Catalogue # 4778797

‘… this young Austrian percussionist has gathered percussion, jazz, classical and world-music friends for a multi-culti, multigenerational jam with Benedictine monks more far reaching than most. The results are entertaining.’ Record Review / Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times / 24. November 2010

The “incomparable” (Wiener Zeitung) percussionist Martin Grubinger has made solo appearances at Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein, just two of the famous venues where his revolutionary artistry has left audiences cheering. Die Welt) celebrated his “mind-boggling fusion of meditation and wide-awake involvement”

In his Deutsche Grammophon debut recording, multi-percussionist Martin Grubinger seizes upon the conventions of Gregorian chant – the most archaic style of singing in the West – and makes music history by layering onto its venerable stock a tapestry of percussion sound with choir that vibrates with the elemental energy of a primary force

All tracks are new arrangements written by Martin Grubinger and other musicians performing on this recording. The base are already existing Gregorian chants sung by the monks of the Benedictine Abbey Münsterschwarzach

Among other brilliant musicians, Albrecht Mayer joins the recording as a special guest on two tracks

Using percussion’s entire sonic spectrum in ways never before employed, Martin Grubinger amalgamates colours, sounds, textures – and wit – into an experience new to our ears. With Grubinger, we explore where pulse can lead the soul