A group of monks from a 12th century monastery just outside Vienna have secured a lucrative recording contract with Universal Music, the label for pop stars such as Amy Winehouse and Eminem, a record executive said Wednesday.
The monks -- from the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross) in the Vienna woods, 15 kilometres (10 miles) from the Austrian capital -- are scheduled to go into the recording studio next week, with the release date set for the summer, Universal executive Tom Lewis told AFP.
Universal had been looking for a group to record some Gregorian chant, one of the oldest surviving forms of western music dating as far back as the 10th century, after detecting a resurgence of interest in plainchant thanks to a best-selling computer game, Halo, Lewis explained.
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