This sounds rather like a MasterChef recipe, but I couldn’t quite resist.\u00a0 I was in a bit of a silly mood the other day, and went a-Googling to try to capture a memory of some Gregorian chant I remembered from the 1980s or 1990s which had, if I recall correctly, a disco beat.<\/p>\n
I didn’t find it (so far – the quest continues.\u00a0 I do know it wasn’t Enigma<\/a>, though I had forgotten about them, and it was fun to be reminded).\u00a0 But I did find ever so many other things that people have done to Gregorian chant.\u00a0 Some of them are sillier than others<\/a>.\u00a0 And I’m amused that there is an entire band that does Gregorian style covers of everything from Simon and Garfunkel<\/a> to Rammstein<\/a> (I am not fully convinced of their actual Gregorianishness, but again, points for silliness, and they certainly sound gorgeous.).<\/p>\n Oh, my, and then there’s this<\/a>, which is kind of both awful and amazing and has everything.\u00a0 And I do mean everything.\u00a0 Including the stuff you wish it didn’t have.<\/p>\n … I get the feeling that I’ve just discovered one of those internet rabbit holes from which there is no escaping…<\/p>\n Anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n I found this rather gorgeous jazz remix of Dies Irae, which is filling Andrew with such joy that I really had to post it.\u00a0 So here it is.<\/p>\n [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Npj9Zj4djts&w=420&h=315]<\/p>\n Isn’t it stunning?\u00a0 I love the Carmina Burana-like start, and all the brass, and then the walking bass in the piano and the movement into polyphony at the end. So much fun.\u00a0 Apparently it started as a joke and then developed\u00a0 The original Dies Irae can be found here<\/a>, if you want to know how it sounded before someone decided to play with it.<\/p>\n Which is your favourite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This sounds rather like a MasterChef recipe, but I couldn’t quite resist.\u00a0 I was in a bit of a silly mood the other day, and went a-Googling to try to capture a memory of some Gregorian chant I remembered from the 1980s or 1990s which had, if I recall correctly, a disco beat. I didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,200,291,351,651,767],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dies-irae","tag-dubstep","tag-gregorian-chant","tag-jazz","tag-simon-godden","tag-what-were-they-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}