The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 3 April 2025.

3 Apr 2025 Lent 4 Thurs

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Friday in the 4th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 4 April 2025. 

4 Apr 2025 Lent 4 Fri

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 5 April 2025

5 Apr 2025 Lent 4 Sat

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Monday in the 5th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 7 April 2025.

7 Apr 2025 Lent 5 Mon

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 9 April 2025

9 Apr 2025 Lent 5 Wed

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Friday in the 5th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 11 April 2025.

11 Apr 2025 Lent 5 Fri

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Saturday in the 5th Week of Lent.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 12 April 2025.

12 Apr 2025 Lent 5 Sat

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Tuesday in Holy Week.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 15 April 2025.

15 Apr 2025 Holy Tues

I am not a professional but here I try to send my love to you through cables  

blown off

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Easter Friday. 
Recorded live at Southgate House on 25 April 2025.

25 Apr 2025 Easter Fri

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing a Gregorian Chant Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 30 April 2025.

30 Apr 2025 Requiem Pope Francis

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for the Memoria of St Joseph the Worker.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 1 May 2025.

1 May 2025 St Joseph

Recorded live 04/05/2025 @ Finistere

Dark tekno live track built around the Dies Irae theme.
No monks were harmed during the recording of this track

Latin lyrics : "Dies iræ, dies illa, Solvet sæclum in favilla" (The day of wrath, that day, will dissolve the world in ashes)

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Performed live (hardware machines, no DAW) with :
- Novation Circuit Tracks
- Novation Circuit Rhythm
- Arturia Microfreak
- Soundcraft Notepad-FX8)

Genre : Free Tekno / Tek Tribe / Tribetek / Tribe / Darktek / Dub Tek / Whatevatek.. 140BPM







BRoKKR - Dominus Irae (Tekno Live Dawless)

The Community of St Gregory the Great sing the Gregorian Chant Mass for Monday in the 3rd Week of Easter.
Recorded live at Southgate House on 5 May 2025.

5 May 2025 Easter 3 Mon

The haunting sound of shakuhachi flutes, played by Zen Buddhist monks in Kyoto with each note representing a resonant, meditative breath, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/05/japan-japon-japanese-masterpieces-for.html

Japanese  Masterpieces for the Shakuhachi

Monks sing secret psalms, preserving precious knowledge across the long unlit night

The Forbidden Monastery

The Monks of the Monastery are not Warriors Bold nor Brash

Monks of the Monastery

This track bears the heavy imprint of an arts and history/archaeology collective in which I piloted and performed quite a few of the Doin Different ballads prior to their publication. 'Diggers' achieved considerable things in its one year life through 2012, a sell out gig at Binham Village Hall on July 7 celebrating Boudicca’s Country from the Bronze Age to the Ballad Age combining practitioners in archaeology, theatre, folk ballads, music and visual arts and with a launch on the nearby Bronze Age barrow known as Fiddler’s Hill probably its apotheosis. ( See DD1 track 1). We even published a touring book combining visual art, history and a dramatic monologue the following September, the first (and as it turned out last) of a planned series. The troubled life and fabulous stormy times of this magnificent, doom-haunted ‘Notre Dame of Norfolk’ - Binham Priory - is a fitting memorial for the starry project’s Icarus-like ambitions, the unachieved parts of which the Doin Different project went on to achieve ( or not) with different personnel.
lyrics
The Ballad of Binham Priory

Call their names from the rubble: Alexander de Langley,
Mad as a scholar – ‘here’.
William de Somerton, William Dyxwell,
Priors and bad boys - ‘here.’

A mad monk in solitary, buried in chains,
Tortured to brake his devil;
Alchemy funded by holy sales,
Double and bubble and trouble;

Monks eating bran and drinking rain
Till King John raised the siege;
A wanderlust prior, administ-truant,
Deposed and then reprieved.

Chorus
‘As the green of summer breaks in spring
From hedgerow, field and tree
So let our souls in freedom burst
From the walls of this Priory.’

The peasants were revolting here
In 1381
When Master Lister led the charge
That started all the fun.

‘Enough!’ he cried, ‘of fattened bishops
Fed on Priory rolls,
Enough of tenants, rents and lords
And serfdom’s heavy loads.’


The old order stood another six generations,
Its dead Norms carved in art
Then the ghost of Lister came back to haunt
The Priory’s stony heart.

‘Whitewash these saints from the walls of the nave,
A clear new page for the Word,
Your bishops’ bank is ruined now
There are no serfs to herd!

Chorus

This high Notre Dame of Norfolk shrunk
To a nave-sized Parish Church,
Abandoned wings sold off for stone
To men scarce more than serfs

But when Paston quarried the haunted pile
To build a house in the grounds,
A wall killed a workman and none to this day
Will build in Priory bounds.

Three miles to the West, Roman relics and smoke
Rise again from Celtic Earth
Like the re-appeared saints whose rooted gaze
Reclaims the walls of this church.

‘Let the holy rain of autumn fall
From the solitary tree
And the grass grow wild and the four winds blow
Through the grounds of this Priory.’

© Gareth Calway 2015, first published in the Poppyland volume Doin Different.
credits
released October 31, 2023
Words and music by Peacock's Tale

From our album Done Different https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/done-different

The Ballad of Binham Priory

BRoKKR / HardKorrigans ^ Full Dawa Tribe

Forging noises dawlessly with hardware machines, to craft stories during live sets and jams. 
My wubs are bio, no fertilizers, no additives.

Current gear : 
- Novation Circuit Rhythm
- Novation Circuit Tracks
- Arturia MicroFreak
- Pocket Operators (12-20-32-33-128)
- Soundcraft Notepad 8FX

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Making 85% of music "Répétitive, Abrutissante et Peu Créative" since 2023

Centuries of Benedictine heritage in the heart of Somerset. Join us to hear the monks reading the Gospel and delivering Homilies each week. For more visit www.downsideabbey.co.uk

A marriage (and we are actually married, 45 years so far) of melody and rhythm. We do folk, indie, Americana, Norfolk noir, beat poems &  ghazals. Traditional tunes with contemporary beats. Music videos  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8wV0-DNiFs1R5G2VSytBQ
Maz lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar. Gaz vocals, voice, bass, drums & percussion, harmonium, recorders, lyre harp, field recordings.

a/k/a CHRIS CYPHER
[FUTURE_WITCH\TRICK]
author of 'LANTERNGLASS'
and
'an UNASSEMBLED VERSE'
verseweld.substack.com

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