people make fun of the internet generation but i just learned that my parents’ gregorian chant collection that i found when i was younger was NOT just a ‘my parents are weird’ thing but actually a society-wide thing where everyone listened to gregorian chants for a couple of months. people don’t change we just now have a location to channel our weird shit.
around what year was that? that’s really weird and super interesting and i need more information.
1994. enigma slaps and i refuse to feel shame for the chants cd i bought back then.
can confirm, i also bought a gregorian chant CD in or around 1994. it was just A Thing people got into briefly.
Yeah, that was kinda weird in retrospect. @kontextmaschine or anyone else, you know anything about that?
The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos released a decades-old collection of recordings as the album Chant in 1994 and it did huge numbers (I had it!) so people tried riding that wave for a bit, buying up recordings cheap from people who had already been doing it for religious reasons and releasing them