Gregorian (band)

Gregorian is a band that sings the works of pop and rock music in the style of singing of Gregorian chant of the medieval monks. Although the idea for the band was born in Germany, coming all the male singers of the current occupation of Britain.

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Career

The Hamburg music producer Frank Peterson came in the early 1990s with the idea to mix conventional Gregorian music with modern popular music, and founded with Michael Cretu, the project Enigma. Under the name Gregorian he produced after the success of the first Enigma album, an album called Sadisfaction.

End of the 1990s he took up this idea again and instructed his team of producers Michael Soltau, Jan- Eric Kohrs and Carsten Heusmann to let sing current pieces of pop music of classically trained British singers. The vocal style is similar to the Gregorian chant, of which the group name is derived. Consisting of twelve singers group ushered in a new classical / pop crossover music style, referred to as Gregorian Pop or spa sound. Artverwandt is also the area of ambient or chill-out.

1999 saw the first album Masters of Chant by the record company edel music and became an international success. The following albums followed at annual intervals. Until the album Masters of Chant IV of the style of the group remained the same, only with the album The Dark Side, which was released in November 2004, the style the group developed more for rock music. 2006 published the works of Chapter V and The Christmas Chants. The latter consisted exclusively of folk, but sung by well-known rock and pop stars and Christmas carols written. On March 30, 2007 also appeared in the DVD Live Castle Cross Stone. Appeared in 2007, the project Chants & Mysteries and Masters of Chant Chapter VI. The follow-on, Chapter VII, was published on 25 September 2009. In December 2009, the band celebrated its tenth anniversary with a world tour in 2009/2010, which was continued in the fall of 2010.

Although rare in the Top Ten, Gregorian is still known to millions of viewers. The albums are sold constant over longer periods of time and can hold up to 6 months in the top 100. Through this long period Gregorian sold partly more CDs than many artists who rose into the Top Ten. On 5 November 2010 the album The Dark Side of the Chant and the following year appeared on 29 September 2011 the album Masters of Chant Chapter VIII appeared on 14 September 2012, the album Epic Chants, on which the band for the first time songs from popular movies interprets. On the CD- recording the Russian singer Eva Mali interacts with.

Song selection

In an interview, Peterson points out that the pieces selected so that they work in a limited tonal range. From the second Masters of Chant album own compositions are also the same as Moment of Peace or Make Us One ( only on the Limited Edition of Chapter II) to hear. More original compositions by the following albums were:

  • Before the Dawn, Out of the Cold ( Masters Of Chant Chapter III)
  • The Gift, The End of Days ( only to receive the Limited Edition Masters Of Chant Chapter IV)
  • Unbeliever, Gregorian Anthem ( The Dark Side )
  • The Forest ( Masters of Chant, Chapter V)
  • Footsteps in the Snow ( Christmas Chants )
  • The Circle and The Time Has Come ( Masters of Chant VI)
  • It Will Be Forgiven ( Masters Of Chant VII)
  • My Heart Is Burning, Dark Side, Black Wings, Dark Angel ( The Dark Side of the Chant )
  • World Without End ( Epic Chants )

Discography

See also List of songs from Gregorian.

Albums

Singles

Videography

  • 2001: Masters of Chant in Santiago de Compostela
  • 2001: Masters Of Chant Moments of Peace in Ireland
  • 2002: Masters of Chant Chapter III
  • 2003: Gold Edition ( Best-of- DVD)
  • 2005: The Masterpieces ( Live DVD & Best-of- studio - CD)
  • 2008: Christmas Chants & Visions - Live in Berlin ( live DVD & Studio CD)
  • 2010: Christmas Chants & Visions - Live in Berlin Deluxe Edition ( live DVD & live CD & Studio CD 2 Bonus Tracks )
  • 2010: Christmas Chants & Visions - Live In Berlin (only live DVD )
  • 2011: Masters of Chants VIII Live 2011 The Dark Side of the Chant Tour - Limited Edition ( Studio CD Live DVD)
  • 2012: Epic Chants Live in Zagreb - Limited Edition ( Studio CD Dark Side of the Chant Tour Live DVD)
  • 2013: Epic Chants Tour 2013 ' Live In Belgrade " - Deluxe Edition (CD & DVD)

Blu-rays

  • 2011: Video Anthology Volume 1 ( containing the first three videos on a disc in SD)

Awards

  • 2002: winner of the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the category of crossover with the album Masters of Chant Chapter II
  • 2009: European Sales Award ( Silver) for the albums Christmas Chants & Visions and Masters of Chant Chapter VII

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