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Anyone remember the Benedictine Monks from Spain? For those of you that enjoyed this type of music I recommend a CD called Ancient Echoes. It's Russian Catholic Church music and it's the most amazing thing I've ever heard in terms of choral music.

Just thought I'd share. You can sample it out here on amazon.com and buy the CD used from vendors through amazon.com for under $4! This is an older CD but it's a timeless style of music anyway. This is all done a capella. I really like 90% of this album. Maybe 1 or 2 songs I'm not too crazy about.

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Echoes/dp/B000003FTV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219201131&sr=1-1

Awesome man....
You should check out the Valaam Choir from Russia...
The most amazing Orthodox chant out there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_kanfUmVE

I really like world music like this also .. one of my favorites is the Bulgarian State Choir .. they have many CD's with the name Le Mystere des voix Bulgares (the Mysterious Voice of Bulgaria ) ..



Their music is kind of hypnotic and other worldly. The last song on the video is funny .. they are good sports .. I don't think you'll find that one on their CD's though

here is another ..



http://www.amazon.com/Myst%C3%A8re-Voix-Bulgares-Vol-2/dp/B000005IZF/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219213880&sr=1-4

muchmorethanmuscle said It's Russian Catholic Church music and it's the most amazing thing I've ever heard in terms of choral music.

That is beautiful by the way

Thanks guys for your input. I'm looking up your referrals and am liking them. Since I'm getting responses here's another one.

It's music in the style of Hildergard von Bingen. She was way ahead of her time and her music was inspired by her own thoughts as to how it would sound to hear angels sing. Hence, the burgeoning of her own invention for this type of choral music. These are songs sung by females. I think it's really great too.

Here's one CD I purchased "Chanticles of Ecstasy."
I really like this one too.
http://www.amazon.com/Hildegard-von-Bingen-Canticles-Ecstasy/dp/B000001TYF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219230705&sr=1-2


This one is more new age like but has the style of Hildergard's music.
I've had this one since 1994 when it first came out. You can by this one used on amazon.com for less than $2!
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Music-Hildegard-von-Bingen/dp/B000002SL6/ref=pd_sim_m_2

muchmorethanmuscle saidThanks guys for your input. I'm looking up your referrals and am liking them. Since I'm getting responses here's another one.

http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Music-Hildegard-von-Bingen/dp/B000002SL6/ref=pd_sim_m_2

These too are beautiful also. But hey whats with that Nun? Is she teaching geometry in parochial school? Watch that ruler now! lol

Thanks for the recommendations! I love early music! Once, when I was on my way to an oral exam for my teaching credential (and feeling it) I popped in The Tallis Scholars' Cardoso Requiem CD and time and space expanded such that the here and now was swept away like dust (except for the driving!)

Sorry, there are no samples on the Amazon page:

http://www.amazon.com/Cardoso-Requiem/dp/B00005ATD9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219292235&sr=1-1

ActiveAndFit said

muchmorethanmuscle saidThanks guys for your input. I'm looking up your referrals and am liking them. Since I'm getting responses here's another one.

http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Music-Hildegard-von-Bingen/dp/B000002SL6/ref=pd_sim_m_2

These too are beautiful also. But hey whats with that Nun? Is she teaching geometry in parochial school? Watch that ruler now! lol

LOL...Hildergard was a nun that spent many hours in a tower reading, writing music, etc. So I think it's sort of a tribute to what it was like to be her several hundred years ago.