Wow! Kanye West has a great eye for talent! He just discovered an awesome unknown named Paul McCartney!” 😛

Heehee… yeah. The Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos were really big in the mid 90’s. They expected to sell, like, 10,000 copies of their first Chant record, but it ended up peaking at Number 3 on the Billboard 200, going Double Platinum, and sold about six million copies worldwide.

The interesting thing was that some of the recordings on the initial “Chant” were actually recorded over a couple of decades. So the music was always good, but it didn’t get its success until Angel Records marketed it in the mid-90’s.There was Chant, Chant II, Chant III, and Chant Noel, but the Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos have put out a pretty good library of recordings.
 
I think my mother had chant ii when I was growing up, my mother is actually the reason I listen to Gregorian chant.
 
I think my favorite Gregorian Chant was a CD I got from the library. I think it was the “Choralschola of the Niederaltaicher Scholaren”. It had a really awesome Credo (Mass of the Angels, I think) that had a very clear and distinctive “Deum de Deo, Lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero…” I tried finding it again from the library, but the disk had gotten lost… and when I tried ordering it from Amazon, as best as I could remember, it didn’t seem to be the same disk. I can find the right Credo, but all the versions I find seem to lack that clarity and distinctiveness— I could just listen to that one phrase on repeat for ages, if I could find it again. 🙂

Sigh. You know how it is when you just have bits and pieces in your head, but you can’t quite find what you’re looking for. 🙂
 
I know what you mean. I remember some rock songs from around the turn of the (21st) century that I can find nothing about it. I know they exist. I heard them on the radio. The interwebs are a wonderous tool, but google doesn’t have all the answers.
 
the chant of the Monks of Santo Domingo are good but at times some of them sound like old monks trying tried best to sing & are almost on the verge of crying 😛 there are some other good Gregorian chant music CD’s available by other monks, nuns & choirs… most of the orders following the Benedictine tradition still have Gregorian chant as part of their offices etc & some have come out with CD’s for the general public…
 
I like the fact they sound like that. Humans are emotional creatures.
 
well it sounds more like struggling than emotional lol 😛 😃 I have heard that Carthusians have to sing the Office in a tone as if they are lamenting but Benedictines have no such rule
 
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