Taizé - a unique ecumenical monastic order brings you a collection of the most beautiful chants and songs of their community, performed by the Brothers themselves and – for the first time - a hand-picked choir of young visitors on their annual pilgrimage.

What’s the Story? The Taizé community comprises about 100 brothers, who come from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds in 30 different nations.

In over 75 years Taizé, based in Burgundy, France, has grown as a place of retreat and an increasingly popular pilgrimage destination, especially for young adults. Hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world travel to Taizé each year to make music with the Brothers, pray, study and enjoy the community.

The music has proved an amazingly effective tool, as one of Taizé’s young visitors, a girl from the Netherlands, confirms. “If you sing together and you can just concentrate on the singing, you get peace in your head. And that’s a nice feeling. This album marks the very first collaboration of this world-renowned Christian community with a major label, and is set for release ahead of the special double anniversary year in 2015: the centenary of Taizé’s founder, Brother Roger, and the 75th anniversary of the community itself.